Hudson Girls Sweep Taconic- Lance Wheeler Video

HUDSON -- The Hudson girls basketball team proved once again on Tuesday night that you can't keep a good team down for very long. After dropping two of its last three games, the Bluehawks came into Tuesday's Patroon Conference game against Taconic Hills determined to get back on track and did just that, rolling to a 70-29 victory over the Titans. Losses to Maple Hill and Tamarac, sandwiched around a victory over Voorheesville, had Hudson searching for answers after starting the season off with six straight wins. After a sluggish start on Tuesday, the Bluehawks got it together to take quarterly leads of 13-3, 39-16 and 57-22. "We had two really good days of practice and that's what it was,"Hudson coach Brice Ivery said about Tuesday's showing. "We had a two-hour practice and the first twenty minutes of it was a good conversation. We needed to find out where everybody's head was and to let them know we aren't entitled to anything because we were good last year. You have to work for it and they responded in practice yesterday and I knew it would turn over in the game." Hudson benefitted from the play of Emily Clark, who was making just her second appearance of the season after recovering from an injury suffered at the end of soccer season. Clark didn't enter the game until there were four minutes left in the first half, but in that time frame poured in eight points and gave the team a needed spark. "It's good to have Emily Clark back," Ivery said. "Her energy, her basketball expertise and her shot is going to open things up for our bigs, going to open things up for Jazz slashing. Teams were packing it in and we only had one person teams had to worry about, but now we have a couple." Clark finished with 12 points, one of four Hudson players to reach double figures in scoring. Freshman Shayna Coppersmith also had 12 points off the bench. "Shayna is good," Ivery said. "She was rushing her shot early in the season, but she's a freshman, she played modfied last year, but she has great footwork. She's picking it up and as the year goes on she's going to get stronger and stronger." Mykal Walters led Hudson with 14 points, hitting four 3-pointers. Jenya Robinson added 12 points. Brooke Monty had 10 for Taconic Hills. Kylee DeRocha chipped in with nine. Hudson (8-2, 7-1) goes to Coxsackie-Athens, while Taconic Hills (1-7) plays host to Catskill on Friday at 7 p.m. TACONIC HILLS (29): Monty 2-4-8, Shadic 1-0-2, Shumsky 1-1-4 (1), Rhoads 1-0-3 (1), DeRocha 2-4-9 (1), Waldorf 1-1-3. Totals 8-10-29 (3). HUDSON (70): Walters 5-0-14 (4), Jepsen 2-1-6 (1), Clark 5-0-12 (2), Robinson 5-1-12 (1), Peck 4-0-8, Coppersmith 6-0-12, Ridley 2-1-6 (1). Totals 29-3-70 (9). -- Tim Martin Maple Hill 40, Catskill 39