PEPPER PIKE, Ohio --- The Golden Eagle women's basketball team played their third road game out of four to start the 2023-24 season on Wednesday, falling 93-56 to Ursuline at the Jane and Lee Seidman Gymnasium.
 
Clarion struggled shooting from the field, going 21-of-60 (.350) and just 16.7 percent from three-point range. The Arrows, meanwhile, were successful in taking advantage of Golden Eagle miscues, scoring 25 points off Clarion turnovers compared to just nine points the other way.
 
Hannah Wilkerson finished with a team-high 12 points on 6-of-11 shooting and also pulled down four rebounds, while DayLynn Thornton had 11 points and five boards. Both Autumn Taylor and Dominika Logue scored 10 points off the bench. Jaylyn Twitty and Abby Gatesman each tied for the team-high with six rebounds apiece.
 
For much of the first quarter, it did not appear that the game was going to be one-sided, as the Golden Eagles kept pace with the Arrows. Taylor made a three-pointer at the 5:01 mark of the period to cut Ursuline's lead to 8-7, and it was still a two-possession ballgame with 2:29 to play after Dominika Logue finished off an and-one. After Wilkerson pulled down a defensive board on Clarion's end of the floor, Logue rushed down and scored through contact from Madyson Stottsberry, and then made the free throw to make it a 14-10 game.
 
The Arrows' lead creeped up through the remainder of the half, reaching double-digits just before the end of the first quarter and staying there in the second. Michaela Cloonan made it 35-15 at the 7:21 mark to cap a 12-3 Ursuline run, and she later made a bucket near the end of the half to give her side a 49-30 advantage at the halftime break.
 
The Golden Eagles cut that lead down midway through the third quarter, with Abby Pynos scoring to make it 55-41, but the Arrows closed that period on a 14-2 run to take a 25-point lead into the fourth. The lead stayed above 20 points for the rest of the game and eventually topped 30 late in the fourth quarter.
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