PAINESVILLE, Ohio --- Behind a sizzling start from Autumn Taylor, the Golden Eagles women's basketball team won their fourth straight game, going on the road for a 90-73 victory over Lake Erie on Tuesday night.
 
Clarion is now 4-1 to start the season for the first time since the 2018-19 season. That year the Golden Eagles won four straight to open before losing – ironically, to Lake Erie.
 
Autumn Taylor exploded for the best scoring night of her career, as the sophomore guard continued her torrid pace to start the season. She went 11-of-20 from the field and 6-of-14 from three-point range for a career-high 30 points, with the vast majority of that damage coming at the beginning of the game. Taylor scored 24 of her 30 points in the first quarter as the Golden Eagles outscored the Storm 32-17 in the first 10 minutes.
 
It took a team effort to dispatch the Storm, though, and the other Golden Eagles came up big in locking up the fourth straight win. Tearra Cook posted a double-double with 10 points and a game-high 13 rebounds, pulling off the feat in just 21 minutes of work. Zoe Guice scored 17 points on 6-of-10 shooting from the field and Arianna Seitz added 11 points.
 
Clarion got to work from the jump as the Golden Eagles were all over Lake Erie to start, opening the game on a massive 17-2 run. Cook scored to give Clarion an 8-2 lead, taking a pass from Guice and laying it in for the bucket, and Guice made it a double-digit lead with a fastbreak bucket off a steal. The Storm strung together some stops and eventually pulled to within 17-8, but Taylor put a stop to that with an offensive barrage. She converted an old-fashioned three-point play at the 2:51 mark to make it 23-14, and on the next trip down the floor sank a trey on the fast break. Taylor banged home two more three-pointers before the end of the quarter as Clarion took a 15-point lead.
 
The Golden Eagles' lead got over 20 points in the second quarter after Guice scored on the fast break to make it 41-20, and Siara Conley took a feed from Cook and laid it in to make it 46-24. Conley scored again before the end of the half and Alyssa Terza made a three-pointer with 44 seconds left as the Golden Eagles took a 53-34 lead into the locker room. The lead hovered around 20 points for the duration of the third quarter, with Seitz taking a pass from Taylor at the 1:20 mark and laying it in to make it 69-49.
 
The Storm pulled as close as 10 points away in the fourth quarter, but a quick 6-0 run gave the Golden Eagles a 16-point edge that never dipped that low again.
  Read Full Article