The St. Joseph Female Flyers are finding other things to do.

Besides scoring, the Female Flyers were honing other aspects of their game Friday as they beat Grace Christian 41-37.

"We played good defense and force them away from the basket," Female Flyers coach B.J. Hannon said. "The(Annie) Elliott girl does a nice job inside, but we were able to shut her down the second half.

"We're playing better as a team. We're passing the ball well and we're finding the open man. We're starting to do the little things to make us a better team."

Elliott had 11 points the first half but was held to just two field goals in the second half and finished with 19 points.

Christina Harvey had 15 points as St. Joseph won its third straight and evened its record at 3-3. Raven Blake and Danielle Blair added 8 points each for the Female Flyers.

St. Joseph opened the game with a 10-2 run and led 12-7 at the end of the quarter.

Leading 16-15 with 2:58 left in the half, the Female Flyers went on a 7-0 run as Harvey hit two baskets, Lindsay Dressel knocked down a jumper and Harvey added a foul shot to make it 23-15 at the break.

Sarah Webb's basket with 2:45 to play in the third quarter gave St. Joseph its biggest lead of the game at 35-19.

The lead was 13 when Harvey went to the bench with her fourth foul at the 4:50 mark of the fourth quarter. Grace Christian got 6 points from Rebekah Donchatz to cut the deficit to 39-32, but a basket by Blake with 1:08 left virtually clinched the win.

Grace Christian78517-37

St. Joseph1211126-41

GRACE CHRISTIAN (2-1):

Amber Weber 0 0 1-2 1, Lianna Ward 0 0 2-2 2, Kristen Lawless 1 0 0-0 2, Ashley Weber

0 0-0 0, Megan Pack 1 0 0-0 2, Janna Salyers 0 0 1-2 1, Jessica Smith 2 0 0-0 4, Sarah Whitehead 0 0 0-0 0, Annie Elliott 7 0 5-6 19, Rebekah Donchatz 3 0 0-0 6. Totals: 14

0

9-12

37. Fouls: 5. Fouled out: None.

IRONTON ST. JOSEPH (3-3):

Charleigh Haas 1 0 0-0 2, Sarah Webb 1 0 0-0 2, Mallory Hasenauer 1 0 0-0 2, Christina Harvey 7 0 1-4 15, Raven Blake 4 0 0-0 8, Danielle Blair 4 0 0-0 8, Lindsay Dressel 2 0 0-0 4. Totals: 20

0

1-4 41. Fouls: 10. Fouled out: None.