If the Ironton Fighting Tigers need some spending money during the basketball season, they could get a job as window washers.

Ironton cleaned the glass in extra shiny fashion by out-rebounding the Ashland Tomcats 47-to-20 en route to a 75-71 win Saturday night.

“It was the one reason we won the game. Period,” said Ironton coach Mark LaFon.

Michael Lamb not only led Ironton with 17 points but pulled down 10 rebounds and blocked two shots. Johnathon Schweickart came off the bench to grab eight rebounds.

“Lamb did a good job being consistent and not getting frustrated against a big kid like (Ryan) Bonner,” said LaFon. “When John Schweickart says he’s going to be around the glass, he’s hard to keep off the boards.”

Ironton (10-4) also got 16 points off the bench from Dustin Green including three trifectas in the third quarter that helped open up a 10-point lead and also slowed an Ashland scoring surge.

“Green hit those shots that were really big at the time,” said LaFon.

Tim Kochendoerfer scored 12 points in the first quarter to help stake Ironton to an 18-16 lead, but a collision under the basket caused him to hit his head and he left the game early in the second quarter and did not return.

“It was a physical game anyway, so we didn’t want to chance it by bringing him back,” said LaFon.

Ironton’s biggest lead in the second quarter as the 33-25 halftime lead after a 10-footer by Lamb with 48 seconds on the clock.

The lead was 52-42 on a trey by Green with 52 seconds on the third quarter clock, but a 3-pointer by Connor Swift made it 52-45 and another triple by Drew Royalty with five seconds left cut the deficit to 56-50.

Ashland trailed 60-56 early in the fourth quarter and was down 71-66 with 1:36 left when Lukas Morris came up with a steal and layup at the 1:10 mark.

Morris — who finished with 10 points — also converted two foul shots with 16 seconds left to put the lead at 75-68.

On the down side, Ironton had a season-high 28 turnovers that frustrated LaFon.

“The way Ashland plays is to just try and get you to take bad shots. They don’t try to put pressure on you. We just handed it to them,” said LaFon.

Ashland (11-8) had four players in double figures. Dyland Delaney scored 14, Chris Johnson 13, and Bonner and Ryan Whetsel 12 each.

Ashland 16 9 25 21 = 71

Ironton 18 15 23 19 = 75

ASHLAND (11-8): Will Skaggs 0 1 0-0 3, Dylan Delaney 3 2 2-2 14, Ryan Whetsel 4 1 1-2 12, Ryan Bonner 50 2-2 12, Chris Johnson 4 0 5-6 13, Connor Swift 1 2 0-0 8, Drew Royalty 2 1 2-4 9, Jimmy Alexander 0 0 0-0 0. Totals: 26-59 12-16 71. Fouls: 16. Fouled out: None. 3-point goals: 7-23. Rebounds: 5-15=20 (Bonner 6), Whetsel 3). Team rebounds: 5. Assists: 15 (Skaggs 7, Delaney 5). Steals: 8 (Delaney 4). Turnovers: 17. Blocked shots: None.

IRONTON (10-4): Malcolm Morton 1 0 0-0 2, Tim Kochendoerfer 4 1 1-1 12, Lukas Morris 4 0 2-4 10, Erin Edens 1 0 1-1 3, Michael Lamb 8 0 1-1 17, Travis Elliott 0 0 0-0 0, Dustin Green 3 3 1-2 16, Johnathon Schweickart 3 0 3-5 9, Robbie Webb 1 0 00 2, Jon Norris 0 0 0-0 0, Tommy Waginger 1 0 2-2 4. Totals: 30-61 11-16 75. Fouls: 17. Fouled out: None. 3-point goals: 4-14. Rebounds: 20-27=47 (Lamb 10, Schweickart 8, Elliottt 5, Morris 5). Assists: 10 (Morris 2, Elliott 2, Edens 2). Steals: 8 (Morris 3, Morton 2). Turnovers: 28. Blocked shots: 3 (Lamb 2, Morris 1).

RESERVES: Ironton 52, Ashland 443. Ironton scoring: Mason Weisgarber 2, Tres Wilkes7, Mac Carter 6, Michael Lawless 7, J.P Taylor 22, Josh Murphy 2, Robbie Webb 6. Ashland: J.D. Cullop 9, Jere’ Black 6, Tyler Gibbs 5, Jerry Traylor 5, Ty Hornbuckle 3, Cody Withrow 7, Drew Royalty 8.