The St. Joseph Female Flyers need to do a better job of scheduling their vacations.

The heavy snow last week that kept students out of school also kept them from practicing, and St. Joseph head coach B.J. Hannon said it was noticeable in a 56-40 loss to the Sciotoville East Lady Tartans on Monday.

“We just turned the ball over too much and we missed 12 free throws. Our lack of practice all week had an effect on us,” said Hannon.

The Female Flyers took an 11-9 lead in the first quarter as Michelle Staton scored seven points.

Cierra Wright had six points in the second quarter as East rallied to take a 26-20 lead. Katie Schwab had five points to keep the Female Flyers close.

Meghan Williams got eight points in the third quarter as the East lead went to 39-30. Staton had five more points for St. Joseph.

In the fourth quarter, Williams scored six more to counter four points by St. Joseph’s Katie Hacker as East outscored the Female Flyers 17-10.

Staton and Hacker scored 15 points each for St. Joseph (6-9).

Williams had 20 points for East (7-9) including six 3-pointers.

Sciotoville East 9 17 13 17 = 56

St. Joseph 11 9 10 10 = 40

SCIOTOVILLE EAST (7-9): Brittany Caudill 1 0 0-0 2, Meghan Williams 1 6 0-0 20, Brittany Swords 1 0 1-2 3, Emily Howard 0 0 0-0 0, Katie Bennett 2 0 0-2 4, Cierra Wright 3 0 2-2 8, Haley Fisher 1 0 0-0 2, Jessica McCallister 3 2 0-0 12, Toni Lang 2 0 1-2 5. Totals: 14 10 4-9 56.

ST. JOSEPH (6-9): Michelle Staton 6 0 3-6 15, Sarah Basedow 1 0 0-2 2, Katie Hacker 5 0 5-8 15, Katie Schwab 1 1 1-5 6, Sarah Neal 0 0 0-0 0, Allison Stump 0 0 0-0 0, Kacie Rucker 0 0 0-0 0, Chelsea Blackburn 0 0 0-0 0, Ivanna Sethnicka 0 0 2-2 2. Totals: 13 1 11-23 40.