The Fulton girls basketball team won their fourth straight game, beating Mexico 54-27 on Monday night.
The Red Dragons started the season 1-3.
“It’s just a flip of the switch,” Fulton coach Craig Trude said. “We lost a couple of girls at the beginning of the year, but we are starting to figure it out.”
Trude is in his first season as the coach of Fulton.
Laura Bartlett finished with a career-high 27 points for the Red Dragons. Her previous career-high of 13 points came in her most recent game on Dec. 22 at Oswego.
“We don’t beg girls to play. We want girls to beg to play,” Trude said. “These girls bought into that when I told them that. It’s the next girl up. Laura didn’t start at the beginning of the season. She didn’t play that much. Now she’s scoring 27 points in a big win over a really good Mexico team.”
Trude has only eight girls on the roster. Six of them are seniors.
“These seniors are all I have right now,” Prude said. “Three girls quit. I have one sophomore who is out for the season with an injury. Seniors are going to have to lead the way. They did it against Auburn.”
Earlier in the season, the Red Dragons defeated Auburn, a team they had lost to 20 straight times.
It was a strong defensive effort from Fulton to get past Mexico.
“We played hard on them. A good team scored 27 points on us tonight, 16 coming from the free-throw line,” Prude said. “They earned their points tonight. This is the best defensive performance of the season for us, and that is a well-coached Mexico team. (Dominick Anthony) has turned that program around.”
Mexico (6-3) is on the road against Homer at 7 p.m. on Friday.
Fulton (5-3) plays Jamesville-DeWitt on Tuesday. The Red Dragons have lost the last four games against J-D by a combined 10 points.
“We want to beat them. That’s a league opponent,” Trude said. “We can still win our league where nobody thought we would do anything.”
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