Parkersburg Catholic's Seneca Lang shoots a 3 while Frontier's Kelsey Dye challenges the shot at Tuesday night's home 59-37 victory during the 29th Mary 'O' Crusaderette Classic. Lang, who led all scorers with 18 points, was named the Player of the Game along with the Cougars' Dye. (Photo by Jay W. Bennett)

PARKERSBURG — A night after a thrilling overtime triumph versus Eastern, host Parkersburg Catholic kept the good times rolling Tuesday evening after handing Frontier a 59-37 setback in the final game of the 29th Mary ‘O’ Crusaderette Classic.

The 4-1 Crusaderettes of first-year head coach Bob Carr got back-to-back trifectas from Annie Tokodi-Ruth and Seneca Lang to take the lead for good in the first.

Lang, who was a board shy of a double-double and hit a quartet of 3s, led all point-producers with 18 and was named her team’s Player of the Game.

No. 7 Class A PCHS, which went 12 of 31 from beyond the arc, also got four treys from Ellie Kinnison, who scored 14 points and was joined in double figures by Bryley Starkey (15). Starkey provided a spark off the bench and finished with a game-high three steals.

“We are a work in progress,” admitted coach Carr. “Tonight was a learning experience. We try not to get too high off the win, too low off a loss and tomorrow we just got to be back in.

Parkersburg Catholic's Caroline Wynn defends against Frontier's Kelsey Dye at Tuesday night's home 59-37 victory during the 29th Mary 'O' Crusaderette Classic. (Photo by Jay W. Bennett)

“There’s a lot of things we need to work on and clean up. We’ll take the wins when they come. We don’t have a lot of depth.”

Willow Smitley, who paced the Cougars with 11 points, scored the first bucket of the game 1:54 in when she knocked down a trifecta following a Keely Barrows steal and assist.

While Lang’s first trey tied it at the 4:44 mark and Anna Bowersock made it 5-3 Cougars when she tallied the first of her nine counters, Tokodi-Ruth hit from deep and Lang soon followed via a Caroline Wynn dime.

Starkey drained 3 of 4 from the line to push the lead to 12-7, but Emma Eddy’s deuce thanks to a Kelsey Dye feed made it 12-9, which was the score heading into the second as the Cougars of head man Mike Cisler had the ball for the final shot but failed to get one off.

Dye, who was named the Cougars’ Player of the Game after putting up seven points and six rebounds, got one of her game-high four assists following a Bowersock make that made it 15-11. However, PCHS ended the stanza on a 12-1 spurt to forge a 27-12 intermission advantage.

Parkersburg Catholic's Meg Roedersheimer applies pressure to Frontier's Addison Edgar at Tuesday night's home 59-37 victory during the 29th Mary 'O' Crusaderette Clsasic. (Photo by Jay W. Bennett)

After making their first shot, the Cougars missed five straight and had eight turnovers in the second quarter.

Kinnison’s 3 got the hosts going to open the third, but the Cougars used a 10-0 spurt to trim the deficit to 30-22. A trey by Smitley at the 1:32 mark made it a seven-point affair at 34-27, but Macy Singer assisted on a Kinnison trey and Starkey got a putback to push the lead back to a dozen entering the fourth.

“We challenged them a little bit,” coach Carr said after the opening quarter. “We tried to challenge them a little bit and they stepped up.”

Frontier, which dropped to 6-3 and returns to action at 11 a.m. Friday versus Tyler Consolidated in the River City Classic at Marietta College, got a triple from Tokodi-Ruth for the last of her nine points to open the fourth.

“I try to keep the bigger picture in focus. These wins don’t mean anything,” admitted coach Carr, whose squad now squares off with Tolsia on Monday evening in Ellenboro at the Cowan-Spangler Memorial Tournament.

Frontier's Willow Smitley uses a screen by teammate Anna Bowersock against Parkersburg Catholic's Macy Singer during the Cougars' 59-37 setback on Tuesday night at the 29th Mary 'O' Crusaderette Classic. (Photo by Jay W. Bennett)

“We just have to be ready for regional time and hope wherever we are in late January and February will sort of determine who we are. We know we got a long way to go. We haven’t found our identity yet.”

Contact Jay Bennett at jbennett@newsandsentinel.com