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Fitch’s Sam Severn (14) dribbles previous a Cardinal Mooney defender throughout the Falcons’ win on Saturday in Austintown. Severn completed with 11 factors.

AUSTINTOWN — After Fitch’s large season-opening win over Lakeside, the Falcons hit a tough stretch. A 1-0 begin shortly turned to a 1-5 document as Fitch went up in opposition to among the prime groups in northeast Ohio.

Whereas not panicking, the Falcons wanted a stable win to bolster their confidence going ahead.

On Saturday, they received simply that.

The Fitch protection put the padlocks on and the Falcons had been scoring from end-to-end of their bench in a 56-24 victory over Cardinal Mooney.

First-year coach Natalie Lynn preached quite a bit about unity and sticking collectively by powerful instances this week. They’re hoping this win is the turning level this group wants.

“We had a bit tough patch there after our first sport,” Lynn stated. “We had an extended stretch of actually good groups and we positively fell a bit right into a rut due to all of that. We actually wanted this at the moment to get out of that and get out of our personal heads.”

9 complete gamers registered factors for Fitch on Saturday, which is a win in itself. Getting everybody concerned was vital for the workforce’s general confidence.

Zayda Creque led the workforce with 12 factors. Samantha Severn got here off the bench so as to add 11.

“It’s large for confidence, particularly moving into our entire total bench,” Lynn stated. “Practically all people scored at the moment and that’s what we actually wanted — to only see that ball go in — and to interrupt a press breaker once more is absolutely useful.”

The schedule received’t be getting any simpler for the Falcons both. Because the video games proceed on, studying to take that punch from one other workforce and reply with considered one of your personal is a vital lesson Fitch will likely be studying.

“You may’t simply be centered on your self and it’s a must to overcome the adversity while you is probably not successful proper off the bat,” Lynn stated. “We have now to comprehend that that’s okay, you’ll be able to nonetheless come again from it. Proper now, we get scared virtually and suppose that we’re already achieved. It’s simply studying that as a result of the rating would possibly present that we’re down by 5, we will nonetheless come again.”

In her first yr guiding the Falcons, Lynn has had excessive hopes of constructing this system up. This season, that’s the highest objective. They’re additionally on the lookout for that signature win to actually show that they’re right here and are able to large issues.

“Our fundamental objective is to only maintain creating this system. We’ve received lots of younger women on the workforce nonetheless, so maintain creating them in order that we could be the place we must be within the coming years,” Lynn stated. “We haven’t had that workforce but that no one thinks we will beat, that we come out and beat. We’ve but to try this. To have the ability to beat that workforce that we don’t stand an opportunity in opposition to is our objective.”

The Falcons (2-5) shut out the 2022 portion of their schedule on the twenty ninth, once they tackle Hilliard Davidson. Through the opening week of the brand new yr, Fitch takes on Howland, Harding and Liberty.

Mooney falls to 4-5 on the season. They had been led by Olivia Rouser who scored 10. Up to now this season, Mooney has been constructing round its protection. As they appear to bounce again and escape a two-game skid on Wednesday in opposition to Youngstown East, coach Dom Diorio has cited protection as the important thing to getting again within the win column.

“We’ve been struggling to place the ball within the hoop so we construct all the pieces off the protection,” Diorio stated. “We’ve received to get higher on protection, and we weren’t actually good at the moment, however we’re making an attempt some various things and there’s some glimpses there. We’ve simply received to place it collectively as a protection. That’s the place it’s received to begin.”