ORANGEFIELD — Able to keep the Port Neches-Groves Lady Indians at bay by leading start to finish, the Orangefield Lady Bobcats claimed a 46-38 non-district win at Bobcat Gym Monday afternoon.

The Lady Bobcats (2-2) jumped out to an early 13-4 edge in the first quarter but the Lady Indians constantly pushed back to get into the game the rest of the way until the Lady Bobcats finally had another quick flurry in the fourth quarter.

Guard Emmi Lummmus paced the Orangefield attack as she filtered in 19 points and went 10-of-11 from the free-throw line.

Fellow guard Faith Fregia pumped in 13 points. Post Cameron Choate powered her way to eight points and six rebounds while forward Jayme Deutsch added four points and a team-high nine rebounds.

Power forward Mollee Priddy paced the PN-G arsenal, scoring 19 points while yanking down seven rebounds. Priddy drained 11-of-15 from the free-throw line. Chelsea Carrillo had seven points, all of them coming in the first half, and also had eight rebounds. Post Harlee Barnwell chimed in with eight rebounds while Shelby Letulle played scrappy defense off the bench and finished with four points and six boards.

Choate got the Lady Bobcats going early by scoring three buckets inside the paint while Fregia scored on a layup and a outside jumper.

PN-G was able to find success and pulled to within 15-11 at the end of the first quarter as Priddy ripped six free-throws and Carrillo had a pair of nice buckets.

The teams combined for 16 turnovers in the second quarter and a steal and a layup by Lummus right before the half, put the Lady Bobcats up 22-14.

The Lady Indians fought back hard in the third and were able to trim the Lady Bobcat lead to 32-28 at the end of the period.

Priddy tallied five points in the quarter while Brintney Brevell had four points. Lummmus had four points for Orangefield in the period and drained a long three-pointer.

The Lady Indians got as close as 32-31 with 6:57 remaining after a nice jumpshot by Priddy.

However, sparked by Lummus and Fregia, the Lady Bobcats went on a 9-0 spurt to go up by 10 to help close it.

The duo combined to score all 14 Lady Bobcat points in the quarter as they had three field goals and went 8-of-9 from the foul line.

Both teams finished with 34 rebounds.

The Lady Indians had 30 turnovers while Orangefield had 26.

Orangefield finished 15-of-25 from the free-throw line while PN-G went 18-of-33.