By: Joe Blystone
THE VILLAGE REPORTER
publisher@thevillagereporter.com
FAYETTE (January 6, 2026) – There are fast starts, and then there are even faster starts. Edgerton shot a smoking 90% in the first quarter to take a double-figure lead and never looked back, in a 58-46 win at Fayette.
“What we have been really working on the last week and over Christmas break is shooting the ball,” Edgerton coach Patrick Bowsher said about his team’s hot start.
“We have a couple of girls who reluctantly will shoot it. Tonight, they stepped up, they shot the ball and made baskets. When we have five players score the basketball, we are tough to beat.”
Ava Swank’s jumper, then another from Alivia Farnham off a turnover, put Edgerton on top in the first 31 seconds to give Edgerton a lead they never lost.
Katilyn Burke and Elle Huard knocked home shots in the next two minutes, but the Eagles’ Kennedy Kunkle scored on a drive, then a putback of her own miss, and finally a top-of-the-key triple to keep Fayette close at 13-10.
Edgerton fired right back as Swank and Farnham tripled, then Huard lofted a floater that hit all net to boost Edgerton up 23-13 after a first quarter in which the Bulldogs were 9-10 from the floor.
Swank scored on a drive to start the second, then Farnham unselfishly fed Huard and Jade Saul for easy baskets and hit a fade-away jumper around Kelsie Storrs’s bucket to boost the margin to 31-15.
That bulge grew to 21 at the break as Swank found Saul for a layup and Farnham laced a deep three-ball from the top of the circle at the horn to make it 38-17.
While Edgerton was shooting 15-22 in the half, the Eagles were chucking shots badly off target, going 6-26 from the field.
Despite 13 second-half turnovers and a 0-11 slump in the fourth quarter, Edgerton held a 13–18-point lead most of the second half until the last two minutes.
Edgerton went 6-10 in the third to offset six turnovers with Farnham hitting three of those shots, including a three-point play.
“It’s nice to look up at the scoreboard and see the balanced scoring, but it’s also good to know when you have a horse like that, when you need a shot and need a basket, you are going to get one,” Bowsher said about his 1,000-point scorer in Farnham.
Meanwhile, Fayette fired it up 23 times in the quarter, hitting just six. Overall, Fayette was 25% from the field at 17-68.
Despite the 0-11 in the last quarter, Edgerton (9-4) was still 48 percent, 21-43.
Farnham led all scorers with 24 and Swank added 12. Kunkle fronted Fayette (8-3) with a very efficient 16 with Addison Schang tallying 14 and Kelsie Storrs adding 13.
EDGERTON (58) – Huard 9; Burke 7; Saul 6; Gearig 0; King 0; Farnham 24; Swank 12; Bowers 0; Totals: 17-4-12 – 58
FAYETTE (46) – Kunkle 16; Schang 14; Simon 0; Mitchell 0; Storrs 13; Gorsuch 3; Totals: 13-4-8 – 46
EHS 23 15 14 6 – 58
FHS 13 4 17 12 – 46