The Union City Lady Bears were back at Fairview High School on Friday night taking on the Fairview Tigers in the final day of the Fairview Christmas Tournament. Freshman Brooke VanTassel scored the first points of the game as the Bears would strike first and go up 2-0. Later in the quarter with the score tied at four, the Tigers would go on a 10-2 run and after one quarter the Bears would trail 14-6. Fairview would run away with it in the second quarter and never look back as the Tigers would go on an 11-0 run to begin the quarter before Senior Jessica Messenger would score and put an end to the run. The Bears however were outscored in the quarter 19-2 and would trail at the half 33-8. Picking the game back up in the fourth quarter, the Tigers would start the final quarter on a 5-0 run with a running clock before Freshman Ellie Hunter made the Bears first basket, the Tigers would outscore the Bears in the fourth 10-3 as the Bears fell to the Tigers 54-17 falling to 4-4 (1-0) on the season. The Lady Bears will be back in action next Thursday January 5th as they travel to Maplewood High School to take on the Maplewood Tigers in a region game. “Another tough loss tonight. Fairview is a very solid and disciplined team. We were careless with the ball and didn’t value our possessions.” Coach Matt Moon said in a statement after the game. “The weekend off to rest will be good for us after two tough games back-to-back and we get into our region schedule next week. We’ll get better and prepare to compete at Maplewood Thursday. Time to bounce back and learn from our mistakes.”  

Game stats were not provided.