The Lady Dinos are on the road this weekend for the Fruita Monument Tournament in Colorado. The Fruita Tournament has become something of a tradition for the Dinos who make the trip every year to play teams from the eastern part of Utah and the Fruita/Grand Junction area. In the opening game Thursday night Carbon shutdown the Palisade Bulldogs 53-18 to start tournament play.

Carbon has been on the road since Nov. 16 and won’t play in Price until Jan.4 against Union. In that time they have put together a 4-3 record and Coach Cami Carlson talked about some lessons learned so far in the early part of the season.

“We had some pretty tough teams in the Uintah Tournament. And in the game against Uintah we learned some big valuable lessons that were really frustrating. Going into the fourth quarter we had a solid lead and blew it, couldn’t make a shot, made stupid passes. They couldn’t miss a shot and they had of course the fans on their side and had that momentum and really just took it to us because we stopped. So we learned a valuable lesson and hopefully won’t do that again. Hopefully we learned that now and won’t have to learn that hard lesson later when it means more.”

On Thursday in the game with Palisade, they kept their foot on the gas, allowing the Bulldogs to only score single digits in every quarter and never allowed more than seven in any quarter. The third was huge for Carbon scoring 20 points and only allowing Palisade two.

Madi Orth put up 12 points to led Carbon in the win continuing her outstanding play this season. Janzie Jensen and Amiah Timothy both scored six with Jensen adding three assists. Haley Garish added five rebounds and Sydney Orth six assists in the victory that also saw a quartet of Dinos score five points each.

Up next, Friday Carbon will face Grand Junction (0-3).  And then on Saturday they will face the Fruita (4-0) team that beat the Emery Spartans at the Uintah tournament in a tight one 51-48.