The Carbon girls basketball team made their annual trip to Fruita, Colorado over the weekend to play in the Fruita Monument Tournament. Playing three games in as many days the Lady Dinos had already dismissed Palisade Thursday night 53-18. Friday and Saturday would bring challenges from the Grand Junction Tigers and then the host team the Fruita Monument Wildcats.

Friday night’s game with the Tigers wasn’t even a contest as Carbon held Grand Junction to no points in the first and final quarters and just seven points in the middle ones as Carbon collected the 47-7 win.

Coach Cami Carlson has been preaching defense all season and it must have set in as Carbon held the Tigers to 17% shooting and also got Grand Junction to turn the ball over 38 times.

Madi Orth led the Dinos with 11 points pulling down seven boards and also collected five of Carbon’s 25 steals in the contest. Amiah Timothy added 10 points with Kennedy Williams scoring seven. Stevie Oman led the Dinos with eight rebounds while scoring six in the rout.

Carbon would face previously unbeaten host team the Fruita Monument Wildcats on Saturday in the final game of the weekend.

The Wildcats had made it to this point with a 5-0 mark. Fruita had beaten the Emery Spartans 51-48 the previous weekend at the Shannon Johnson Classic in Vernal.

The Dinos jumped out to an early 20-16 lead at the half,  but after the third quarter found themselves down by one.

Carbon pulled out all the defensive stops in the forth going on a 17-9 run in the final quarter and securing the 44-37 win and perfect weekend.

Madi and Sydney Orth both led the Dinos with 11 each in the contest, with Sydney adding four rebounds and four steals. Timothy had a great line as well with six points, five boards and four assists.

The Dinos will be off all week again until Friday when they head to Richfield for the 3A Preview at the Sevier Valley Center on the campus of Snow College.

Carbon will have two games in two days opening up on Friday with the defending 3A State Champions, the Morgan Trojans. They will end the weekend on Saturday against Juan Diego, and then be back on the road Tuesday Dec. 21 to take on North Sanpete.

Carbon will have their first home game since November on January 4, when they will start a three game home stand against Union.