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(NewsDakota.com) The fourth ranked team in Class B girls basketball in North Dakota had their work cut out for them on the road Thursday night. Carrington responded with strong second part of the third quarter and carried that momentum into the fourth quarter to earn a 66-46 victory against Oakes.

The Cardinals (12-0, 4-0 Class B District 5) had a nine point lead after the end of the first quarter, but saw that evaporate to just a single point at intermission.

Maara Nelson scored 24 points for Carrington. Sadie Hansen and Nicole Schmitz each had 14 points for Oakes.

Carrington’s next game will be on Monday, January 23rd at home against Edgeley/Kulm/Montpelier for a makeup game from January 3rd.  AM 1600 KDAK and newsdakota.com will have coverage starting about 6:30pm pregame and 7pm tipoff.  Both teams will be in action on Tuesday, January 24. Carrington remains in district play and on the road to face LaMoure-Litchville/Marion in LaMoure, while Oakes (6-7, 0-4) ventures out of district play and heads to Wyndmere to face Wyndmere-Lidgerwood.

Coverage of Carrington/LLM starts at 6:30 p.m. on TED FM 98.3/102.7 and NewsDakota.com, Oakes/Wyndmere-Lidgerwood can be heard starting around 7:15 p.m. on KDDR-AM 1220/95.9 FM and NewsDakota.com