GLEN ROSE – The Brownwood Lady Lions opened the second half of District 6-4A basketball action with an 81-29 road loss to the No. 1 Glen Rose Lady Tigers Tuesday night.

The Lady Lions (15-17, 2-3) trailed 24-6 after one quarter, 43-17 at halftime and 60-17 heading into the fourth period.

“We competed to the best of our ability the first two quarters and I thought we did some really good things in the first quarter defensively,” said Lady Lions 14th-year head coach Heather Hohertz. “But with their firepower you can only hold them for so long, and they started hitting shots in the third quarter and they blew it open. But we competed as hard as we could for all four quarters. We’re going to build off the positives from this one, move on and get to work on Mineral Wells.”

Kimber Green led Brownwood with 11 points trailed by Hannah Deen with seven, Mady Pyle with six, and Kassidy Wooten with five points.

The Lady Lions shot 24 percent (9 of 38) from the floor, 31 percent (7 of 22) from three-point land, and 44 percent (4 of 9) at the free throw line. Brownwood committed 26 turnovers, tallied 15 rebounds, dished out eight assists and recorded a pair of steals.

Glen Rose (31-1, 5-0) – which defeated the Lady Lions, 56-22, in the first meeting in Brownwood on Jan. 6 – received 24 points from 6-4 junior post Aimee Flippen, 14 from Alexis Rynders and 10 from Lily Melton. The Lady Tigers

Brownwood hosts Mineral Wells at 5:45 p.m. Friday in a rematch of the Lady Lions’ 54-33 district win on Jan. 10.