Badin junior Torey Stang admits it was an unsatisfying first half.

Sure, the Rams (3-2, 1-1 Girls Greater Cincinnati League) led 21-14 at half Saturday night against Fenwick, but it had hardly been a stellar half. Badin had turned the ball over 17 times and shot 8-for-26 from the floor.

“We weren’t playing our best,” Stang said after the Rams stormed away from the Falcons for a 58-23 home win. “We needed to get together as a team and pull out our strengths.”

The Rams picked up the intensity from the start of the second half with an 8-0 run and scored 14 of the first 15 points. Fenwick, which turned the ball over eight times in the quarter – and 35 times on the night — finally hit its first shot from the floor with 2:15 left in the third quarter when Natalie Purcell sank a 3-pointer to make it 35-18.

“They were beating us at our own game,” Badin coach Tom Sunderman said. “Our style is once we get going, the defensive pressure picks up and then the floodgates open a little bit.”

Stang left just after recording her fourth steal for a lay-up and following with a trey to push the lead to 48-22 with 5:28 remaining in the game.

“We got more confident in the second half,” Stang said after being joined by McKenzie Eagan in double figures with 10 points as 12 Rams scored. “We were working as a team and that is what we need to do to win games.”

Fenwick hung around early, taking a 7-4 lead on a 3-pointer by Leah Brubaker with two minutes left in the first quarter. After Stang buried a trey at the buzzer, the Falcons opened with a burst in the second quarter to take a 11-9 lead on a pair of free throws by Mickey McClanahan, but McKenzie Eagan led a 10-0 run to give the hosts a 19-11 lead they would never relinquish.

Brubaker led the Falcons with 11 points.

“I thought we played a terrific first half,” Fenwick coach Don Burrows said after his squad fell to 2-3 and 0-2. “We are a young team and we have to learn how to string four quarters together; and that’s tough, especially against a team like Badin. Their pressure, you can’t learn from it, you have to learn from being immersed in it.”