MOSES LAKE — Off a turnover, Abby Rathbun dished ahead to a streaking Camille Carpenter for an easy lay-up against Eisenhower.

The basket itself was inconsequential to the final result, a 70-27 win for Moses Lake, but the act showed the interplay of a team that features a stark divide. Rathbun, a senior headed to San Francisco next year, led all scorers with 18 points and Carpenter, a sophomore in her fourth varsity game, came off the bench to add nine points.

“I think we shared the ball a lot more,” head coach Matt Strophy said. “We’ve been charting touches like, ‘Hey, nice job,’ high-fives, being able to point... We’re talking about those things within a team where we have seniors and underclassmen and so we’re trying to bring them together a little bit more and I think that was really the most notable with the sharing of the ball and the acknowledgment of that sharing.”

Moses Lake started slow from the field, outside of Kiera McPartland.

McPartland, the team’s lone junior, scored seven points in the first quarter and 11 total. McPartland swished a three-pointer from the right wing, stopped and popped for a mid-range jumper and tossed in a floater in the second half.

“She stays positive and it’s nice to have her when we need her,” Ellie Mayo said. “She always knows when to do stuff and what to do so it’s nice to have her when we need her.”

After scoring 21 points total in two meetings last season, Eisenhower hung around in the first quarter behind five points from Bobbie Rideout.

However, Moses Lake gained separation in the second quarter, outscoring Ike 20-2.

Jamie Loera stole the ball and assisted on a basket by Morgan Yamane to give Moses Lake its first double digit lead, 21-11. Later in the quarter, Madisyn Clark went coast-to-coast for a lay-up that stretched the lead to 20 points.

“They (Eisenhower) were surprisingly a lot better this year than I anticipated them being,” Mayo said. “The offenses that they ran, we had never seen before.”

A touch pass from Loera to a cutting Rathbun climbed the lead to 31 points and Clark closed the third quarter with a runner for a 39-point lead.

Moses Lake scored a quick basket at the start of the fourth quarter to enact the running clock.

Sophomores or younger scored 12 of Moses Lake’s 14 fourth-quarter points.

“To make everyone feel included really just helps whatever we need to do to come together,” Mayo said.

Score by quarters

E — 9 2 6 10 27

ML — 13 20 23 14 70

Scoring

Rathbun 18, McPartland 11, Yamane 10, Loera 9, Carpenter 9, Clark 4, Farrya Sandmann 4, Anna Olson 3, Mayo 2

Next: vs. Kamiakin (5-0), Dec. 12, 7 p.m.