Morristown East fell in a 12-0 hole to open the game and could never climb out of it, suffering a 58-39 loss to Clinton in the Gibbs Thanksgiving tournament.

The Lady ‘Canes were able to stabilize themselves after the first quarter, but they could never close the deficit. As a result, it led to their first loss of the season.

“You can’t start that way against good teams,” head coach Justin Combs said. “And you know, it’s one of the things we’ve been talking about all year with the girls, I hadn’t felt like we had played a good 32 minutes all year. We’d always had a little stretch where we kind of turned the switch off for a second. And I told him at some point that’s going to come back to cost them if we can’t figure out a way to keep the switch on all the time. Against a good team like

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