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Fremont's Lily Hall (30) rises to shoot over Green Canyon's Talyssa Nelson, left, on Friday, Dec. 27, 2024, in Plain City.

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Fremont's Maya Jensen (42) tries to break free against Green Canyon's Laynee Gibson, left, on Friday, Dec. 27, 2024, in Plain City.

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Fremont's Daphnie Moyes (5) surveys the floor against Green Canyon on Friday, Dec. 27, 2024, in Plain City.

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Fremont's Maya Jensen hauls in the basketball against Green Canyon on Friday, Dec. 27, 2024, in Plain City.

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Fremont gurad Mia McArthur takes a shot against Green Canyon on Friday, Dec. 27, 2024, in Plain City.

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Fremont's Abigail Christensen (33) passes the ball against Green Canyon on Friday, Dec. 27, 2024, in Plain City.

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Fremont's Maya Jensen (42) tries to challenge the shot of Green Canyon's Mya Hinds (12) on Friday, Dec. 27, 2024, in Plain City.

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Fremont's Mia McArthur, right, dribbles against Green Canyon's Claire Brown on Friday, Dec. 27, 2024, in Plain City.

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Fremont High head girls basketball coach Lisa Dalebout leads her team during a timeout on Friday, Dec. 27, 2024, in Plain City.

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Green Canyon's Kloey Tensmeyer, left, tries to block Fremont's Olivia Surrage (32) on Friday, Dec. 27, 2024, in Plain City.

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PLAIN CITY — Christmas break may have contributed to a somewhat slow start for the Fremont girls basketball team against Green Canyon in an early afternoon non-region game Friday.

But the Silverwolves rallied with a 10-0 run to close the fourth quarter and found a belated, 42-40 gift-package victory under the home-court tree.

Junior center Lily Hall knocked down a 5-foot baseline jumper with 15.8 seconds remaining for what proved to be the winning basket for Fremont.

“We work on a lot of post-guard entry in practice and the hook pass that Sophie (Valdez) gave to me got deflected near the hoop … pretty much wide open,” Hall said. “I was scared. That was nerve-racking for me. I thought to myself, ‘I have to make this,’ and it went in.”

Hall’s shot capped the 10-zip blitz that began after Green Canyon’s Talyssa Nelson made a 3-pointer at the 4:05 mark, giving the Wolves a 40-32 lead.

Valdez got a steal and a fast break layup with 3:15 remaining to ignite the Fremont comeback.

“We have our ‘Press 22’ that we use. Our guards just hound the other team and our back end rotates back and forth and we work as a unit; we get a bunch of steals and defensive blocks so we can get the ball and score,” Hall said.

Olivia Surrage converted a rebound basket with 2:03 left, a prelude to a sequence by Abigail Christensen that finally pulled the Silverwolves even at 40-40 with 46.4 seconds to play.

Christensen made 4 of 8 free throws and had two steals during that span.

“My coach told me ‘you need to be aggressive and get a rebound,’ and that started it,” Christensen said. “I usually am a better free-throw shooter; probably a little pressure and thinking about it too much.”

The 6-foot-2 sophomore forward led Fremont (9-1) with 11 points, seven in the first quarter, then finished with a flourish in the final frame with the four free throws.

“We came out really strong, then our shots weren’t falling and I had to play through it,” Christensen said. “My coach said find a new way to contribute to the game.”

Surrage, also a sophomore, checked in with nine points for the Silverwolves.

Fremont’s 13-11 first-quarter lead turned into a 27-22 deficit at the half following a 16-9 second stanza for Green Canyon (6-7).

Things got worse in the third period and the Siverwolves trailed 37-28 after a lackluster 10-6 quarter heading into the fourth.

“Our shots would not fall; home court, they should be able to,” Hall said. “We wanted it so badly because last year they had a buzzer-beater against us. We had to do it for coach and each other.”

It didn’t feel like it was going to happen until Fremont got rolling midway through that fourth quarter.

“The first three quarters were really difficult for us. We’re always a second-half team. We come out harder and played more together as a team,” Hall said. “We got a little flat over the (Christmas) break and didn’t have the intensity we had before. But we got into it and had more bounce in our heels. Hopefully it will carry over into other games.”

Hall scored six points, with two of her buckets coming in the fourth quarter.

“I got after my team because I had some mismatches against shorter girls and felt like they should have seen me,” Hall said. “I talked to them and said ‘you need to see me more, I’m open sometimes,’ and started getting more passes.”

She got one, and converted for Friday’s game-winner.