TURNER — Fryeburg’s erratic shooting from the floor and ice-cold shooting from the free-throw line kept the door ajar for Leavitt to sneak away with a win in Friday night’s Class A South crossover contest.

The Hornets just weren’t able to kick the door open.

The Raiders held on for a 43-37 triumph to pick up their second win of the season over the Hornets. Kaylee Emery led the Raiders (5-3) with 11 points and seven rebounds, while Kaylin Delaney finished with 10 points.

“Any time you can come up here and get away with a win is big,” said Fryeburg coach Sean Watson, whose team beat the Hornets, 39-28, on Dec. 15. “They’re tough.”

Rebecca Fogg paced the Hornets (4-5) with 11 points and seven rebounds, while Allie Belaire, Miranda Coombs and Liz Goulette added seven points apiece.

Fryeburg shot a robust 64 percent from the floor for three quarters. But its two-point output in the third quarter and 15-for-37 (41 percent) shooting from the charity stripe allowed the Hornets to overcome some shooting woes of their own (25 percent from the floor, 9-for-23 for 39 percent from the line) and pull within 36-34 on Fogg’s hoop with 1:27 left.

“I thought we got a little bit more flow (offensively) in the second half,” Leavitt coach Dave Gerrish said. “We were trying to pass and cut in the first half and we just weren’t get any openings. They were doing a great job in their man-to-man. We got a little bit more off the dribble-drive in the second half and got a few more looks.”

That was as close as the Hornets would get. Emery made it a four-point game again with a hoop off a nice feed from MacKenzie Buzzell. Delaney, who shot 6-for-10 from the free throw line, sank a pair to put the game away with 30 seconds to go.

Fryeburg started slow against Leavitt’s 1-3-1 full-court defense, but once they figured it out, the Raiders were able to find some openings and go an 8-0 run around the first quarter break and take a lead they would never relinquish. 

Nicole Bennett found Makayla Cooper on the baseline for two and Emery broke the press for a layup to make it 24-15 Fryeburg at halftime.

“They did a really good job on that. They moved the ball around well. If we play that, we’ve got to be able to make some plays out front, and we just weren’t able to do that,” Gerrish said.

“They extended a little bit, and I thought we passed the ball pretty well and got some looks from the middle to the baseline,” Watson said. “When they went 2-3, we struggled a little bit.”

The Raiders missed all five of the shots they took against Leavitt’s revamped zone in the third quarter.

The Hornets, meanwhile, made just two of 14 shots in the period, but those were 3-pointers from Belaire and Fogg to pull them within two. They would have gotten even closer if a runner by Goulette at the buzzer didn’t pop out after spinning halfway through the cylinder.

Baskets by Delaney and Buzzell pushed the lead back up to seven early in the fourth.