Excerpt from the Dayton Daily News
By Tom Archdeacon
Wright State already was in trouble.
Just 2½ minutes into Monday night’s game against Cleveland State, the Raiders were down 10-0.
Moments earlier WSU coach Kari Hoffman had called Rylee Sagester off the bench and sent her onto the Nutter Center court in much the same fashion townsfolk in the Wild West once had sent their local gunslinger into the dusty street at high noon to face down the armed desperados laying siege to their town.
Within a minute, Sagester the 5-foot 7 redshirt freshman from Tri-Village High School — who remains the most prolific three-point shooter in Ohio girls’ high school hoops history — got a pass on the wing from Olivia Brown and, with a quick moment to set herself, she hoisted one of her long-range, left-handed shots that she ended with a follow through came with a flash of her trademark, long red fingernails and, on this night, marksmanship coated in good fortune.
“Yeah, I think the ball bounced around on every part of the rim and then bounced in,” Sagester said with a grin later on.
“When you come off the bench and hit your first three, you think, ‘Maybe it’s going to be a good night!’
