Staff photo / Preston Byers. Canfield’s Camie Dill (4) drives and surveys the floor, while being defended by Mooney’s Talecia Huff (1) on Monday night.

CANFIELD — The Canfield girls basketball team dominated its senior night game Monday against Cardinal Mooney, winning 57-22, despite suffering an injury scare.

Less than two minutes into the game, Canfield starting point guard Camie Dill, one of four players honored Monday, injured her left ankle and stayed on the hardwood for several minutes as athletic trainers attended to her. After being helped off the court, Dill stayed behind the Canfield bench while trainers inspected and wrapped her ankle.

Dill missed the rest of the first quarter but returned to an ovation from the home crowd early in the second period.

After the game, Dill, who still had her ankle taped and a shoe on her left foot, said there was a thought to sit out the rest of the contest with postseason play beginning in the near future.

“It hurt pretty bad at first and I didn’t want to risk it because it’s not as big of a game as going into the tournament would be, but I got it taped and it felt a lot better,” Dill said. “It feels a lot better. It just hurt at first. I think it’s just a roll, so I think it’ll be fine.”

With Dill, the team’s primary ball handler, on the sideline for the rest of the first quarter, as well as the absence of guard Jenna Triveri, Canfield tasked senior Macey Kalina and sophomore Lorieona Jannone with running its offense early on.

Despite the personnel losses, five different Canfield players scored in the first to take a 15-8 lead into the second quarter.

Once Dill checked back in, it took little time for her to curl off of a screen and hit a three-pointer, which elicited loud cheers from the fans in attendance.

Canfield coach Matt Reel said Dill’s return seemed to help calm down the offense.

“It’s your leader going down and we got a little frazzled there, but when she came back in, she just stabilizes things with her experience,” Reel said. “I was glad she was able to participate and come back. She’s going to be OK, she tweaked it, but thankfully, that ankle work we do every day is paying off.”

With Dill at the helm and Mooney’s offense going scoreless for more than six minutes, Canfield widened its lead to 27-12 by halftime.

The trends established in the first half continued in the second, and with less than three minutes left in the third quarter and down 34-15, Mooney coach Dom Diorio took out his entire starting lineup in hopes the bench could inject some energy into the rest of the team.

Diorio’s plan did not come to fruition, however, and Canfield took a 40-18 lead into the final period. Canfield senior Cami Hritz scored eight of her game-high 12 points in the third quarter.

Canfield controlled the fourth much like it did the other three quarters, outscoring Mooney 17-4 to close out the 35-point blowout.

Reel took out his four senior starters — Dill, Hritz, Kalina, and Grace McQuiston — nearly halfway through the quarter.

Reel said the night was one of “mixed emotions.”

“Not many girls when they start out playing in second, third, fourth grade become seniors in a varsity program,” Reel said. “So it’s a really nice night for them, but you’re sad because they’re four really great people and good players. And you’re sad that your season is going to come to an end here at some point relatively quickly. So it’s bittersweet, but it was a nice night for them and a nice crowd.”

For Mooney, which had won five of its last seven entering Monday after a 2-7 start to the season, no player scored more than four points against Canfield.

After its most lopsided loss of the season, Diorio said his postgame message to his team was clear.

“Come ready to practice tomorrow. We didn’t show up today. We did not show up,” Diorio said. “I told them, it was embarrassing from the start of the JV game. We had one good quarter, the third quarter of the JV game, and the rest of it was embarrassing. I told them, come ready to practice tomorrow.”

Diorio hopes that his team will be more mentally ready and focused for Wednesday’s road game against rival Ursuline. In the first meeting between the two teams on Jan. 3, Mooney (7-10, 2-2) lost to the Irish 47-24.

Canfield (13-7, 4-4) visits Poland on Thursday and then will have a nine-day break before facing Streetsboro on Feb. 17.