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HCC Sports Information
Saturday, November 8, 2008
Sophomore Brittany Hines
scored a career-high 23 points and freshman Ariella McGhee set a new
single-game team rebounding record to power a huge Hutchinson Community
College women’s basketball comeback against Marshalltown Community College
on the final night of the Grand Prairie Hotel Classic Saturday night at the
Sports Arena.
HCC trailed by 20 points in
the first half, but battled back to defeat Marshalltown 75-68.
“We got off to a slow start
and they got off to a hot start making all kinds of shots from the
perimeter,” HCC head coach John Ontjes said. “It snowballed on us.
“Give our kids credit for
fighting back. They got the game back within reach by halftime and in the
second half we played defense like we should have in the first half.”
Hines ignited the
second-half rally scoring 13 points in helping HCC outscore Marshalltown
(3-1) 44-25 in the final 20 minutes. Hines finished shooting 8 of 10 from
the field, including 2 of 2 from 3-point range.
McGhee broke a 22-year-old
team record pulling down 18 rebounds on Saturday night. McGhee broke the
1986 record of 17 by Penny Fischer.
But individual efforts were
overshadowed by HCC’s comeback from a 20-point first-half deficit.
Marshalltown hit 8 of its first 16 shots and built a 24-4 lead with 9:50 to
play in the first half after a Megan Stanton 3-point goal. Hutchinson, over
the first 10 minutes was just 1 of 9 shooting.
The Lady Dragons slowly
started to turn things around in the latter stages of the opening half. A
Hines basket with 7:32 to play capped a 12-3 Lady Dragon run to cut the
deficit to single digits at 24-16. HCC trailed 43-31 at halftime.
Hutch eventually erased the
entire 20-point deficit midway through the second half and then dominated
the final 10 minutes of the game, completing a 33-point turnaround, building
a 13-point lead with 3:14 to play in the game.
“We will get better and
better if we learn to start the game like we start the second half,” Ontjes
said. “Those are the things that you are going to deal with with 18 and 19
year old kids. But I was very pleased that we did fight back. I hope we
improve because we have to tough games next week”
The Lady Dragons shot 44.6
percent overall (25 of 56), but were 24 of 46 after that initial frigid
start. HCC also hit 6 of 10 3-point goals. Hutch had a 51-39 rebounding
advantage. HCC was just 5 of 14 from the stripe in the first half, but
improved to 14 of 22 in the second half.
Both McGhee and freshman
Naudia Campbell posted double-doubles against Marshalltown. McGhee had 10
points to go with her team-record 18 rebounds. She also had two steals and
two blocked shots. Campbell had 11 points, 11 rebounds and two blocked
shots.
Sophomore Lauren Sparks had
10 points and five assists.
Marshalltown finished
shooting 33.9 percent from the floor (21 of 62). The Tigers had nine 3-point
goals on 28 attempts. Stanton had 15 points and six rebounds to lead
Marshalltown.
The Tigers hit 16 of 19 free
throws in building their first-half lead. But Marshalltown was just 1 of 12
from the free-throw line in the second half.
After Marshalltown stunned
the Lady Dragons in building a 24-4 lead, HCC immediately got back into the
game with a 16-0 run over the next 3 ½ minutes, pulling within 24-20 on a
Brittney Chamberlin layup with 6:21 to play. Thanks to a ton of free throws
and two 3-point goals, Marshalltown pushed the lead back out to 15 points
(38-23) with 2:29 left in the half.
Marshalltown led 43-31 at
halftime.
The Tigers led 45-31 when
HCC’s started to climb back up the mountain again. A Sparks 3-point goal
ignited a 27-5 run in which the Lady Dragons finally grabbed the lead. Two
Heather Robben free throws tie the game at 50-all with 10:06 to play and
Campbell hit another free throw for a 51-50 lead with 9:36 to play. The run
ended on a Hines 3-pointer with 7:39 to play and a 58-50 HCC lead.
HCC built leads as large of
13 points in the second half.
The Lady Dragons will play
host to the Airport Steakhouse Classic next weekend at the Sports Arena.
Hutchinson will play Neosho County on Friday and Eastern Oklahoma State on
Saturday.
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OTHER QUOTES
Head Coach John Ontjes
On Brittany Hines …
“Brittany had a great game.
She came out in the second half and attacked the basket and made some plays
for us. We needed that from her.”
On the youth of this team
…
“We fouled too much tonight.
We had kids in foul trouble. We have to learn to play aggressive without
fouling. When you put a good foul-shooting team to the line 19 times in the
first half and the make 16 of them and on the other hand we made 5 out of
14. We just didn’t execute. I blame it on our youth. The kids really battled
back and we had kids step up. It was a good performance in the second half.” |
