A late swoon did in Iola High’s girls against Anderson County on Friday. The visiting Bulldogs ended the game with a 12-4 run to defeat Iola, 39-32.
The game started rough for Iola. The Mustangs were held scoreless for the first three minutes until Aysha Houk hit a 3-pointer, one of her three on the night, to put Iola on the scoreboard.
Iola tied the game 8-8 after Jenna Curry sank a jumper late in the quarter, and took an 11-10 lead when Tatum Boyd hit a trey midway through the second quarter. Anderson County came storming back, going on a 6-0 run to pull ahead 16-11.
Iola came back and tied the game at 18 when Houk hit a jumper at the halftime buzzer.
Anderson County opened the second half with a 7-3 run to lead 25-21. Neither team pulled away more than a few points.
At the start of the fourth, Iola’s Reese Curry went 1-2 from the free throw line to put the Mustangs up 28-27 but the Bulldogs took control late, mostly due to turnovers by Iola and poor play down the stretch.
Iola shot 3-10 from the line while the Bulldogs made seven of their 17 free throws.
Houk led the way with 12 points, while Boyd scored 11.
“Another hard loss for us,” Iola head coach Kelsey Johnson said. “It just comes down to turnovers. We did all the little things right tonight but we had 12 turnovers in the second half and that’s tough to come back from. But we were patient on offense.”
Iola’s junior varsity won, 25-20. Keira Fawson and Karingten Hall led the Mustangs with six apiece. Boyd had three. Jackie Fager, Elza Clift, Reese Curry, Kaysin Crusinbery and Alana Made each had two.
The Mustangs are 2-15 and back in action on the road Tuesday at Osawatomie.
IOLA (8-10-9-4—31) Houk 1/3-1-3-12 Plumlee 0-1-5-1 Boyd 1/3-0-0-11 Miller 0/1-0-5-3 Jenna Curry 1-0-3-2 Reese Curry 0-1-0-1 Sturgeon 1-0-0-2 TOTALS: 4/7-3-17-32
ANDERSON COUNTY (8-10-7-14—31) Edgecomb 1-0-0-2 Fultz 1/1-3-1-8 Kurts 2/1-0-2-7 Fudge 1-1-4-3 Disbrow 8-1-2-17 Overstrut 0-2-0-2 TOTALS 13/2-7-11-39
