The Dalles Riverhawk post Lauryn Belanger makes a reverse layup in the second half of Friday’s Intermountain Conference game versus Crook County. TD captured its sixth win in the past seven games, 56-23.
The Dalles Riverhawk post Lauryn Belanger makes a reverse layup in the second half of Friday’s Intermountain Conference game versus Crook County. TD captured its sixth win in the past seven games, 56-23.
Over the past two seasons, The Dalles girls basketball team has averaged 42.9 points a game.
After losing all-league players Jodi Thomasian and Paulina Finn to graduation, the biggest questions entering this campaign was on who could pick up the scoring slack.
Kilee Hoylman dropped 22 points, Lauryn Belanger added 10, and Rainie Codding poured in eight points, as The Dalles girls basketball goes on a 35-12 second-half flurry for a 56-23 win against Crook County Friday at Kurtz Gym.
So far, Hoylman, Belanger and the sister tandem of Rainie and Ellie Codding have helped the Riverhawks to 46.6 points a clip and a streak of six victories in the last seven games overall.
“From last year, we just all realized that we all need to score now, and we have to work together more because we can’t just rely on certain people to get us points,” Hoylman said. “We are balanced and that is because we have just been slowing it down on offense, taking our time, not rushing and making good passes and sharing the ball.”
Hoylman led all scorers with 15 points to boost the Hawks to a 21-11 halftime advantage.
Belanger tallied eight points, Molly Taylor had three and Rainie Codding sank a field goal to spearhead a 14-2 third-quarter flurry, which expanded the lead to 35-13 with one quarter left to play.
TD totaled 19 field goals, one 3-pointer, and went 17 of 31 from the line, while Crook County made eight baskets and converted 7 of 13 from the line.
The Cowgirls managed just five second-half field goals, one in the third quarter, and had a lapse of 14:32 between baskets.
“We appreciate all of our players’ efforts on defense. That is where it all started and what ended up winning us the game,” TD head coach Brian Stevens said. “We mixed them up by switching a lot of our defenses. They started traveling without pressure and throwing the ball away because they didn’t know what was coming at them. So, credit our girls for being able to adapt and switch on the fly in the different defenses we played.”
Hoylman also had eight steals, five assists and two rebounds, Belanger pulled down three rebounds and Rainie Codding ended up with six rebounds.
Jenna Miller chipped in five points, eight rebounds, two steals and three blocks, Taylor notched three rebounds, four steals, a block and eight pass deflections and Larissa McConville contributed four points, four rebounds, four steals and two assists to lead the Hawks.
TD (7-5 overall, 1-0 league) is at No. 14 Redmond (7-6, 1-0) for a league contest slated for 6:30 p.m. Friday.
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