Tigers bludgeoned by Iowa Western press

The Reivers used the matchup with a winless Tigers workforce as an opportunity to make an announcement and construct confidence again, they usually did so with an aggressive press for a lot of the night en path to a shocking 107-24 remaining scoreline.

The loss drops MCC to 0-10 general and 0-3 in Iowa Neighborhood School Athletic Convention play. Iowa Western is 9-2 general and 2-1 in ICCAC play.

Serving because the performing head coach with head coach Carey Phariss not current, MCC assistant Bryant Hedgeman was main a heavily-depleted group of gamers. Due largely to damage points, solely six gamers suited up for the Tigers on Wednesday, leaving Hedgeman just one substitute at a time and nearly no option to totally change the stream of the sport.

“I really feel that it’s solely going to get higher [here], I’ll say that,” Hedgeman stated. “We had a whole lot of fouls that we needed to work with, a whole lot of accidents. Everybody’s making an attempt to play their hardest on the market, and also you get out of your rhythm of who’s coming in and subbing out. I didn’t have my regular gamers that will sub in and get them some relaxation, in order that they had been enjoying much more minutes than they might usually.”

T-R PHOTO BY ROSS THEDE – Marshalltown Neighborhood School freshman Olivia Gradwell (14) shoots over Iowa Western’s Isabel Wallschlaeger (21) in the course of the first half of Wednesday’s sport at MCC.

With just one sub out there, the quantity of heavy minutes instantly took a toll on the MCC gamers they usually progressively had been extra exhausted because the evening went on. No participant performed lower than half-hour — Emma Lengthy performed a game-high 38.

Iowa Western scored the primary 15 factors of the sport earlier than five-straight MCC factors received it again to a 10-point sport. For the remainder of the primary half, the Tigers scored simply two factors.

Earlier than halftime the Reivers’ press felt as if it had run its course, with IWCC’s lead ballooning from 21-5 after the primary quarter to 50-7 on the halftime break. Nonetheless, although, because the second half started the press was nonetheless on. MCC turned the ball over a staggering 41 instances over the course of the evening and solely had 5 assists.

Within the second half, Marshalltown native and West Marshall graduate Olivia Gradwell made the largest impression on offense for the Tigers. She ended the evening as MCC’s solely scorer in double-digits with 10 factors. She hit two 3-pointers and added six rebounds.

Lengthy scored seven factors and Angeles Betancourt scored 5 factors.

MCC is just not scheduled to play a sport till after the winter break on Jan. 4 at Moberly Space Neighborhood School.

No. 8 Iowa Western 107, MCC 24

IOWA WESTERN (9-2, 2-1) — Caela Tighe 3-7 1-2 7, Aleshia Jones 4-7 0-0 9, Hannah Burg 6-10 0-2 13, Mikayla Huffine 2-5 0-0 5, E’Laiyah Heard 2-4 0-0 4, Caleigh-Rose West 5-17 2-4 12, Emma Russell 0-1 0-0 0, Ericca Richardson 4-7 1-2 10, Ndidiamaka Ndukwe 0-1 0-0 0, Shanae Suttles 2-4 0-2 4, Isabel Wallschlaeger 1-4 3-4 5, Courtney Fields 5-9 0-1 11, Jamyah Winter 6-11 1-1 17, Isabella Pardowski 3-12 5-6 11. TOTALS 43-99 13-24 107.

MCC (0-10, 0-3) — Angeles Esther Betancourt Tejada 2-9 0-0 5, Aryana McQueen 1-3 0-0 2, Olivia Gradwell 4-10 0-0 10, Emma Lengthy 2-14 3-3 7, Kaylin Smith 0-8 0-0 0, Isneydy Mercedes 0-2 0-0 0. TOTALS 9-46 3-3 24.

IA WESTERN 21 29 30 27 — 107

MCC 5 2 13 4 — 24

3-Level Targets–Iowa Western 8-23 (Winter 4-9, Richardson 1-2, Jones 1-3, Burg 1-3, Huffine 1-3, Tighe 0-1, Russell 0-1, Ndukwe 0-1), MCC 3-16 (Gradwell 2-4, Tejada 1-2, Smith 0-2, Mercedes 0-2, Lengthy 0-6). Rebounds–Iowa Western 49 (Paradowski 10), MCC 24 (Tejada 9). Assists–Iowa Western 28 (Wallschlaeger 6), MCC 5 (Tejada 2). Whole Fouls–Iowa Western 9, MCC 19. Fouled Out–Lengthy.