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By JUSTIN BURKHARDT

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Highland Park girls basketball, which was fighting a five-game losing streak entering Tuesday's home Meadowlark Conference game against Kansas City-Washington broke through with a 50-31 home win.

Junior Miluv Cosey led a balanced Highland Park attack with 12 points in Tuesday's 50-31 Meadowlark Conference win over KC-Washington. [File photo/TSN[

Zayah Kincade hit a 3-pointer to get things going for the Scots as they would get off to a 7-0 start before Washington would go on a 12-1 run to take the lead 12-8 to end the first quarter.

The Scots would come out in the second quarter and go on a 6-0 run but Scot junior Miluv Cosey would pick up her second foul of the game and have to go to the bench, which would allow the Wildcats to go on their own run to tie the contest at 16.

Senior Koralee Jones would get two baskets in a row to put her team up 20-16 and they would follow that up with another Kincade 3-pointer to go into the locker room with a 26-20 lead.

Cosey would make her return in the third quarter and score eight straight points of her team-high 12 to stretch the Highland Park lead to 34-22.

“At halftime while I was talking, Miluv really took it to heart,'' Highland Park coach Rob Brown said. "I could tell she was looking at me in my eyes. And she went on that third-quarter run where she had eight straight points, all off steals. If she keeps doing that she'll help us out a lot.”

“It was just the talk that we had during halftime, you know we came together,'' Cosey said. "He told us, we just got to stretch the lead out and I feel that's what we did. I came out with a better mindset and my confidence goes down when I miss a couple shots, but he knows how to motivate me to get out there and let it out. And that's what I feel I did.”

The Scots they would leave the third quarter with a commanding 39-26 lead and the halftime message would be enough as they would go on to pick up the 19-point victory.

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By JUSTIN BURKHARDT

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Junior JoJo Kingcannon scored a game-high 26 points for Highland Park Tuesday night, but Kansas City-Washington pulled away in the second half for a 62-51 Meadowlark Conference win at Hi Park.

Junior JoJo Kingcannon (11) led Highland Park with 26 points in the Scots' 62-51 loss to Kansas City-Washington Tuesday night. [File photo/TSN]

The Scots, who lost nine seniors from a year ago and with Kingcannon being the lone returner with major varsity experience and coach Nate Wallace in his first season as a head coach, Highland Park knew it was going to go through growing pains this season and entered Tuesday's game on a five-game losing streak.

“Poise. I think we're losing the close ones that we have lost over the season just because of the experience factor, understanding how to value the possession, understanding kind of what I want and who I want to have the ball at certain times of certain possessions to give us the best opportunity to win,'' Wallace said.

Both teams would come out giving everything they had early as they would trade basket for basket and tie it up at six early in the game.

After a Washington 3-pointer, which the Scots would answer with a Kingcannon 3 for his seventh point of the first quarter to make it 9-9, Washington would then hit two consecutive treys to end the quarter with the 15-9 lead.

The second quarter would see both teams light up the scoreboard as Kingcannon would go to work again for his team.

Kingcannon would score the first basket of the quarter and later score five straight points to get within one at 21-20.

The Wildcats and Scots would continue to battle it out until Kingcannon would drive and get the and-one to tie it up 26 and hit the ensuing free throw to giver Highland Park the lead by a point.

Washington would then get fouled and make both free throws to re-take the lead at 28-26 before Kingcannon would drive again and get the shot to go back up 29-28.

Washington would then out-score the Scots 7-1 in the final two minutes of the second quarter to go into halftime with the lead, 35-30.

The Scots would come out of the locker room with sophomore Davion Anderson hitting his first basket of the night with a 3-pointer to get within two before Kingcannon would get fouled shooting a 3-pointer and hit all three charities to enable Highland Park to re-take the lead, 36-35.

Elliot Berry for Washington would get a shot to fall and give Washington a 37-36 advantage and that would be all it wrote for the Scots, who would run out of gas at the end of the quarter when Washington would go on a 11-0 run to make it 52-40 to end the third.

The Scots would play catch-up in the fourth and came up short in the 11-point defeat.

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By VINCE LOVERGINE

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No. 6-ranked (Class 5A) Shawnee Heights girls basketball picked up win No. 13 on the season Tuesday night, rolling to a 68-3 United Kansas Conference home win over Kansas City-Turner.

 

Junior Pearmella Carter scored a game-high 15 points in Tuesday's 68-3 Shawnee Heights UKC win over KC-Turner. [Photo by Rex Wolf/TSN]

“We talked about keeping the bar high and executing and doing the things that we need to work on and not just do whatever we want and just run around, but get some good out of this,” T-Bird coach Bob Wells said.

“There were some things out there that even tonight showed up that we need to work on and the girls were made aware of that after the game and when we took them out of the game that we have to finish this But we’ll take a win any time we can get it.”

 

Shawnee Heights created a lot of turnovers leading to easy buckets in transition and just never looked back. The three points for Turner are the second lowest total they’ve had this season after scoring two against Basehor-Linwood earlier this year.

SHHS dominated from the jump and did not let off the gas pedal.

Junior Pearmella Carter scored the team's first four points, leading the team to a 10-0 run and a timeout by Turner with 6:16 left in the first quarter.

That was the start of a 35-0 run to begin the game, led by Carter with 11 of the team's first 17 points. Senior Imani McGlory and junior KK Emmot hit one each from distance and the rout was on.

Turner scored its first basket with seven minutes left in the second quarter by Alyasia Ollie. Wells emptied his bench with 6:30 left in the quarter, leaving McGlory out there as the only starter, but then the starters came back in the game for the last 2:30 left of the half.

Heights took a 48-point lead into the break, 51-3. In the third quarter it was more of the same, as Emmott scored five straight pushing the score to 59-3 and Wells emptied the bench again.

Wells would then bring the starters back out to start the fourth quarter but then the bench came back at the 4:45 mark and finished the game, as a running clock was used throughout the final stanza.

 

Wells said he kept bringing back the starters because it was to help them keep their head in the game.

 

“We were working on some different rotations if a player is hurt or sick, foul trouble, things like that and see different kids out there playing with each other,” Wells said.

Sophomore Aniya Karlyle caught the attention of Wells in this game, taking advantage of her playing time off the bench.

“She came in and did a very good job of rebounding and she’s a kid that’s really starting to come on,'' Wells said. "And a few other kids did some nice things, too. They just need to get that varsity experience with a few more people on the court.''

 

Junior KK Emmot scored 11 points in Shawnee Heights' 68-3 UKC rout over KC-Turner Tuesday night. [Photo by Rex Wolf/TSN]

Carter led all scorers with 15 points, Emmot had 11 points, senior Reianna Vega had 10 and McGlory finished with nine points.

SHAWNEE HEIGHTS 68, KC-TURNER 3

KC-Turner                0 3 0 0 – 3

Shawnee Heights 35 16 12 5 – 68

 

KC Turner (3-12) -- Chavez 0 0-4 0, Berry 0 0-2 0, Olsen 0 0-2 0, Ollie 1 1-2 3, High 0 0-2 0.

Shawnee Heights (13-4) -- Emmot 3 3-3 11, Brees 2 0-0 4, Aubrey Hamilton 2 0-0 4, McGlory 4 0-0 9, Schmidt, 1 2-2 4, Pierce 2 0-0 5, Allie Hamilton 0 0-2 0 Carter 7 1-2 15, Baum 1 2-2 4, Karlyle 1 0-0 2, Vega 5 0-0 10.

3-point goals -- Shawnee Heights 4 (Emmot 2, McGlory, Pierce). Total fouls -- KC Turner 11, Shawnee Heights 12. Fouled out -- none.