By VINCE LOVERGINE
TopSports.news
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.
