By Rick Peterson
TopSports.news
With two big United Kansas Conference games looming next week, Bob Wells wanted to make sure his Shawnee Heights girls basketball team took care of business Friday night in what shaped up as a mis-match.
The T-Birds accomplished that goal, riding a strong defensive performance to a 59-16 UKC romp at Shawnee Heights.
Sophomore Reianna Vega (42) tied for game-high scoring honors with 12 points in Shawnee Heights' 59-16 UKC win over KC-Turner Friday night. [Photo by Rick Peterson/TSN]
Junior Kaydence Torrez goes up for two of her 12 points in Shawnee Heights' 59-16 UKC win over KC-Turner Friday night. [Photo by Rick Peterson/TSN]
"What we talked about was coming out and executing and passng the ball sharp and playing hard on defense and doing it with defense and then just let the offense happen and let the offense come to you,'' Wells said.
"We were trying to work on a few different things tonight that we needed to spend some time with and I thought the girls did a good job overall.''
With Friday's win Shawnee Heights improved to 13-5 overall and 11-3 in the conference heading into a home matchup Tuesday night against No. 2-ranked (Class 5A) Seaman and a home game next Friday against Piper in the T-Birds' regular-season finale.
Shawnee Heights put Turner away in the opening 11:11, jumping out to a commanding 31-0 lead before Turner (1-16, 0-13) got on the scoreboard with two free throws with 4:14 left in the first half.
The T-Birds took a 34-5 advantage to the locker room at the break, with Turner ending the half with a 3-pointer, the Bears' lone field goal of the half.
Heights hit Turner with a 16-3 third quarter to open up a 50-8 advantage and a running clock was used throughout the fourth stanza.
Twelve players saw action for the T-Birds and 10 cracked the scoring column, including three double-figure scorers.
Sophomore Reianna Vega and junior Kaydence Torrez scored 12 points apiece for Shawnee Heights while senior Audrey Schulte added 10 points.
Junior Jerzey Hanna paced the Bears with 12 points.
SHAWNEE HEIGHTS GIRLS 59, KC-TURNER 16
KC-Turner 0 5 3 8 -- 16
Shawnee Heights 20 14 16 9 -- 59
KC-Turner (1-16, 0-13) -- Ruby 0-3 0-0 0, Liera 1-3 0-0 2, Jayden Hanna 1-1 0-2 2, Jerzey Hanna 3-14 5-8 12, Jones 0-3 0-0 0, Henderson 0-0 0-0 0, Hulett 0-0 0-0 0, Bodkin 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 5-24 5-10 16.
Shawnee Heights (13-5, 11-3) -- Emmot 1-8 0-0 3, Schulte 4-5 0-0 10, Canady 1-9 4-4 6, Vega 6-8 0-0 12, Swift 3-5 0-0 6, Brees 1-2 0-0 2, Torrez 6-8 0-0 12, Euwer 1-3 1-2 3, H. Bowers 1-5 0-0 2, Hamilton 0-1 3-4 3, E. Bowers 0-0 0-0 0, Hanshaw 0-1 0-0 0. Totals 24-56 8-12 59.
3-point goals -- KC-Turner 1 (Jerzey Hanna), Shawnee Heights 3 (Schulte 2, Emmot). Total fouls -- KC-Turner 8, Shawnee Heights 11. Fouled out -- none. Technical foul -- none.
