Lady Hawks off to strong start on season

The Iowa Park Lady Hawks (2-2) split two games last week, besting Wichita Falls Memorial (2-3) on Saturday and falling 42-30 to the Sanger Lady Indians (2-2) last week at home on Tuesday night.
Iowa Park vs. Sanger
Iowa Park fell 42-30 to Sanger in the home opener last Tuesday. Callista Berrett led the Lady Hawks with 12 points on 4 of 6 shooting from the field and added a team-high 6 rebounds.
“The first home game didn’t end in a win as we hoped, but everything else about it was great. Our fans were loud and really came out to support us in our first home game,” Coach Macey Siegert said. “The girls played well against a very fundamentally sound Sanger team. The girls like to play fast, and are aggressive on defense which is something I like to see. We have a lot of experience this year with two seniors and six juniors, so I’m hoping we can use that to our advantage and play smart, fast basketball this season. The sophomores we have on the team are doing their part, too.”
The Lady Hawks tied the game 2-2 on a Raylee Huse layup at the 6:15 mark of the first quarter, but the Lady Hawks went early season cold from the field and it was 7-2 after one quarter.
Callista Berrett’s fingertip roll along the baseline made it 9-4. Then Huse stole the ball, led a breakaway, passing to Berrett for a hoop and a foul that cut the score to 9-7 with 6:29 remaining in the half.
Berrett had 10 2nd quarter points to keep the Lady Hawks close.
After trailing 23-16 at halftime, Berrett snagged two offensive rebounds and was fouled on a putback attempt, she drained two free throws to make it 23-18. Rylee Ingersoll’s three from the left of the key pulled Iowa Park to within 25-21 with just over a minute gone in the third. 2’s turnaround jumper in the lane closed the score to 28-25 with just over a minute left in the third, Sanger hit a three and a two in the final minute of the quarter to blow open a tight game. But the Hawks got no closer as the shots wouldn’t fall down the stretch in the 12-point loss.
The Lady Hawks JV lost 31-17 to Sanger JV.
Iowa Park 2 14 10 4 – 30
Sanger 7 16 10 9 – 42
Iowa Park: Callista Berrett 12, Raylee Huse 7, Rylee Ingersoll 5, Avery Shierry 2, Micah Coombes 2, Montana Fallon 2.
Iowa Park vs. Memorial
Raylee Huse scored 22 points in Iowa Park’s non-district road 45-34 victory against Memorial Lady Mavericks on Saturday. Huse added 9 rebounds, 4 steals and 10 deflections in a stellar game.
Lady Hawks Rylee Ingersoll stole Memorial’s opening possession, pushed a fastbreak, dishing to Raylee Huse for a layup and 2-0 lead. The Lady Mavericks responded with a Presley Caskey three. Lady Hawks tied the game 6-6 on a Callista Berrett jumper and Avery Shierry knocked down a free throw after an offensive rebound to give the Lady Hawks the 7-6 lead and it was11-7 after one quarter. Shierry cleaned the glass rebounds. Ahead 16-13 with 2 and a half minutes till half, Micah Coombes blocked a Memorial shot as the Lady Hawks took a 4-point lead to half.
Huse went on a one-girl 13-point scoring run in the third quarter. Huse snapped the cords on a right corner trey putting the Lady Hawks ahead 22-13 just over a minute into the third. It looked smooth, so Huse lined up and drained another from the right corner on the next trip down the court for a 25-13 advantage. Huse was on fire, she drained another from the left corner pocket and it was 28-16. Then Huse ‘s running jumper from the free throw line made it 30-19. Her turnaround jumper in the paint made it 32-21 with 2:38 left in the third.
Ingersoll knocked down a three from right of the key for the final points of the 45-34 win.
The Iowa Park JV defeated Memorial JV by a 38-18 score.
Iowa Park 11 6 15 13 – 45
Memorial 7 6 9 12 — 34
Iowa Park: Raylee Huse 22, Rylee Ingersoll 5, Callista Berrett 7, Montana Fallon 2, Avery Shierry 1, Jordyn Noble 4, Jacie Barnes 3, Bailey Martinez 1.

Iowa Park junior Montana Fallon plays tough defense in the home opener last week.