Serving O'Brien & Clay Counties
Serving O'Brien & Clay Counties
H-M-S girls earn War Eagle win in final game
Kylee Schiphoff leads a fast break opportunity against South O'Brien on Feb. 8. She scored 15 points in H-M-S's 49-33 win.
Down to their final chance to win a War Eagle Conference game, the Hartley-Melvin-Sanborn girls' basketball team responded by defeating South O'Brien, 49-33, on Feb. 8 in Hartley. The Hawks finished the regular season at 6-15 overall and 1-9 in the conference.
H-M-S had defeated Harris-Lake Park and Trinity Christian, as well as South O'Brien in the teams' first meeting, but those wins did not count toward the WEC standings.
"We had a couple of other ones that slipped out of our hands," Hawk coach Lester Tessum acknowledged.
A strong finish in the first quarter gave H-M-S a 15-5 lead, which gr...
