Girls: Pratt 43, Hays 25
Things started well in the first quarter for the Hays High Lady Indians in Pratt on Tuesday. Hays used a 10-3 run to go up 12-8 with 2:45 left in the first quarter. Hays though would score just two more field goals in the rest of the first half, getting outscored 13-4 in the 2nd quarter. Hays trailed at half time 26-16.
Highlights
Hays fell behind by as many as 15 points twice in the third quarter before closing the half on a 6-2 spurt to pull within 11 at 36-25. The Indians had five total chances to cut the deficit to single digits in the second half, but never could get a big shot to go in. Hays scored 12 points in the first quarter, then tallied only 13 over the next three quarter and was shutout in the fourth quarter. Pratt moves to 2-0 with the 43-25 victory. Pratt is ranked 8th in Class 4A-D2. Hays drops to 1-3.
Coach Kirk Maska
The Indians were led in scoring by Audra Schmeidler with 15. Pratt’s Breann Becker scored 20.
Boys: Hays 74, Pratt 49
Every once in a great while, a player takes over a game. And on rare occasions changes the view on a game in the first half. Drew Young had it going early in the Hays High Indians first road trip of the season to Pratt on Tuesday. Young set a new career high of 18 points in the first half of the game helping his team to an early 18-4 lead. The Indians pushed their lead to 16 in the second quarter only to have Pratt go on a 10-2 run cutting the lead down eight. The Indians scored the final seven of the second quarter to lead 40-25 at half time.
Highlights
The Indians lead was never less than 12 in the second half as the Indians cruise to a 74-49 victory. The only scary moment of the second half came when Young with a career high 25 rolled his ankle on a play to end the third quarter. Young did walk off the court, but did not return for the fourth quarter.
Coach Rick Keltner
Three seniors scored 63 of the Indian’s 74 points. Young led all scoring with a career high 25. Isaiah Nunnery matched his career high for a third time with 23 and Keith Dryden scored 15.
Hays is 3-1 on the year and returns home on Thursday to play Colby. It will be the Indians sixth game in eight days.