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Vikings top Tigers twice in a week

T-R PHOTO BY ROSS THEDE - Marshalltown Community College sophomore Laurin Lyons shoots past Grand View University junior varsity defenders Breanna Anderson (12) and Sydney Shadravan (23) during the second half of Monday’s game at the Student Activity Center.

Seven days later, the Tigers had fallen a little farther off pace.

The Grand View University junior varsity women’s basketball team scored at least 19 points in each quarter to collect its second win over Marshalltown Community College in the last eight days, trampling the Tigers 84-56 on Monday night at the Student Activity Center.

On Feb. 10, the host Vikings outdid the Tigers by 24 points — 92-68 — before making the trek from Des Moines to drown out MCC’s chances from the early going of their rematch. Grand View jumped out to a 10-point lead at the end of the first quarter and maintained at least a double-digit advantage the rest of the way.

Tiger head coach Steve Garber said one statistic told the whole tale for his team on this night.

“Our rebounding was atrocious and usually that’s the will to win, that’s staying together as a team and fighting for each other, and there was a lot of separation with some players tonight,” Garber said, “but yet the team that started the second half, they probably fought the most so they played the most.”

T-R PHOTO BY ROSS THEDE

The Tigers (8-20) did their best to turn up the heat on the Grand View JV squad, but the Vikings were up to the challenge of MCC’s press-in-progress. Garber’s second-half lineup didn’t change until sophomore Dana Stokes went down with a cramp nearly three minutes into the fourth quarter, though she returned to the court when she was ready three minutes later.

MCC was already trailing by 23 at that point, so Garber gave those second-half starters a break over the final 2:40.

“I enjoyed watching them more than I enjoyed watching others,” he said of his second-half lineup selection. “The five players that were out there, at least they were getting up and down the floor, they were more conducive for pressing.

“We haven’t worked a whole lot on the particular press we had out there tonight so we’ll work on it a little bit more before Saturday’s game, but their efforts were much better than others.”

Rachelle Smith, Laurin Lyons, Lotte van Malsen, Carla Collado and Stokes got the majority of the playing time after the half, at which point MCC’s deficit was already 16. Kelly Leerar scored 10 of her game-high 16 points before the break, and Sydney Shadravan racked up all of her 15 points after intermission.

T-R PHOTO BY ROSS THEDE

Marshalltown’s best stretch of half-court offense saw the Tigers tally a 7-0 run to inch within 14, but the comeback needed more defense than MCC was providing on this night.

“There was a little frustration with some non-calls that our players thought should have been called, but still we were just not very good on the boards and we turned the ball over too many times,” Garber said. “Those two things in the game of basketball is not a very good formula. That’s a great formula for failure but not a very good formula for success.”

Neither is 19.2 percent shooting, which is what had the Tigers in a 16-point halftime hole. MCC was 5-for-26 from the field in the first half but shot 12-for-16 at the free-throw line in order to cling to the possibility of chasing down the Vikings.

But Grand View championed a 47-30 rebounding advantage that included a whopping 18 offensive boards that led to 18 second-chance points for the Vikings.

“Tonight was just, I don’t know where people’s heads were,” Garber added. “People who usually box out well didn’t, then we were mismatched with some other players down low and it was just a bad performance.

“It’s either they [rebound] or they don’t, it’s all heart — will to win, compete — and that part wasn’t there.”

Stokes scored a game-high 22 points to lead MCC, while Lyons compiled a double-double of 14 points and 10 rebounds. Collado made a pair of 3-pointers and pitched in nine points off the bench for the Tigers, who are back at home Saturday with a 2 p.m. clash against Southeastern.

The Blackhawks won the first meeting, 71-53, in Keokuk.

Grand View JV 84, Marshalltown CC 56

At Marshalltown

GRAND VIEW JV (84) — Monahan 5-13 0-0 11, Anderson 3-3 1-1 7, Shadravan 7-16 1-3 15, Jensen 2-7 1-2 6, Leerar 5-16 3-4 16, Ahlstrom 2-7 2-2 7, Linskens 0-0 0-0 0, Roberts 3-6 0-0 7, Olson 2-5 0-0 6, George 2-4 1-2 5, Bruns 2-2 0-1 4. TOTALS 33-79 9-15 84.

MCC (56) — Smith 3-6 0-0 6, Stokes 6-15 10-11 22, Lyons 6-19 1-5 14, Zaragoza 0-3 0-0 0, Carballo 1-6 2-2 4, Ervin 0-0 0-0 0, van Malsen 0-0 1-2 1, Collado 3-8 1-2 9, Castillo 0-2 0-0 0. TOTALS 19-59 15-22 56.

GRAND VIEW 19 20 24 21 — 84

MCC 9 14 20 13 — 56

3-Point Goals–GV 9-28 (Leerar 3-7, Olson 2-3, Jensen 1-2, Roberts 1-2, Ahlstrom 1-4, Monahan 1-7, Shadravan 0-3), MCC 3-19 (Collado 2-5, Lyons 1-6, Smith 0-1, Castillo 0-1, Stokes 0-3, Carballo 0-3). Rebounds–GV 47 (Shadravan 10), MCC 30 (Lyons 11). Assists–GV 14 (three with 3), MCC 10 (Smith 4). Total Fouls–GV 19, MCC 17. Fouled Out–none.

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