HIES Girls' Hoops Team Suffers First Loss Of Season

The Holy Innocents’ girls’ hoops squad suffered its first loss of the season Saturday night – the Bears fell 51-44 on the road to 6A power Collins Hill. HI is now 9-1 on the season and 3-0 in conference play.

The game was much closer than the final score – it was a one or two point game throughout and HI had the ball down by only three with 13 seconds left.

“Collins Hill is a very good team and they’ve got a chance to win the 6A title,” Coach Tony Watkins said. “It was a ‘grind-it-out’ type of game where every possession was vital. In the end, I feel their depth hurt us – they played with 9 kids consistently while we only had 6 after Grace (Asbury) went down in the first quarter.

“Overall, the effort was there and we did a nice job defending in the paint, especially after the first quarter. However, they hurt us with the 3; they knocked down 7 on the night. We need to improve our execution on offense; that will be one of our primary focuses in practice this upcoming week. A loss is only a loss if we don’t learn from it. This was a great game for us.”

Looking at the scoring, Erika Cassell led with 16 points; Kaila Hubbard followed with 12. Aaliyah Milord scored eight and Kennedy Suttle and Khayla Pointer both totaled four.

The Bears are off this week due to exams but will be in action over break at a Christmas tournament in Florida.