Manhattan High girls\u2019 basketball shook off tired legs and a quick turnaround Saturday, pulling away late for a 53-44 win at Maize.<\/p>\n
The Indians, coming off a league victory less than 24 hours earlier, found themselves in a battle throughout. Manhattan carried a 26-23 lead into halftime, but the Eagles responded in the third quarter and tied the game entering the final eight minutes.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s when Manhattan found another gear.<\/p>\n
The Indians outscored Maize by nine in the fourth quarter to secure the win and improve to 14-4 overall.<\/p>\n
Senior Kat Ball led the way with 21 points, delivering the steady scoring Manhattan needed in the closing stretch. Delaney Larson and Jelena Depusoir each added 8 points, while Evie Banks chipped in 5. Ansley Becket finished with 4, Jorryn Hall added 3, Bailey Busch scored 3, and Avery Ingram had 1.<\/p>\n
Manhattan returns home Tuesday night for a league matchup against rival Washburn Rural.<\/p>\n
MANHATTAN 53,<\/p>\n
MAIZE 44<\/p>\n
MHS scoring \u2014 Ball 21, Larson 8, Depusoir 8, Banks 5, Becket 4, Hall 3, Busch 3, Ingram 1<\/p>\n
Maize scoring \u2014 Williams 14, Kennedy 11, Shipp 7, Allen 4, Harris 4, Baker 2, Sabbaugh 2<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Manhattan High girls\u2019 basketball shook off tired legs and a quick turnaround Saturday, pulling away late for a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":126412,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[8918,75,84,83,8919,9,24,8920,8917,8921,63,11585],"class_list":["post-126411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-american-football","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-national-football-league","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nfl-seasons","tag-nfl-teams","tag-nfl-teams-seasons","tag-nyc","tag-seasons-in-american-football"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126411\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/126412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}