{"id":127276,"date":"2026-02-09T04:33:27","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T04:33:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/127276\/"},"modified":"2026-02-09T04:33:27","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T04:33:27","slug":"manhattan-girls-outlast-maize-in-53-44-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/127276\/","title":{"rendered":"Manhattan girls outlast Maize in 53-44 win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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<p>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<p>That\u2019s when Manhattan found another gear.<\/p>\n<p>The Indians outscored Maize by nine in the fourth quarter to secure the win and improve to 14-4 overall.<\/p>\n<p>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<p><a href=\"https:\/\/themercury.com\/sports\/mhs-girls-outlast-maize-in-53-44-win\/article_da5d9dbc-b98d-461e-9af2-bacd09bd86c3.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read the rest at The Mercury!<\/a><\/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&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":127277,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-127276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127276","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=127276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127276\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/127277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}