{"id":194565,"date":"2026-03-07T09:32:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T09:32:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/194565\/"},"modified":"2026-03-07T09:32:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T09:32:13","slug":"high-schooler-scores-six-points-in-14-seconds-to-seal-comeback-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/194565\/","title":{"rendered":"High schooler scores six points in 14 seconds to seal comeback win"},"content":{"rendered":"

In March, all it takes is a single sequence to change an entire game — even in high school basketball.<\/p>\n

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At the Iowa Class 4A state championship tournament on Thursday night, Dallas Center-Grimes’ girls’ basketball team delivered an ending that was reminiscent of Reggie Miller’s eight points in nine seconds in Game 1 of the 1995 Eastern Conference finals.<\/p>\n

While facing elimination in the semifinal round, the Dallas Center-Grimes team found itself trailing Norwalk 42-38 with 35.9 seconds remaining in regulation.<\/p>\n

Dallas Center-Grimes had possession of the ball on their baseline before inbounding to a cutting Ava Smid for an easy layup, to shrink the gap to two.<\/p>\n

In high school basketball, the clock doesn’t stop after a made basket. But Smid didn’t let that stop her.<\/p>\n

Off the basket, Norwich took the ball out with two timeouts in the chamber. Smid smothered her matchup on the inbound pass, eventually coming up with a steal and a short bank shot to tie the game.<\/p>\n

Norwich took the ball out again — and once again, Smid collected another steal. This time, finishing another layup through contact for continuation to give Dallas Center-Grimes the lead, 44-42.<\/p>\n

“It was the quickest six points I’ve ever witnessed in my life,” head coach Adam Jones said<\/a> of Smid’s heroics.<\/p>\n

“I was just trying to defend her, and I somehow got the ball and scored every time,” Smid said<\/a> with a smile.<\/p>\n

Dallas Center-Grimes guard Tessa Jones described the moment as “insane,” with each Smid bucket hyping the gym up more and more.<\/p>\n

“Probably the craziest three seconds of my life,” Tessa Jones said.<\/p>\n

Though the game has concluded, Smid is still living in the moment.<\/p>\n

“I don’t even feel like we’re going to the state championship right now. I feel like I’m still like in the game, mentally,” Smid said.<\/p>\n

She finished the game with 16 points, six steals and five rebounds.<\/p>\n

Dallas Center-Grimes won the semifinal matchup 47-42 to advance to the state championship and extend their win streak to 15 games.<\/p>\n

They’ll play in the championship on Saturday with hopes of winning their second state title.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In March, all it takes is a single sequence to change an entire game — even in high…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":194566,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,104,103],"class_list":{"0":"post-194565","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas","8":"tag-dallas","9":"tag-dallas-headlines","10":"tag-dallas-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194565\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/194566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}