HAYS – The TMP-Marian Monarchs split a home doubleheader to close out the 2023 calendar year Tuesday night with the boys picking up their second win of the season while the girls dropped their first MCL contest of the year.
GIRLS: Hoxie 50, TMP 29
The Hoxie Indians (6-0, 3-0 MCL) used a 27-2 second half run
to build a double-digit lead on their way to a 50-29 win over TMP at Al
Billinger Fieldhouse.
TMP (3-4, 2-1 MCL) opened with a 2-0 lead on a Shalee Gottschalk field goal but Hoxie answered with a 7-0 run and led by five twice in the first quarter at 7-2 and 9-4.
TMP trimmed the deficit to 9-6 at the end of the first quarter and then took the lead to open the second, outscoring Hoxie 7-3.
It was Brooke Koenigsman’s three pointer that put TMP up 13-12 early in the second quarter. But that was the last lead TMP had.
Hoxie led by one at halftime and one again to open the third quarter, at 20-19, but they then held TMP scoreless for the rest of the third quarter and put together a 27-2 run to go up 47-21 in the fourth quarter.
The Indians went on to the 50-29 victory, ending a four-game losing streak to TMP.
TMP’s Brooke Koenigsman scored a team-high seven points. Hoxie’s Emily Bainter and Josey Kennedy each scored 15 points.
BOYS: TMP 54, Hoxie 45
The TMP boys build a 20-point second half lead but had to
hold on down the stretch for a 54-45 victory.
The game started with neither team able to build much of a lead. There were five ties and seven lead changes before TMP (2-5, 2-1 MCL) secured a 13-11 lead at the end of the first quarter on back-to-back Caden Dinkel field goals.
TMP extended their lead to 20-13 early in the second quarter on a Ty Schmeidler three-pointer, Schmeider scored 11 of his 14 points in the second quarter.
Hoxie (2-4, 0-3 MCL) was able to cut the lead back to two after a five-point possession but after at TMP timeout the Monarchs scored the next nine and led 29-18.
They built a 15 point lead at halftime at 35-20 thanks to the third three pointer of the quarter by Schmeidler.
The Monarchs lead grew to 20, at 45-25 in the third quarter but Hoxie finished the third quarter and opened the fourth outscoring TMP 18-2 trimming the lead to four points at 47-43.
The Monarchs though made just enough free throws down the stretch on their way to the 54-45 victory.
Schmeidler and Dinkel tied for a game-high 14 points each.
TMP is off until after the New Year when they host Sacred Heart and January 5th.