Host North Mahaska takes down Tigerhawks

NEW SHARON — The Colfax-Mingo girls basketball team got off to a slow start against North Mahaska on Tuesday night and never recovered.

Sophomore Payton Rhone hit four 3-pointers and scored a season-high 14 points, and senior Dakota Hostetter grabbed 13 rebounds, but the Tigerhawks lost to North Mahaska 49-32 in South Iowa Cedar League action.

Hostetter scored five points and had three steals, while senior Amy Russell scored three points, grabbed six rebounds and finished with three steals.

The Tigerhawks trailed 14-7 after one quarter and the deficit grew to 12 at halftime. North Mahaska held Colfax-Mingo to three points in the third quarter. The Tigerhawks (0-2 overall, 0-1 in SICL action) outscored the Warhawks 15-11 in the fourth quarter, but it was too little too late.

Kassidi Steel led North Mahaska (2-1, 2-0) with 15 points, while Cheyenne Shaw scored seven.

Three other Warhawk players tallied six points apiece.

BOYS

North Mahaska 63,

Colfax-Mingo 52

Twelve first-half turnovers put the Tigerhawks behind the eight ball in their season opener against North Mahaska on Tuesday night.

Colfax-Mingo trailed by as many as 15 points in the third quarter, rallied back to get within single digits two different times before the Warhawks hit several late free throws to put the game away in the final minutes.

Junior Jarod Nichols got off to a fast start before an ankle injury forced him to leave the game in the second quarter.

Nichols finished with six points and five rebounds in about 10 minutes of game time but did not return after the injury. His status in the near future is still unknown, according to Colfax-Mingo coach Nick Noring.

“We went to an all-guard lineup after Jarod went down, and the boys fought hard,” Noring said. “We had some first-game jitters and just committed too many turnovers in the first half.”

Junior Jonathan Jacobs scored 12 points, grabbed six rebounds and dished out four assists to lead the way for the Tigerhawks (0-1 overall, 0-1 in the SICL), while junior Alex Lewis added 10 points and six assists.

Junior Reegan Van Dyke chipped in nine points and seven rebounds, sophomore Holister Koenig scored seven points and junior Misha Seebeck tallied five steals and four assists.

Both Colfax-Mingo teams host HLV in an SICL varsity doubleheader starting at 6 p.m. Friday.