Playing its most consistent game of the season, Harper’s women’s basketball team recorded a 51-41 victory over Oakton Community College.
“Today we played two solid halves of basketball,” said Harper Head Coach Mark Smith. “We’ve been getting tired and playing inconsistently as a result, but we played better overall for 40 minutes in this game.”
Leading the way for Harper was Peggie Parhas with 24 points, 7 rebounds and 7 steals, Noreen Davis with 12 rebounds, 5 points and 4 steals, and Anna Kirchoff adding 16 points.
“Oakton likes to slow things down and try to run as much time off the clock as they can,” says Smith, “and that allowed us to rely on basically 5 players, with 3 standout performances coming from Noreen, Peggie and Anna.”
“We lost to [Oakton] earlier in the year by two points at their place,” said Smith, “and we all kind of felt like we should have won that game. So we used that as motivation for today’s game. This was on our court and we were going to use that to our advantage – it really came down to who wanted it more.”
“This was our second win a row and, overall, this was a very good win for us,” concluded Smith.
The Lady Hawks now stand at 8-5 overall and 8-4 in Region IV action. Next up is a trip to Waubonsee for a game on Thursday, December 17th with tip-off set for 5:00 PM