Howard Hawks basketball look dominate in victory
If Monday's game against the Strength N Motion Icemen is an indication of what's to come, the Howard College Hawks are ready for the conference side of the schedule. After taking a holiday break, the Hawks geared themselves by romping to a 9346 win Monday afternoon at Dorothy Garrett Coliseum.
The win gives the Hawks a 9-5 overall record. They played two conference games before the holiday break, losing to Midland College and defeating Western Texas College. Thursday they travel to Levelland to take on South Plains (7-6,1-0) and Saturday
they will host New Mexico Military (7-6, 1-1) at Dorothy Garrett at 2 p.m.
Coach Scott Raines, who will be in his last season at Howard, is looking forward to the remainder of Western Junior Athletic play. "Obviously this is my last year with my wife (Kelly) taking a new job. I really like our chances. I think we can play with anyone in this conference," Raines said.
Like they have all season, the Hawks relied on a pesky manto-man defense mixed in with occasional full court trapping defense. it worked to perfection, forcing the Icemen into 23 turnovers, Combine that with the hot shooting of guard Jacoby Bishop Howard simply overwhelmed the Icemen.
Bishop, from New Waverly, had a career game, knocking down nine three pointers to finish with 30 points. He took 14 shots and only missed four. Teammates D'Miri Wiltz and Ciro made sure he got the ball. Baeza is a Midland native who played high school ball at Midland Trinty.
SNM played Howard close for the first six minutes of the game, only trailing 16-11. Howard outscored the Icemen 40-15 the rest of the half to take a 56-26 advantage into halftime. Howard shot the ball very well in the first half, 21 of 35 from the floor. For the game the Hawks made 36 of 67 shots for 53 percent.
Bonny Udoh, a sophomore post player from Amarillo Palo Duro has his usual consistent game, making all six of his field goal attempts for 12 points to go along with six rebounds.
Rupp Kalawole was the only Icemen in double figures with 10 points.
"We played really well today,' said Raines. "I thought our defense was really good. We really never practiced in December. We came back on the 29th, so we had five days. We mostly scrimmaged. We play good defense. Sometimes we struggle with having enough offense to win games though."
That sure wasn't the case Monday afternoon. HOWARD (93) - Rahkiem Petterson 2 1 5; D'Miri Wiltz 1 0 2; Jacoby Bishop 10 1 30; TK Bryant 2 0 4; Evert Lamar 2 2 6; Ognjen Lamanovis 3 0 7; Ciro Baeza 2 0 5; Morrison Hsu 1 0 2; 3; Nestor Dyachok 4 0 9; Bonny Udoh 6 0 12; Brandon Andrews 1 2 4; totals
STRENGTH N MOTION - Oiris Mahy 3 0 7; Liam Cantry 3 0 7; Niko Smith 1 1 3; Darryl Scott 0 1 1; Jayleen Streeter 0 4 4; Kevin Rankin 2 0 4; Chris Benson 4 0 9; Nasar Deruy1 0 2; Rupp Kalahole 5 0 10; totals 17-55, 6-7 46.
Halftime - Howard 56, SNM 26.
Turnover - Howard 14, SNM 23; Rebounds - Howard 27 (Wiltz 8, Udoh 6, Petterson 6); SNM 21 (Mahr 5, Johnson 5); Three Pointers - Howard (Bishop 9, Bryant 2, Lamanovis 1, Hsu 1, Dyachok 1, Andrews 1); SNM (Benson 1); Assists - Howard (Wiltz 8, Besa 4); SNM (Streeter 4, Deruy 2) ; Steals - Howard (Bryant 2, Udoh 2) SNM (Kalawhole 2); Blocked shots - Howard Udoh 1, Cantry 1, Johnson 1).