Gladbrook-Reinbeck’s Kennedy Brant (14) goes up over North Tama’s Lydia Taylor for two of her career-high 28 points during last Thursday’s basketball game in Reinbeck. PHOTO BY JAKE RYDER

REINBECK – Gladbrook-Reinbeck galloped past North Tama in a 61-21 girls basketball blowout at G-R High School last Thursday night ahead of the Christmas holiday.

G-R improved to 8-3 overall while North Tama slipped to 4-6.

Kennedy Brant scored a career-best 28 points to lead the Rebels and Elly Sieh added 16 points.

“We came out very aggressive tonight,” Brant said. “There’s so many different ways that we can score and every girl on our team has had a 14 or 15 point night, so you never know who’s going to go out there. We’re connecting with good passes throughout and just running, running, running.”

G-R outscored the Redhawks 15-4 in the first quarter and didn’t look back, tacking on a 14-0 run coming out of the locker room for the second half.

“When we can score points and then be in our press, that’s a good cycle to be in,” G-R head coach Amber Gerringer said. “The girls did a really good job of handling the ball and getting it inside, and then rebounding it well, getting offensive rebounds and just keep putting it up until it goes in.”

Ava Breakenridge and Adelyn Sienknecht led the Redhawks with six points each. (Sienknecht recently transferred from GMG to North Tama.)

“A game like this we just have to flush away and come in with the attitude that we have to maybe be in a little better shape, have to do a better job rebounding and focusing on better boxing out which will get us better opportunities for rebounding,” North Tama head coach Harold Youngblut said.