IMS Girls defeated by English Valley

For the second straight night, the IMS Girl’s basketball team found themselves on a floor with a basketball between 10 people. This time, traveling to English Valleys High School to take on the Bears for a non-conference game.
First half of play was mostly even, with the Bears holding a slight advantage (6-3) at the end of the first quarter. However, in the second EV started to pull away, extending that lead to 23. Dismal shooting by IMS left them down 9-23 at half-time.
The shooting woes continued in the second half for Iowa Mennonite as they only managed to score five more points. However, it was not from a lack of effort. IMS had good open looks, just found the rims unforgiving. They would close out the night with a loss, 50-14.
Scoring, though bleak, was led by junior Carly Unruh with five, while juniors Mollie Ferguson, Mo Brenneman, Emma Yutzy and Aliese Gingerich added two a piece.
The schedule doesn’t get any easier for Iowa Mennonite, as the final week of regular season competition is heavy laden with SEISC teams. Monday, the teams travel to Lone Tree for a “pre-Christmas blizzard” reschedule. On Tuesday the ladies will travel east again to take on the Wildcats of Columbus, looking to avenge their three point loss on alumni night. After a day-long break, they travel to south division West Burlington for a junior varsity, varsity match up, and on Friday IMS will face Highland in the Husky territory.