Iowa City West overcomes Hannah Stuelke’s 34-point outburst to beat Cedar Rapids Washington

IOWA CITY — Hannah Stuelke got hers, and then some.

“She’s phenomenal,” Iowa City West’s Emma Ingersoll-Weng said. “I wasn’t paying attention to how many points she was scoring, but I looked up at the end and thought, ‘Wow.’”

A University of Iowa signee, Stuelke scored 34 points — including all of Cedar Rapids Washington’s 21 in the second half. But Class 5A seventh-ranked West was more multidimensional and edged the No. 10 Warriors, 47-46, in a Mississippi Valley Conference girls’ basketball game Friday night at West High School.

The Trojans (2-0, 1-0 MVC) have opened their season against Algona Garrigan’s Audi Crooks, then Stuelke. They’ve prevailed against both.

“We’ve faced two studs,” West Coach B.J. Mayer said. “(Stuelke) is a load. She does so much for them.”

Ingersoll-Weng paced West with 19 points and five steals.

“I was just reading their eyes,” she said. “If my girl wasn’t in the passing lane, I’d jump it.

“We were trying to double down on Hannah and stay off everybody else.”

Stuelke made 13 of 21 shots from the floor, 8 of 12 from the free-throw line. Her last basket came off a missed free throw with four seconds left to cut the deficit to one, but the Warriors (2-1, 0-1) were out of timeouts, and the Trojans didn’t need to inbound the ball.

West led for the majority of the game, and the margin shifted from three points to five throughout the fourth quarter.

Lucy Wolf’s basket with 52 seconds left made it 47-42, but a pair of missed free-throw opportunities kept the door ajar.

Stuelke scored and was fouled with 0:22 to go, but missed the free throw, leaving it at 47-44.

Aeri Thomas was fouled with five seconds left, missed the foul shot and Stuelke gathered the rebound and hit a fadeaway.

“Honestly, I thought before the game that if we looked up at the end and she had 25 and nobody else had much, we’d be in good shape,” Mayer said.

Wolf added nine points for the Trojans.

“We can continue to get better,” Ingersoll-Weng said. “This was a good game for us. We can keep pushing ahead.”

Washington committed 18 turnovers, West nine.

Iowa City West 47, Cedar Rapids Washington 46

AT IOWA CITY WEST

C.R. WASHINGTON (46): Keara Powers 0-1 2-2 2, Aeri Thomas 2-6 0-3 6, Jaliea Havel 0-2 0-1 0, Hannah Stuelke 13-21 8-12 34, Deja Redmond 1-6 0-1 2, Jocelyn Doyle 1-3 0-0 2, Marie Jackson 0-0 0-0 0, Anna Peckosh 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 17-39 10-19 46.

IOWA CITY WEST (47): Lucy Wolf 3-6 2-4 9, Emma Ingersoll-Weng 8-18 0-2 19, Meena Tate 0-2 0-1 0, Melae Lacy 2-8 0-0 5, Anna Prouty 2-2 1-2 5, Avery Vest 1-4 2-2 4, Keiko Ono-Fullard 1-2 3-5 5, Carolyn Pierce 0-2 0-1 0. Totals 17-44 8-17 47.

C.R. Washington 9 16 9 12 — 46

Iowa City West 14 14 9 10 — 47

3-point goals: Washington 2-12 (Thomas 2-6, Havel 0-1, Stuelke 0-3, Doyle 0-2), West 5-23 (Wolf 1-2, Ingersoll-Weng 3-9, Tate 0-2, Lacy 1-6, Vest 0-3, Pierce 0-1). Team fouls: Washington 17, West 19. Fouled out: Lacy. Rebounds: Washington 32 (Redmond 9), West 28 (Wolf, Ingersoll-Weng, Tate 4). Assists: Washington 3 (Stuelke 2), West 6 (Ono-Fullard 3). Steals: Washington 5 (Stuelke, Doyle 2), West 11 (Ingersoll-Weng 5). Turnovers: Washington 18, West 9.

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