Sometimes it is all about winning when it matters the most.
On the strength of a clutch district tournament basketball win, the Indianola Academy Lady Colonels will be joining their counterpart Colonels further into postseason play.
For this past Monday night, the fifth-seeded Lady Colonels earned a 39-24 victory over the fourth-seeded and tournament host Lady Irish of Greenville St. Joseph High School.
The victory enabled the now 2-19 IA girls to join the 10-10 Colonels in further district tournament play which continued Wednesday night.
While results of those games were unavailable at press time, the Lady Colonels took on top-seeded Winona Christian School.
Meanwhile, the third-seeded Colonels opened their postseason play by taking the court against the second-seeded Stars of Winona Christian School.
The girls’ district championship game for this tournament will occur at 6:30 p.m. and the boys game will follow at 7:45 p.m.
Consolation games will precede the title matches with the girls tipping off at 4 p.m. and boys at 5:30 p.m.
When the dust settles and the top four seeding out of this tournament is established, the IA squads will participate in next week’s North 4A Tournament.
Scheduled to begin next Tuesday, this upcoming tournament will be hosted by North Delta School of Batesville.
Game times and opponents for next week’s action are to be announced.
In the Lady Colonels’ big Monday night win over Greenville St. Joseph, the IA squad overcame an 18-14 halftime deficit to claim the game.
With defense coming to the forefront, the Lady Colonels limited the Lady Irish to only six points in the entire second half of the game.
Meanwhile, the IA offensive efforts posted 25 points on the scoreboard over the course of the final two periods of play to take the score to its final margin.
The Lady Colonels benefited from a pair of players reaching double-digit scoring status in the contest.
While Carly Moore’s 12 points led the scoring, Hannah Lloyd was close behind with her 10 point performance.
Just missing reaching double figure scoring was Leighton Lovelace, who completed her night’s play with nine points scored.
