Basketball Recap: Hinton Skates Past Carnegie with Ease

Hinton won the last time they faced Carnegie and things went their way on Friday too. The Hinton Comets breezed by the Carnegie Wildcats to the tune of 62-31. The win made it back-to-back victories for the Comets.

Carnegie's defeat shouldn't obscure the performances of Karlee Tohkofper, who almost dropped a double-double on 16 points and nine boards, and Taya Cole, who posted five points and seven rebounds. The dominant performance also gave Cole a new career-high in steals (two). Harley Gastineau also deserves some recognition as she posted her first block of the season.

Comets

Previous 5 Games

01/17/25 @ Carnegie	62-31
01/14/25 vs Binger-Oney	57-23
01/13/25 @ Thomas-Fay-Custer	32-50
01/11/25 vs Waukomis	29-53
01/07/25 vs Fort Cobb-Broxton	47-49

Hinton's win ended a four-game drought on the road and puts them at 6-8. As for Carnegie, this is the second loss in a row for them and nudges their season record down to 6-11.

Hinton has already played their next game (against Mountain View-Gotebo), but no score has been uploaded at the time of writing. Carnegie will get a bit of extra time to process the loss as their next game is a ways off. They'll take on Santa Fe South Pathways Middle College at 1:00 p.m. on January 28th.