Game Details 

Score: Hesston College Larks 60 | Kansas City Kansas Community College 84

Records: Hesston College (11-17) (1-11) | Kansas City Kansas Community College (21-9) (8-4)

Location: Kansas City, MO - 6:00 pm

Kansas City, MO -  The Women's Basketball season came to a close for the Hesston Larks on Monday evening losing in the first round of the KJCCC D2 tournament 84-60 to the Kansas City Kansas Community College Blue Devils. 

The leading scorer for Hesston was sophomore Kelsey Koza with 18 points going 4-for-8 from the 3-pt line. Freshman Norika Welch also had a good game putting in 17 points and three assists. The only other double digit scorer was Kaley Phillips with 11 points. 

The Blue Devils had five in double digit scoring including Jones, Bradley, and Rogers with 16 a piece. Hesston had a five point lead in the first minute, and then KCKCC never looked back, winning by 24 points.  

Hesston had a great second quarter scoring 24 points and shooting 47 percent from the field as a team to go into halftime down by 13. In the second half the Larks only scored 25 additional points. 

 This Hesston team finished the 2023/24 season with an 11-17 record under first year coach Vinncent DeLisio This is a one game improvement over the year prior when the team finished 10-18. 

Turning Point

The 13 point deficit for Hesston at the end of the first quarter proved to be too much to overcome.  

Lark Leaders*

*#10 Kaley Phillips: 18 pts | 4 reb | 1 ast | 1 stl*

#1 Norika Welch: 17 pts | 4 reb | 3 ast | 1 blk | 1 stl

Inside the Box Score

KCKCC had 42 points in the paint on the night.