The Highland basketball team has wrapped up non-conference play with their 20th consecutive win defeating the Southeast Community College Storm 111-41.

Mariane De Caravalho not only led the team with 26 points, nine rebounds, five assists, and four steals; she sealed the title of the first women's basketball player to score 1,000 points in their career at Highland and is the #1 All-Time leading scorer at Highland surpassing All-American Szonja Vuvok.

Sophomore Niccolly Ramalho put up big numbers on the Storm with nine points, nin assists, eight rebounds, and six steals while teammate Blaize Burgess dropped four threes and six assists on the game. Berniezha Tidwell stayed consistent for the Scotties scoring 21 points and coming up with five steals.

The team out rebounded the Storm 51-29 and more than tripled their assists numbers 32-6. 37 turnovers were forced and the Scotties doubled their field goal percentage shooting 50% to the Storm 23%.

"You cant learn to play hard for 40 minutes until you play hard for 40 minutes. These games when we're up a bunch...its about our conditioning level and our intensity. Intensity is something that you don't all of a sudden turn on, its something you have to build on and going to Labette, the biggest game of the year next Wednesday, it will be a 40 minute intense game and it will be a war. We have to step up and be more consistent with our effort," commented head coach BJ Smith after the win.

The #4 Highland Scotties (20-0) will travel to Parsons, KS on Wednesday, January 24th to face their first conference match-up against the #9 Labette Cardinals (15-2) at 5:30PM.