Vikings fall to No. 8 Komets

Published 10:20 pm Thursday, January 12, 2012

The Hayfield girls basketball team fell to Kasson-Mantorville 60-51 in Hayfield Thursday.

The Komets (15-0 overall), who are ranked No. 8 in Class ‘AAA,’ hit all 11 of their free throws in the second half to put the game away.

Hayfield (6-8 overall) rallied to tie the game at 37 with nine minutes to go, but then it committed three straight turnovers to fall behind again.

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“All of the sudden we didn’t score for four minutes and then we were chasing seven points again,” Hayfield head coach Fred Kindschy said.