Mickey Hansche and Haley Lorenzen scored 18 points apiece and No.6 Iowa City High rolled past Linn-Mar, 60-32, Friday night in a Mississippi Valley Conference girls basketball game at Linn-Mar.

Iowa City High improved to 13-2 overall and 6-1 in the Mississippi Division.Linn-Mar is 6-8, 4-4 in the Valley Division.

“We’re a work in progress on defense,” City High Coach Bill McTaggart said. “The key to our victory was that we played better defense tonight and Linn-Mar was cold in their shooting.”

Linn-Mar opened the scoring on a Mykaela Brandt field goal and Linn-Mar built a 5-4 lead.

But City High scored the next 22 points to take a 26-5 lead in the second quarter. The Little Hawks led at the half, 34-9, and continued their domination in the second half.

Coach Mike Brandt said he was hopeful that his squad would relax and play its game.

“We wanted to identify the roles of our players and if we can shoot well we will have good results," Brandt said.

Coach McTaggart also mentioned that he wanted more production from his bench and seven players got in the scoring column for the Little Hawks, but only four points came out of reserves.

Lorenzen, who is third in the state in Class 5A in rebounding with a 10.1 average, had 11 rebounds.  She also came into the building with a season total of 22 blocked shots.

IOWA CITY, CITY HIGH  (60):  Kiera Washpun  2  1-2  5,  Brie Hightshoe  0  0-0  0,  Sam Blowers  0  0-0  0,  Peyton Koenig  0  0-0  0, Claire Crew  1  0-0  2,  Mickey Hansche  7  2-2  18,  Courtney Joens  2  2-2  8,  Haley Lorenzen  7  4-8  18, Aliyah Gustafson  3  1-1  7, Loshika Embery  1  0-0  2.  Totals  24  10-15  60.

LINN-MAR (32):  Hannah Yearling  1  0-0  3,   Mykaela Brandt  3  1-2  8,  Michal Christopher  0  1-2  1, Sara Strauel  0  0-0  0,  Jenna Harms  0  0-0  0,  Aryn Jones  1  1-2  3,  Kristin Eiles  1  1-2  4,  Anna Foley  1  0-0  2,  Courtney Major  1  0-0  3,  Alexis Libenguth  4  0-0  8.  Totals   12  4-8  32.

Halftime - City High 34,  Linn-Mar 9. 3-point goals - City High 4 (Hansche 2, Joens 2),  Linn-Mar 4  (Brandt, Yearling, Eiles, Major). Fouled out - Strauel.