Overview
- Dallas Center-Grimes trailed 42-36 with about 40 seconds left before Ava Smid tied it and then put her team ahead with consecutive steals on inbound passes.
- The sequence totaled eight points in roughly 19 seconds and flipped the Iowa Class 4A semifinal at Casey’s Center in Des Moines.
- Smid finished with a team-high 16 points, six steals and five rebounds as DCG closed out Norwalk 47-42.
- No. 2 DCG (23-2) advanced to face No. 5 Carlisle on Saturday in the state championship game.
- Norwalk’s Braylyn Birmingham scored a reported game-high 26 points, according to Larry Brown Sports.