If you're a fan of close high school basketball outcomes and who isn't, the Lake Region Conference and potential Region 2B girls' rivalry between North Central and Ipswich last Tuesday in Ipswich should have been right up your alley.

Ipswich indeed held on for a 45-43 win over the Thunder. The visitors had just deadlocked this game for the upteenth time (11 times to be exact) and there were as many or more lead changes in the highly contested clash. But the Tigers had Halle Heinz create and she indeed drove into the lane and landed a soft floater with time running out. The Thunder were st...