Kimball Girls Survive Late Tigers Challenge, Improve To 9-2

At times on Tuesday night the Longhorns amassed leads comfortably in the double digits. Basketball, however, is game that rewards persistence—and there is one fact everyone in red and white agreed on.

“They’re a good team,” Danika Daum said of the visiting Tigers. “They’re fast.”

That Kimball held on the claim a 62-56 win had much to do with surprising touch from the line down the stretch and a few critical shots that stretched a lead here or stemmed a Mitchell rally there.

Early in the fourth quarter, Kelly Green corralled a Darbi Klinkhammer pass and banged it off the glass...