Check the play-by-play<\/a>.)<\/p>\nSmid, a 5-11 sophomore forward, had arguably the greatest 20-second stretch ever in Iowa high school girls basketball to help the Fillies beat Norwalk in a Class 4A semifinal game at Casey’s Center in Des Moines.<\/p>\n
Trailing 42-36 with 40 seconds left, Smid kicked off her clutch performance with a layup. <\/p>\n
42-38 Norwalk.<\/p>\n
After a Warriors turnover, Smid scored on an inbounds play with 32 seconds left. <\/p>\n
42-40 Norwalk.<\/p>\n
Smid stole the ensuing inbounds pass and scored with 22 seconds remaining. <\/p>\n
Tie game: 42-42.<\/p>\n
One second later she stole the inbounds pass again and scored, drawing a foul this time. <\/p>\n
44-42 Dallas Center-Grimes. <\/p>\n
Late-game highlights: Ava Smid powers Dallas Center-Grimes past Norwalk<\/strong><\/p>\nSmid missed the free throw but, for those counting, that was 8 points in 19 seconds of game play to put the Fillies, who closed the game on an 11-0 run, up for good. <\/p>\n
Smid played 31 of the 32 minutes and had a team-high 16 points to go along with 6 steals and 5 rebounds in what will forever be known as The Ava Smid Game.<\/p>\n
No. 2 Dallas Center-Grimes (23-2) will play No. 5 Carlisle (25-1) in the 4A title game at 2:30 p.m. Saturday.<\/p>\n
Video above courtesy of Dallas Center-Grimes Community School District<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"You have to see what Dallas Center-Grimes forward Ava Smid did Thursday to believe it. And, even then,…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":636076,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5135],"tags":[5229,270995,47372,3953,270998,1596,270994,1910,1531,270996,270997,270992,471,112018,449,5613,270993,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,989],"class_list":["post-636075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-america","tag-ava-smid-score","tag-casey","tag-center","tag-class-4a-semifinal-game","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-center-grime","tag-game","tag-good","tag-inbound","tag-iowa-girl-basketball","tag-iowa-girls-basketball","tag-no","tag-norwalk","tag-point","tag-second","tag-smid","tag-texas","tag-tx","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa","tag-video"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116181675893516017","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=636075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636075\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/636076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=636075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=636075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=636075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}