Lake Charles College Prep put the brakes on Iowa’s 13- game District 3-3A win streak as the Trail Blazers turned a close first half into a 74-60 win Tuesday night.

Prep (15-6, 2-0) took sole possession of the district lead with Iowa (16-3, 2-1) a game back and a rematch looming.

“We will enjoy it once I go back to the locker room, but it sets us up to where we control our own destiny,” LCCP head coach Sean Andrus said. “We do understand they will come back on Feb. 3 when we play them at our house.

“It is not over. They are a championship-pedigree team and well-coached team. We have to come out there ready to play come Feb. 3.”

Prep had three players score in double figures, led by Elijah Garrick’s 21 points. Ryan Batiste added 17 points and Martin Young finished with 14 points.

Down three points early in the second quarter, Prep started to pick apart Iowa with its defense. The Blazers forced Iowa to turn the ball over six times on eight possessions and used it to take a 38-31 lead.

Young got a steal and flipped the ball to Garrick, who put it in for a 31-27 lead. Donald Brown intercepted an Iowa pass with 2:22 left in the first half, and Young capped it off with a layup and a 38-31 lead.

“I credit that to our depth,” Andrus said. “Guys got into foul trouble, but guys stepped up. We have been doing that all year long. We preach that next-man-up mentality and strength in numbers, and I think it helped us out tonight in a tough game.

“They kept fighting. They didn’t want to lose. I told them that when you come into the champion’s house, you can’t expect somebody to lay down. We have to take it. (Iowa is) a championship team.”

Prep shot 26.1 percent in the first quarter before coming alive in the second, shooting 70 percent at one point before missing a few shots late in the first half and dropping to 46.7 percent.

Iowa’s Landon Langley tied it at 39-39 with a left-handed layup with 7:07 left in the third quarter, but Prep’s defense took over in the fourth quarter, holding the Yellow Jackets to 3-of-11 shooting.

Dashawn Ceaser led Iowa with 22 points, including 10 in the third quarter. Langley finished with 10 points, and Desamonte Gradney added 12.

Iowa went on a 10-4 run to go from four points down to up 22-20 with 6:43 left in the second quarter on a layup by Gradney during the run, and Ceaser made 4 of 4 free throws after a foul and technical foul on the Trailblazers.