REEVES — Kinder struggled to find a rhythm on the offensive side but rebounded in the second half to pull away from Reeves for a 56-39 nondistrict girls basketball win Tuesday night.

Kinder almost doubled its shooting percentage in the second half to 44.8 percent.

“We went in at halftime and set the girls down and told them that what we were doing that first half was not working,” Kinder head coach Taylor Breaux said. “So we drew up a few different things and they came out and ran it.

“We did not play our offense like we normally do. We bunched up and we didn’t spread the floor like we normally do. But it is all right. We pulled it together and we got the win.”

Kinder (8-1) opened the second half with a 7-0 run, including 3-pointers by Tanyjah Plumber and Aaliyah Tahahwah for a 27-16 lead with 6:23 left in the third quarter.

Reeves (10-3) got within 29-22 on a Lanie Richard bucket with 2:39 left in the third, but the Yellow Jackets reeled off a 14-5 run to push their lead to 43-27 with 6:03 left in the game.

Tahahwah scored eight of her game-high 19 points, including 4-for-4 from the free-throw line, in the fourth quarter. Mackenzie Joseph added seven points after sitting out most of the third quarter in foul trouble. Joseph had a double-double with 10 points and 13 rebounds and helped the Yellow Jackets outrebound Reeves 49-21. Tahahwah had six rebounds and four steals, and Plumber finished with 14 points.

“It was really rough when (Joseph) got into foul trouble,” Breaux said. “She helps run our offense. (Jessica Savant) came off the bench and ran the floor well.

“Joseph is a big part of our offense. She came out with a chip on her shoulder, and she ran it.”

Reeves went into the game on a six-game win streak but missed its first 13 shots before Maddie Ford’s layup with 30 seconds left in the first quarter cut Kinder’s lead to 6-2.

The Raiders have had to rely on their 3-point shooting since forward Faith Cauthron suffered a preseason injury. And they were able to use it to make a run in the second quarter, cutting Kinder’s lead to 11-10 on a 3-pointer by Lanie Richard. But the Raiders hit 6 of 32 3s for the game. Richard led Reeves with 11 points, and Ford finished with 10 points and nine rebounds.

“Since we lost our big girl (Faith Cauthron) before the season, we are a guard-oriented team, a perimeter-oriented team,” Reeves head coach Mark Dronet said. “We live and die by the three.

“It is a make-andmiss game. We have to get a little bit better at attacking the goal, and I need to do a better job of coaching that. At the end of the day, I thought we had a whole bunch of open looks, and it just didn’t go in. That is basketball sometimes — you run a good play or have a good concept, you get an open shot and you miss it.”