HAMPTON – Wide open or guarded tightly, it didn’t matter. Jordan Prantner was in one of those zones where the basket looked four feet wide Tuesday night.

The Hampton-Dumont senior shooting guard sizzled the nets by draining seven 3-pointers and pouring in 30 points to lead her ninth-ranked (Class 3A) Bulldogs to an easy 75-48 rout of North Central Conference rival Webster City.

The contest began more than 30 minutes later than scheduled. The officials contracted to work the game failed to show up and there was a brief period where the coaches mulled over the idea of postponing until early next week. Eventually all parties agreed to use the officials who worked the junior varsity contests.

Prantner rattled in five triples and notched 18 of her points in the opening half. She turned a good effort into an eye-popping one in the second quarter, which she opened by scoring a four-point play. Another 3 came from the corner just 1:45 into the period and five minutes later she connected on a bomb from Dumont – OK, not really, but it was from 23-plus feet from the left wing – to energize the home crown.

“We knew Prantner was going to be a shooter and we knew we had to get out on her, but if you give her an inch she’s going to take it,” WCHS head coach Nicole Muhlenbruch said. “I don’t even think she got hot, I think she’s just a really good shooter.”

Prantner averages 20.8 points and a shade under four 3-pointers per game.

It was no coincidence that Prantner’s second-quarter flurry occurred at the same time that Hampton-Dumont (5-0, 3-0 NCC) turned a close contest into a runaway.

WCHS (3-3, 2-1 NCC) pulled in front, 10-9, on its only trey of the game from Allie Flaws with 3 minutes remaining in the first period, but the Bulldogs scored the next 14 points in a span of 4 minutes, 47 seconds and built a 36-22 halftime lead.

The Lynx didn’t do themselves any favors with lazy passes against Hampton-Dumont’s aggressive defensive pressure out top. Too many times the Bulldogs picked off rainbow passes around the arc and went the other way on the break.

WCHS finished with 25 turnovers.

“We had fewer turnovers than we did at Iowa Falls (last Friday), but this one was more frustrating because if we were crisper with the passes we could have beaten (the pressure) and scored baskets,”?Muhlenbruch said.

Going against an all-guard lineup, WCHS had an overwhelming size advantage, but was unable to capitalize.

Jessica Speake, the other part of the league’s premier backcourt, helped Prantner out in the third quarter with a pair of 3’s, as the edge expanded to as many as 28.

Back-to-back buckets by Cassidy Bultena midway through the third, as well as consecutive makes by Flaws in the final 30 seconds, helped the Lynx close to within 21, 57-36.

Flaws scored a team-high 11 points and Bultena dropped in 10. Devyn VanKooten came off the bench and played well with eight points. Gabbi Hoversten did a little bit of everything; she finished with six points and led the squad in rebounds (11), assists (four) and steals (two).

Callie Grover notched 14 points and Speake finished with 12 for the Bulldogs.

Muhlenbruch said there were things to build on in the loss as the Lynx prepare to host Clarion-Goldfield-Dows on Friday. But the coach says her club needs to find consistency.

“There were times we looked really good and times we stunk it up,” she said. “I told the girls that we have to get rid of those times we stunk it up, we just have to.”

Friday’s final game before the New Year will tip off at 6:15 p.m.