JEWELL – The rims that sit 10 feet above Coach Jim Marsh Court have been nothing but unfriendly to the South Hamilton girls’ basketball team this winter and, at this point in the relationship, the Hawks are ready to date other rims.

Hawks’ head coach Tony Woodall would personally replace the rims if he thought it would help. He’s tried just about everything else.

Shooting continued to sink South Hamilton during Tuesday night’s 46-34 non-conference loss to Gladbrook-Reinbeck. It took the Hawks more than 11 1/2 minutes to connect on their first field goal and they shot 19 percent overall (11 of 57) in losing for the 12th time in 13 outings.

“Shooting killed us again,” Woodall said. “We got some nice looks, especially in the fourth quarter, but we didn’t make them. When we get those looks we have to make them.”

Gladbrook-Reinbeck (2-12) – winners of back-to-back games after losing its first 12 contests – forced 17 turnovers and limited South Hamilton to just three first-half field goals in building a 30-14 advantage at the break.

Shooting woes aside, Woodall felt his team was flat from the moment the ball was thrown into the air. The Hawks might not have found the bottom of the bucket in the first quarter, but they went to the free throw line 11 times and yet still found themselves trailing by six after 8 minutes of play.

“It’s frustrating because we showed up with a lot of energy last Friday (in a 46-36 road loss to PCM),” Woodall said. “We didn’t show up (on Tuesday) with intensity, competitiveness and energy to start out the game.”

A 12-3 third quarter run by South Hamilton was buoyed by assertive play out of freshmen Rylee Woodall and Sydney Friest, and it didn’t hurt that Rebels’ leader Hayley Weber was forced to sit with four fouls for much of the period.

Diana Garcia canned one of her two 3-pointers just before the buzzer sounded at the end of the third to pull South Hamilton within 33-26.

With her team’s lead reduced significantly, Weber took over early in the fourth with seven of her game-high 19 points. She eventually fouled out with 3:57 remaining, but by then the Rebels had built an insurmountable 13-point cushion, 42-29.

Rylee Woodall and Friest accounted for all three of the Hawks’ first-half field goals. Woodall notched half of the team’s 14 points and finished with a team-best 12. Friest chipped in five points.

Tony Woodall elected to start his two rookies in the second half and put his veterans on notice.

“I’m happy with the way they played,” he said of the freshman duo. “They came with the energy that we didn’t have to start the game and that’s why we went with them in the second half.”

Anna Moss had just one field goal, but contributed in other ways – she had nine rebounds and six steals – in the loss. Autymn Olson added five points and seven boards. Garcia finished with seven points.

Weber also registered six rebounds and five steals for the Rebels.