Lake Highlands women’s basketball cruised to a 78-12 victory against Irving at home on Friday.
Lake Highlands women’s basketball sets up its offense in a 78-12 victory against Irving on January 16, 2026 at Lake Highlands High School.
The Wildcats (17-9, 4-1 District 7-6A), following a 58-36 win at Richardson on Tuesday, extended their winning streak against Irving to eleven games. Since joining the same district ahead of the 2020-2021 season, Lake Highlands has been unbeaten by the Tigers (9-15, 0-6).
It wasn’t until late in the second quarter that Irving was able to record its first points on a banked-in 3-pointer from Jayleanis Muiz Mejias. Facing a 41-3 deficit, the score didn’t make the Wildcats’ win any less inevitable. By halftime, Lake Highlands led 54-7.
The sequence most emblematic of how the overall game went came midway through the second quarter. After Wildcat guard Reid Ragsdale missed inside, forward Carys Winburne grabbed the rebound and put it back up for a score.
Irving set up to inbound, but the pass was stolen by Lake Highlands and Ragsdale converted on a layup. Inbounding again, the Tigers turned it over and Ragsdale laid it in again.
On Irving’s next attempt to get the ball in bounds, the Wildcats pressured across the floor and the Tigers’ inbound pass sailed out of bounds.
For Lake Highlands, Brystol Steeley continued her hot shooting from behind the arc. After going scoreless in the first quarter, she hit three 3-pointers in the second. Steeley cooled down in the third but was back like she never left in the fourth.
In the final frame, Steeley hit another three triples and converted on a floater inside the paint. She led all scorers with 20 points.
Not much else of note occurred, the Wildcats leading handily from start to finish. Besides a bizarre moment in the fourth when Irving’s head coach, Chelsey Johnson-Weaver, appeared to have a brief argument with the game’s scorekeeper, causing a stoppage, everything went smoothly for Lake Highlands.
Everyone who touched the floor for the Wildcats found the basket. Ragsdale contributed 13, knocking down a three along the way. Veda Schulze canned three consecutive 3-pointers in the second and finished with nine.
Hailey Cramer added eight. Beatrice Elliott, Kate Duffield and Evelyn Elliott each scored six points. Winburne and Molly Lynch finished with four, with Sally Chancey’s two points rounding out the scoring.
Irving was led by Ziaria Williams, who scored six.
The Tigers will host Richardson (5-16, 3-1) next Friday, with tip-off against the Eagles scheduled for 6:30 p.m. in Irving.
Lake Highlands will next play at 7 p.m. Tuesday at home against JJ Pearce (10-15, 5-0), who defeated the Wildcats 38-31 earlier this season.
