Alex's Hosier scores 1,000th point as Tigers remain unbeaten
Nov. 16—ALEXANDRIA — Late in his senior year at Alexandria, Mickey Hosier scored his 1,000th career point at Hamilton Heights before venturing off to a successful career at Ball State.
Twenty-seven years later, on Thursday, his daughter Jacklynn joined the 1,000-point club but did it in just the fifth game of her junior season, putting her well on pace to exceed her father and coach's final total of 1,161 points.
"I don't know if it was that much, was it? I'm just kidding," Jacklynn Hosier said. "We're going for 2,000, going big."
"Jack and I are just different players," Coach Hosier said with a smile. "I think what helped her was that it was a good game and she had to play a certain way for us tonight. It's cool as her dad. It's cool as her coach. I've seen her put the work in to get to this point and be in position to do that, and — we talked about this in the locker room — when a player is reaching 1,000 points, it means the program is doing something right."
Hosier entered the night needing 31 points to reach the career milestone and finished with 35, leading Class 2A ninth-ranked Alexandria past Yorktown by a convincing 60-43 score
Alexandria remained unbeaten at 5-0 while Yorktown fell to 3-1.
With 32 seconds left in the third quarter, the moment the fans came to see came to fruition as Hosier scored five straight points in the blink of an eye.
After grabbing an offensive rebound, she found her way to the 3-point line and drilled the shot to put her on the brink. At the other end, Hosier grabbed a Yorktown miss and dribbled the length of the floor before pulling up with a 10-foot wing jumper for her 1,000th point.
In the bigger picture, it also capped a 14-0 run that converted a 33-32 Yorktown lead into a commanding 46-33 Alexandria advantage.
As the ball fell through the net, her father called a timeout so she could be recognized, and she was mobbed by her teammates and cheered by the hometown crowd.
"It means so much more to be here on my home court," Jacklynn Hosier said. "The biggest thing was getting the win and getting to 5-0 before we go play the No. 2 team (Lapel) in the state. That was the most important thing."
After the timeout, Yorktown cut into the Alex lead as it pulled within seven at 50-43 on a pair of free throws from Alexis Fields.
But a baseline drive from Payton Pulley was followed by consecutive Hosier baskets before Trinity Ford put the game out of reach at 56-43 with a 3-point basket.
Also in typical fashion, Alexandria won with its defense as it forced 27 Yorktown turnovers — compared to 14 from Alexandria — and Hosier scored 20 of her 35 points in transition.
"That's a good team. We feel like that's the best team we've played, and we thought they would give us a good fight," Coach Hosier said. "We thought the way we play would kind of wear on them. We start with the press, then we went away from it, then when we came back to it in the second half, it really gave them some issues."
The biggest lead Yorktown mustered in the first half was just three points, doing so first at 7-4. But Hosier quickly evened the count with a three-point play. Olivia Jones buried a 3-pointer at the first-quarter buzzer for a 14-9 Alexandria advantage, its biggest lead of the half.
Yorktown later took a 26-23 lead late in the second quarter on an Olivia Conklin trey, but Abby Gaines beat the horn with a layup to send the game to intermission deadlocked at 26-26, with Hosier standing at 17 points.
Alexandria's junior varsity team remained undefeated with a 51-27 win over Yorktown. Stella Griffin led three Alex players in double-figures with 14 points while Natalie Littlefield and Avan McFall added 10 points each.
As mentioned by Jacklynn Hosier, Alexandria's next game comes Wednesday when it travels to Lapel to face the 2A second-ranked Bulldogs.
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