Norwalk held a six-point lead over Dallas Center-Grimes with 46 seconds remaining during the girls high school basketball playoffs in the state of Iowa. It still lost.
Ava Smid led a remarkable comeback.
She pulled off one of the most insane high school basketball sequences you will ever see with six points in 12 seconds. The entire gym was stunned.
Norwalk held a six-point lead over Dallas Center-Grimes.
Norwalk High School is located roughly five miles south of Des Moines, Iowa. It serves approximately 1,035 students in Grades 9-12. Dallas Center-Grimes Community High School is located about 20 miles northwest of Des Moines. It enrolls approximately 950 students in Grades 9-12.
Both high school basketball programs compete on the 4A level of competition. They met in the semifinal round of the playoffs on Thursday night. The Warriors entered at 22-2. As did the Mustangs.
It was a huge matchup between the No. 1-seed and the No. 4-seed with a championship bid on the line.
Norwalk led the vast majority of the semifinal matchup. Dallas Center-Grimes trailed for the entirety of the first three quarters and the first seven minutes and 39 seconds of the fourth quarter.
The Warriors held a six-point lead over the Mustangs with less than one minute remaining in the game. They were up 42-38 with exactly 35 seconds left. And then the script completely flipped.
Ava Smid had the best 16-second sequence in Iowa high school basketball history.
Smid, a sophomore at Dallas Center-Grimes, hit an initial layup to get within two points of Norwalk with 32 seconds remaining in regulation. The clock does not stop in high school basketball so every second counts. Time continued to tick down closer to zero as the Warriors tried to get the ball back in play.
Smid stole the ensuing inbound pass and made another layup to tie the game!
If that was not crazy enough, she stole the next inbound pass and dropped in another layup to give the Mustangs the lead. It was their first lead of the entire game with only 21 seconds left.
“It was the quickest six points I’ve ever witnessed in my life, just crazy,” said head coach Adam Jones. “I mean, Norwalk, they were fantastic, and we just found a way in the end. I’m just so proud of our girls, and I’m speechless.”
Here is how it looked on the broadcast:
Tonight at the @IGHSAU state semifinals pic.twitter.com/xclGPZhfr7
— Andy Pollock (@knightsnclones) March 6, 2026
Here is how it looked from the floor:
NUTS! @dcgactivities trailed Norwalk by 2 in the final minute. Ava Smid scored off the inbounds play, stole the Norwalk inbounds and scored, then stole the Norwalk inbounds AGAIN and scored AGAIN. 6 points in 12 seconds. DCG goes on to win 47-42. Vid by DCG pic.twitter.com/9jgtAu4n7b
— Scott Reister (@scottreister) March 6, 2026
Ava Smid scored six points in 12 seconds to give Dallas Center-Grimes a lead it would not give back. The Mustangs went on to seal the win at the free throw line by a final score of 47-42. They will advance to the state championship game against No. 6-seed Carlisle.
Smid scored a team-high 16 points in the win. The last six were the most important— and craziest!
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Iowa High School Basketball Star Spoils Dominant Win With Wild Sequence Of Six Points In Only 12 Seconds
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