REINBECK – Three first-half fouls limited Anna Kvidera’s time on the floor and her impact on the game through the first two quarters Saturday.

Given a second chance after intermission, the Redhawks’ leading scorer made sure her minutes didn’t go to waste.

Scoring 10 of her game-high 14 points in the third quarter, Kvidera keyed a 10-2 run to close the period as the North Tama girls basketball team secured its 12th straight victory in a 49-34 win over Gladbrook-Reinbeck. Abbie Schafer added 13 points off the bench, Madison Howard had nine and Jessi Jacobs chipped in eight as the Redhawks (17-1) outscored the Rebels 23-2 over a 7-minute span bridging the final two frames.

“Anna is just really, really aggressive,” Redhawk coach Phil Moss said. “She’s got a little bit of that killer instinct to go after people, which is nice to have. The more players you have that have that, the better you are.”

That aggressiveness came with a price early as foul troubles earned Kvidera a seat on the bench and eventually drew a technical foul out of Moss for frustration of the foul discrepancy. The Rebels moved into a one-and-one situation for the final 6:47 of the first half with just one foul against them.

“It was a little lopsided for fouls the first half,” Moss said. “We came out to play aggressive and probably a little bit more than what the refs wanted us to play. The second half when we adjusted it went well.”

Neither team led by more than five through a neck-and-neck first 2 1/2 quarters of play, before Kvidera triggered the Redhawks’ surge.

Hayley Weber caught a lob inside and converted a three-point play to give G-R a 27-26 edge with 2:49 left in the third, though the Rebels never led again. Kvidera dashed down the floor on a coast-to-coast drive that yielded two free throws just seven seconds later. She followed with a three-point play of her own and poked away a steal before her putback beat the buzzer to build a 36-29 advantage.

The North Tama senior started the fourth with another hard drive for two, assisted Alyssa Wrage on a 3-pointer and ripped away a couple more loose balls as North Tama’s big burst widened the margin to 49-29 with 3:29 to play. The Rebels went more than six minutes without scoring and over eight without a field goal as the Redhawks threw a variety of looks at G-R.

“We made some mistakes, threw the ball away a couple times and traveled,” G-R coach Scott Crandall said. “The players just kind of got down on themselves tonight and it seemed to snowball. I still thought we were getting pretty good looks up through the middle of the third quarter and coming out of halftime I figured if we could score first or get a little bit of a lead going then we’d be right there with them. That’s a very good team and once they get the lead, they’re very good at extending leads and the defensive pressure tightens up a little for them.”

Schafer posed a problem for the Rebels (8-10) inside on the glass and created several second-chance buckets for North Tama.

Whether it was zone, a full-court press or a junk defense that shifted Wrage to shadow the Rebel’s Hanna Christopher, the Redhawks kept the home team off balance more often than not in the second half.

“Our girls are athletic enough that I think we can run a couple of different series for defenses which gives us different looks to see what other teams can play,” Moss said. “The girls just play really, really hard. They play with a lot of heart and they play as a team.”

Christopher sparked G-R with 10 points and Weber had six as the Rebels were unable to capitalize on their free-throw advantage making just 9-of-25. North Tama finished 7-of-15.

“We’re scrappy but we’re a little undersized and we need a little better boxing out and a little more aggression on the boards,” Crandall said. “We hung with them for a while and it’s something we can certainly build on with a couple other tough teams coming up on our schedule.”

That road starts with a trip to rival Grundy Center on Tuesday.

North Tama’s lone blemish of the season came on the road against undefeated Class 1A No. 2 Colo-NESCO in a 47-42 setback on Dec. 16. The Redhawks have a chance at redemption at home on Tuesday and the first priority in a different result rests in taking care of the ball.

“I think we had 17 turnovers in the first half,” Moss said of the first meeting. “Take away some of those turnovers and a little bit better ball control and you have a different game. We’ll just focus on making sure that we play our normal game and just take care of the ball.”