After setting the single-game scoring record as well as becoming the school's all-time leading rebounder earlier this season, the sophomore on Minnesota West's women's basketball team reached one more on Wednesday: 1,000-point scorer.

Ihnen scored 23 points in West's 90-42 win over St. Cloud Tech to become just the fifth player in Lady Jay history to eclipse the 1,000-point plateau.

"It's an unbelievable feeling, especially in two years, which is something I never did in four years in high school. It's pretty special," Ihnen said. "It's like a dream to me. It's not something I planned to do, obviously. It's not even a goal I had. I never even planned it, it just kind of came to me with the help of my teammates. It's something I'm very thankful for."

And while Ihnen will leave Minnesota West as one of the best players in school history, that fact hasn't hit her quite yet.

"I don't think it will sink in for a long time when I actually look back and I'm like, 'Whoa,'" she said.

Ihnen needed 14 points entering Wednesday's game, and with four minutes, 57 seconds remaining in the third quarter, she took a pass in the post and put it up and through like she's done so many times before. But this shot was different as it pushed her over the career mark.

"On social media all day, everybody keep tweeting at me. Everybody knew I was 14 points away. Then I was getting close, I was like, 'Don't mess it up,'" Ihnen said. "It was a big relief. It's just a great feeling. Then when I finally got it, I was relaxed. I'm sure you could tell, you could see on my face I was like, 'Thank you.'"

Coming off Saturday's loss at Anoka-Ramsey, West played like it had something to prove Wednesday night as it jumped out to a 24-9 lead after the first quarter and a 44-16 advantage at halftime.

"It was kind of a reality check for us though," MW sophomore Andrea Hinkeldey said. "We came out and we were doing the things, but we kind of forgot about the little things such as rebounding. Rebounding is huge. If a lot of teams are getting offensive rebounds, they are getting more chances. And if they get more chances than us, we aren't going to come out on top. That was our main thing tonight to focus on was making sure we rebounded and boxed out. We did a lot better."

The Lady Jays controlled the boards throughout the game, out rebounding the Cyclones 53-35. Ashlynn Wabeke led MW with 10 rebounds, while Ihnen and nine and Hinkeldey had eight.

The Cyclones, who lost to MW 78-71 earlier this year, shot 20.6 percent from the field in the game.

"I hope that's a little bit of our defense," Lady Jay head coach Rosalie Hayenga-Hostikka said. "They like to spread it out a little bit, which is a tougher matchup for us. They drive and shoot 3s. I thought we did a much better job of helping on the drive and getting out and getting a hand up on the 3s. I was happy with our defense, for sure."

MW kept pushing throughout the entire game, outscoring St. Cloud Tech 20-10 in the third quarter and capped the 48-point win with a strong fourth.

"I think our mental psyche was a little messed up. Give Anoka credit, they took us out of a lot of things, I just didn't feel like we played very well," Hayenga-Hostikka said. "(Tonight) we said I don't care what the score is, we're playing hard and we have to get back to doing some things like we know we can. No better way to do that."

Hinkeldey led West with 26 points as all seven players scored. Emily Haubrich finished with 19 points and six assists. M'Kayla Mike had six steals and five assists.

"We had our guards who were on, we had our posts who were on," Hinkeldey said. "If you have four or five people in double digits, no one is going to stop you. On our team, we have two big posts, all of our guards can shoot, even our wings. Ashlynn had a couple good ones tonight, Emily had some good ones tonight and when it all comes together as a team, we're going to be hard to stop."

Offensively, MW shot 17 for 30 from the field (56.7 percent) in each half.

"It's a good time to be shooting well," Hayenga-Hostikka said. "I thought we moved the ball well and set some good screens. We took some good shots and I don't think we forced a lot of shots. For us, I thought we were pretty poised on offense."

The Lady Jays have one final regular-season game, and it's a big one as they host Rochester on Saturday. The winner takes the Southern Division and will host the upcoming region tournament.

"In order for us to keep pushing, we have to do everything to perfection now," Hinkeldey said. "Coming Saturday, it's going to be a hard game. They are going to give us a run for our money. If we do the little things like we did tonight, we're going to come out on top."

St. Cloud Tech 9 16 26 42Lady Jays 24 44 64 90ST. CLOUD TECH (3FG-2FG-FT-TP) Jara 0-2-0-4, Lee 0-1-0-2, Cassens 1-1-1-6, Howard 0-1-0-2, Murray 2-3-7-19, Paggen 1-1-2-7, Harren 0-1-0-2. Toals 4-10-10-42.LADY JAYS (3FG-2FG-FT-TP) Mike 0-0-1-1, Haubrich 4-3-1-19, Stanley 0-3-0-6, Hinkeldey 0-10-6-26, Wabeke 2-0-0-6, Van Roekel 0-2-5-9, Ihnen 0-10-3-23. Totals 6-28-16-90.