And she stuffed herself completely Friday night.

The Webster City junior guard broke her own single-game (5-player) school record with 40 points in the Lynx 71-39 rout of North Central Conference rival Humboldt. McKinney buried 15 of 22 shots, including 5 of 9 3-pointers, and went 5 of 6 at the free throw line before she exited the floor for good early in the fourth quarter.

“I was pretty on,” McKinney said, making it quite possibly the understatement of the season considering she outscored Humboldt by herself. “It just felt like it came very easy and my teammates definitely helped me out a lot.”

McKinney first broke the single-game scoring record with 37 points at Manson-Northwest Webster last season and she matched it behind 11 3-pointers at Pocahontas Area earlier this season.

Webster City’s Leah Kasch eyes the hoop on a shot from the lane against Humboldt Friday night. The Lynx throttled the Wildcats, 71-39, to improve to 2-5 in the North Central Conference. DFJ photo/Tracy Runneberg

The top three individual scoring performances in program history. All of them on the road.

Humboldt (3-10, 0-7 NCC) opted to stay away from double-teaming McKinney, which has become the standard defensive approach by most of the Lynx opponents this season. She made the Wildcats pay by erupting for 12 first-quarter points, and she pushed her total to 19 by the half. McKinney poured in 14 more points in the third and seven in less than two minutes of court time in the fourth.

“Taylor did a great job of creating for herself and the girls did a great job of getting the ball to her,” WCHS head coach Nicole Muhlenbruch said, noting her team distributed a season-high 16 assists, 11 of them from Grace Hoversten (six) and Zoey Woodle (five).

The monstrous effort moved McKinney to within 90 points of the WCHS all-time scoring record. She’s averaging 17.6 points per game this season and is on pace to break Kayleigh Epps’ record of 895 career points later this month.

“I’m happy to be where I’m at right now,” McKinney, who also had five steals and four rebounds against Humboldt, said. “It’s cool to see where I’m at as a junior.”

DFJ photo/Tracy Runneberg

Adalie Schwandt scored a career-high 14 points to go along with seven rebounds in the Lynx win. She notched nine of her points in the first half to help WCHS (4-7, 2-5 NCC) build a 38-19 lead at the break.

“It was a good night from Adalie and we’ve known she had this in her,” Muhlenbruch said. “She looked more relaxed and played with confidence.”

McKinney’s early outburst pushed WCHS out to a 19-2 lead less than seven minutes into the game and the rout was on.

Jenna Miller added four points, while Leah Kasch and Kelly Stoakes had three each.

Jori Hajek paced Humboldt with nine points.

Webster City 71, Humboldt 39

Friday at Humboldt

Webster City (4-7, 2-5 NCC) — Tatum Goings 0 1-2 1, Taylor McKinney 15 5-6 40, Atlanta Hopp 0 0-0 0, Zoey Woodle 0 1-2 1, Jenna Miller 2 0-0 4, Leah Kasch 0 3-4 3, Kelly Stoakes 1 0-0 3, Morgan Gallentine 1 0-0 2, Kaylyn Anderson 0 1-2 1, Grace Hoversten 1 0-0 2, Allie Carr 0 0-0 0, Adalie Schwandt 6 2-6 14. Totals: 26 13-22 71.

Humboldt (3-10, 0-7 NCC) — Deni McDaniel 0 0-0 0, Jori Hajek 3 2-2 9, Amber Westling 0 0-0 0, Bae Arnold 1 0-0 2, Ashlyn Clark 0 0-0 0, Mady Lange 2 2-4 6, Emily Knight 0 0-0 0, Emily Zaugg 0 0-0 0, Frances Carlson 0 0-0 0, Jayda Hoefer 1 0-0 3, Annie Boyd 1 0-0 2, Lily Groat 3 1-3 7, Kendall Clark 2 1-1 5, Ellie Jacobson 0 0-0 0, Quinn Mooney 2 1-2 5. Totals: 15 7-12 39.

Webster City 22 16 19 14 — 71

Humboldt 6 13 11 9 — 39

3-point field goals — WC 6 (McKinney 5, Stoakes); HUM 2 (Hajek, Hoefer). Rebounds — WC 26 (Schwandt 7, Hoversten 4, McKinney 4). Steals — WC 13 (McKinney 5, Woodle 3). Assists — WC 16 (Hoversten 6, Woodle 5). Turnovers — WC 14, HUM 20.