Show Lady Ladd Bruins Start Off with a Win By Eric Bresse Staff Writer new women's basketball coach Betsy had a successful successful successful suc suc- debut as her team defeated the Snow College Badgers 66 48 Friday night at the LAC The Lady Bruins' Bruins stifling pressure pressure pressure pres pres- sure defense spearheaded a 3 12 run to start the game Freshman center Laurie Crocker led the surge with seven points The Badgers had cut the Bruin lead to 26 15 when co-captain co Karie Kane Allen scored on a breakaway lay- lay up Then moments later Stephanie Johnston nailed a three Johnston finally hit one of two throws free-throws to make it a 31 15 Bruin lead at halftime Johnston finished finished finished fin fin- the first half with nine points The Bruins were up by 16 points but Snow College was lucky it wasn't more The Badgers shot 13 percent on a woeful for 3 shoot shoot- ing To make matters worse the Bruins came down with 10 offensive offensive offensive offen offen- sive rebounds Even with the 16 point lead Coach never felt com com- They Snow College were always hanging around We could never pull away Snow played an aggressive defense in the first half and came out even more physical in the sec sec- ond But thanks to Crockers Crocker's eight points early in the half the Bruins were able to withstand the Badgers first run of the second half halL With the score 43 25 and the Bruins looking to put the game away Snow made their second run of the half by scoring six straight points The Bruins went on an 6 11 spurt led by freshman forward Heidi who scored seven points in the run After boosting the lead up to 17 Snow never came closer than 15 Co-captain Co Heather Hoffmann completed completed completed com com- the scoring with a baseline roll finger-roll for her only two points of the game The freshman had a tremendous impact on the game Crocker finished finished finished fin fin- with 19 points and an impressive impressive impressive sive 19 rebounds scored 14 points on for five-for-eight shooting a real strong girl She goes to the basket well on offense said Coach thought the team played well for the first game but she was quick to credit Snows Snow's physical defense Good nosed hard-nosed defense makes you be fundamental If youre you're not fundamental then youre you're not going to be very successfuL success success- ful The best overall game though belonged to Johnston The sophomore sophomore sophomore more guard finished with nine ninepoints ninepoints ninepoints points four rebounds three assists three steals and several hustle plays that sparked the team on both ends of the court She plays with a lot of hustle and the team feeds off of her said Saturday night the Lady Bruins took on the Utah Stars All-Stars to finish up the Tournament The All- All Stars are a team made up of former University of Utah players who are older and more experienced than the Bruins considered them to be a tough match on After that game the team hit the road for a game against Western Wyoming last night The Bruins road trip takes them to Casper Wyoming for a tournament tournament tournament ment November 23 21 and to our rivals to the south for a tournament tournament tournament tour tour- November 30 29 to finish the pre When the season opens on December 5 the Bruins will play their first three games on the road against Ricks Northern Idaho on December 7 and on December 14 They will also play in inthe inthe inthe the Fullerton Tournament December 27 Finally they will return home for a game against Western Wyoming on January 6 Editors Editor's Note- Note Check Sports Stuff for the result of Saturdays Saturday's s game Y I t h 9 e r b t jj S s r ir N i d 7 if SiV i 1 v y f W V j M I Y i |