| Show Lady Bruins Cant Can't Fly With Golden Eagles Eagles' Spencer Leatham Contributing Writer Two vo wins is all that separated separated sepa sepa- rated Lady Bruins from putting themselves into position to win the championship Unfortunately for those two games were against the top ranked junior college team in the country the College of Southern Idaho The Lady Bruins ultimately ultimately ultimately ulti ulti- gave it all they could against but came up short falling to CST 64 56 last Friday night stumbled right from the start It was almost five minutes into the game before the Lady I Bruins were even able to I put points on the board By then the Golden Eagles already had ten points a deficit to big for the Lady Bruins to overcome Our fin first t ten minutes of the game was the worst Aubrey Stay a freshman guard said We just needed needed needed need need- ed to come out better in the beginning This slow start left trailing 30 18 at the half The Lady Bruins came out stronger in the second h half and anH were able to tn make m a n L may r tk 4 7 l ro Jot 7 k CO J. J P x Wl 4 V W W- W as- as t v gar t ro l C tI x c rry r t r Ar iV 0 r Sophomore Rachel Rachell lillet Millet drives past a Southern Idaho defender in Friday nights night's game u. u couple of quick runs but never could catch up to The second half was excellent Coach said after the game Had we played with this much energy inthe in inthe inthe the first half especially the first ten minutes minutes minutes min min- utes I thought we might have had a different different different dif dif- ferent outcome Well We'll give it another try tomorrow Fortunately for they got off to a better start the following night Unfortunately they weren't able to change the results The Lady Bruins fell just sh short rt losing 76 69 was led by Tamarra Evans who finished with 12 points Arielle also helped out adding 8 points and Leal McVea handed out 8 assists Their efforts just weren't enough to overcome CST's Sidney Orndorff who led all scorers with 20 points The two wins all but clinches the championship for who is 13 1 1 in conference play and 25 1 25 1 1 overall The pair of wins also ensure that will remain as the top ranked team The two losses drop to 19 7 19 7 overall and 4 10 10 4 in conference play Despite the losses is still in second second second sec sec- ond and should be able to hold on to the spot with only four games remaining before they enter the region tournament By holding on to the second seed would receive a first round bye in the tournament r r The Lady Bruins travel to Couer D' D DAlene Alene to face North Idaho College on Feb 25 and 26 One win against North Idaho will clinch the second spot in the for The Lady Bruins then return home to close out the regular season against the College of Eastern Utah on Mar 4 and 5 Admission is free with your student ID card If you cant can't make it to the game be sure to catch this weekends weekend's key match up on Globe Radio on the web at http Sports Editor Eric Larson also contributed contributed contributed con con- to this article Ii r 1 I 1 1 |
