Erasing a fifteen point second half deficit to lead with five minutes to play, the Barton Community College women’s basketball team faltered down the stretch and lost a 62-51 decision to Garden City Wednesday night at the Barton Gym. The Lady Cougars grabbed a two point lead with five minutes to play but gave up critical defensive rebounds on missed free throws to help send Garden City to the conference victory. Barton drops to 11-6 on the season and 1-2 in conference play while Garden City improves to 10-7 overall and 2-1 in conference play. Barton will travel to El Dorado this Wednesday for a 5:30 p.m. conference game against Butler. The Grizzlies are 0-2 in conference and 11-5 overall after dropping a 63-47 decision Wednesday night against No. 3 Hutchinson.
Highlights
After scoring the game’s first two points, the Lady Cougars went on a four minute tough stretch of only scoring two additional points as Garden City used a nine point run to build a 13-4 advantage.
Back-to-back buckets from Netanya Jackson cut the deficit to five only to have Garden City stroke three straight three-pointers, two coming from Jasmine Moore, to build a 22-8 lead at the midway point of the first half.
After a Taschell Phillips bucket, the games next nine points were scored from long distance as Garden City’s Tamara Jones, Barton’s Erin Copeland, and Garden City’s Breanna Gottschalk exchanged three-pointers resulting in Garden building its largest lead of fifteen points with 6:27 remaining.
The Cougars cut the lead to twelve twice before halftime behind another Copeland three-pointer and the inside play of Jackson, but Garden would take a thirteen point advantage to the half at 35-22. For the half, Garden City had four players that connect on 7-of-10 from behind the arc including three from Moore.
After Garden City extended their lead back to fifteen to start the half, Barton scored the next nine points before a Jones bucket stopped the bleeding and maintained Garden’s lead at 39-31 with 15:13 remaining.
After two free throws by Jones stretched the Garden lead back to nine with 10:30 remaining, Barton dominated the next five minutes scoring the games next ten points to lead 49-48 with 4:48 remaining. It was Barton’s first lead since the game’s opening twenty seconds and was quickly relinquished as Jones connected for two of her game high 29 points.
Devan Boeger regained the Barton lead as she drained the second of her second half three-pointers to give Barton it’s last lead of the game at the 5:03 mark. The Lady Cougars would then give up consecutive defensive rebounds on missed fouls shots resulting in five points for the Busters. Those points proved pivotal in the game’s outcome as Garden utilized the opportunities to build a five point advantage in less than a minute of action.
Raven Anderson sunk two free throws to draw Barton back to 51-54 with 3:25 remaining to give Barton its last points of the game. The Lady Cougars would go 0-for-5 from the field while Garden scored the game’s last eight points to win the contest 62-51.
Scoring
Netanya Jackson led the Lady Cougars in scoring and rebounding as she tied her season high with 17 points to go along with 6 rebounds. Erin Copeland’s 10 points was the only other player in double figures for the Lady Cougars as their top two scorers, Dionne Harris and Shea Shoemaker, were held to 1-of-10 shooting and finished with five points combined.
Garden City just had one player in double-digit scoring and rebounding. Tamara Jones, the 6’0” freshman from Prosser, Washington, and two-time KJCCC player of the week had a big night recording a double-double by scoring 29 points and grabbing 14 rebounds.
Released: January 12, 2012
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