Lady Indians down Lamar 67-46 at home

The McCook Community College women started the second half of the Region IX basketball schedule with a 67-46 win over Lamar Tuesday in the Peter and Dolores Graff Events Center.

“I thought we did a good job of executing the game plan all the way through – three out of four quarters,” said MCC Coach Brandon Pritchett.

A 3-pointer from Gemma Gruettner Bacoul (Berlin, Germany) with time expiring in the first quarter put MCC up 17-10.

“I thought we finished the first quarter strong with a seven-point lead going into the second quarter and then opened things up from there,” said Pritchett.

MCC outscored Lamar 15-8 in the second quarter to lead at intermission 32-18.

Lamar had nine first-half offensive rebounds and held a 22-21 edge on the glass after 20 minutes. MCC held the Lopes to four in the second half.

“We cleaned that up for the most part in the second half and everybody came in and helped us succeed tonight,” said Pritchett.

The Lady Indians stretched the lead to 52-29 after three quarters and went up by 24 points with 6:17 to play before Lamar made up some ground on the scoreboard and outscored MCC 17-15 in the final quarter.

“Defensively I thought we just played really, really well,” said Pritchett.

Lamar shot 26.8 percent from the field, made two of 18 shots from the 3-point line, and made 14 of 19 free throws (73.7 percent)

 MCC shot 40.7 percent from the field, went five of 15 from distance (33.3 percent) and made 18 of 23 shots from the free-throw line (78.3 percent). The Lady Indians won the rebound battle 39-37.

 Bacoul led all scorers with 23 points. Rebecca Dunn (sophomore, Colorado Springs, Colo.) had a double-double with 12 points and 11 rebounds.

Sophomore Suzan Sisman (Aarhus, Denmark) had nine points going two-for-six from the 3-point line. Freshman Carlota Aliaga Alonso (Valencia, Spain) scored seven points and grabbed five boards.

“Overall we got to the free-throw line and we did everything we wanted to tonight and I was really proud of the execution of the game plan,” said Pritchett.

Lamar falls to 1-4 in the south division of the Region IX standings, and 5-17 overall.

MCC improves to 3-3 in the south standings with four Region IX games left and goes to 14-10 on the season.

The Lady Indians are on the road until a home game Feb. 16 against Western Nebraska.

On Saturday MCC travels to Sterling, Colo. to take on the division-leading Northeastern Junior College. On Tuesday (Feb. 13) MCC goes to North Platte for a Nebraska conference game.

 “Now we go to NJC, which is really tough but this is a good step for us and we have to keep building on it this week in practice,” said Pritchett.

The Plainswomen improved to 5-1 in the standings and 23-3 overall with a 90-71 over second-place Western Nebraska Tuesday.

 Up-to-date information about MCC basketball including schedules, statistics, rosters and photos can be found on the MCC Athletics website, www.mccindians.com.

Women’s Region IX South Standings
                          W-L    PCT   Overall
Northeastern    5-1   .833    23-3
Otero JC           5-2    .714     9-16
Western Neb.   4-2  .667    20-5
McCook           3-3  .500   14-10
Lamar CC         1-4    .200     5-17

Trinidad State  0-6    .000     0-22