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Shooting goes south
By Drew Herron
Published:
Monday, February 3, 2003
Media Credit: scott theisen
Sophomore guard Katie Huschle drives to the hoop late in the first half as the Huskies tried to catch USD before halftime. Huschle scored eight points for SCSU Saturday night.
When it rains, it pours.
The Husky women's basketball team knows this expression all too well. And sometimes, no matter how hard you try, things just don't work out. The Huskies threw the shots up, but precious few dropped.
The team entered this last weekend with high hopes. If only they could grab a couple wins, things would be very different. After two disappointing home losses, the Huskies are left with more questions than answers.
The weekend started out promisingly enough. SCSU got what they expected in the first half of Friday night's game against Nebraska-Omaha.
After trailing 21-13, SCSU went on a 12-3 run to take a 25-24 lead, battling back and forth and trailing 39-37 at the half. Who would have thought the bottom was about to drop?
After a solid shooting performance in the first half in which the team made 15 of 30, SCSU came out in the second and shot a dreary 18 percent, making only five field goals. Things could have been much worse had the team not converted 24 of 27 free throw attempts in the second half.
Making the situation more difficult for the Huskies was the remarkably strong shooting performance turned in by the opposition. UNO shot 62.5 percent on their way to 56 second half points.
Leading the way for the Mavericks was senior guard Sara Peterson. Peterson went 12 for 19 from the field, including 7 for 11 from three-point range on her way to scoring a game-high 35 points in the 95-71 Maverick victory.
Leading SCSU in scoring was sophomore guard Molly Jensen, who posted a career-high 18 points. Two other Huskies finished with double- digit scoring as senior post Jonelle Streed collected 14 and freshman guard Sascha Hansen scored ten.
The shooting troubles St. Cloud had in the second half of Friday night's game seemed to follow them into Saturday night's 72-47 loss to South Dakota.
The team was ice cold once again, converting only nine of their 29 first half field goal attempts, and another nine in the second half, shooting just 32.7 percent for the game.
Trailing 36-25 at halftime, the Huskies failed to improve their play in the second half, scoring just 22, and finished with a lackluster 47 points.
SCSU outrebounded the taller USD team 40-33, but the poor shooting performance seemed to make all the difference as the Coyotes cruised to an easy victory led by solid performances from three key players.
All-NCC forward Mandy Koupal, who was double-teamed for the majority of the game, still finished with 16 points and 17 boards. But, it was an unexpected source leading the way for the Coyotes. Freshman guard Renae Luecke came off the bench to lead all scorers with 19, including converting five of seven three-point attempts.
Senior forward Heather Nelson also turned in a solid effort, going six of 10 from the field, finishing with 14 points.
USD didn't shoot terribly well from the field, going 24 of 54 overall, but did convert on 11 of 22 three-pointers, going 7 of 12 in the second half, while SCSU made just one attempt.
Leading the Huskies in scoring against USD was junior post Kris DeGroot with 10 points. Junior guard Andrea Shogren and sophomore guard Katie Huschle each added eight points.
