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Concordia – Trailed by 3 heading into halftime, the Cloud County Community College women’s basketball team locked down visits to Garden City Community College, defeating the Bronxbusters 33-19 in the second half, as the Early Bryant Gymnasium won 55-44 at home. Saturday.
With their 12th straight regular season win over Garden City, Cloud County improved to 11-5 overall with this win, moving to 6-4 in Kansas Jayhawk Community College Conference play. Garden City lost two games in a row after returning from his holiday break, putting him 7-9 overall and 3-7 in the KJCCC.
The T-Birds were limited to just 2 points in the first four minutes of play as Garden City jumped out to an 8-2 lead and made three from sophomore Lily Smith to cut the GCCC lead in half at 8-5. I was. 5:57 left in the opening quarter. Smith’s triple sparked his CCCC run at 7-0 and the Cloud put his County up to his 9-8 before Garden City responded with his 8-0 run, sending the T-Birds to his home. 16-9 deficit. 29 left. Cloud County tied Maimouna Sissoko’s two free throws to end the run, scoring his four points in the first quarter and putting him trailing 16-13 in the second.
The points proved to be at a premium throughout the second quarter, with neither team on the board for more than the first two minutes of the quarter, with Garden City’s Dayshawna Carter finally making the drought with two free throws. I broke it. Free with Sarah Lawless’s triple in response to his throw, the Cloud gave up his two quicks to the GCCC after his County put together his 7-0 spurt and he took a 20-18 lead. Midway through the quarter he put things to a 22-20 Bronckbuster lead. In the final 5:20 of the first half, the T-Birds scored an Alizee Lewis free throw for a total of four points as Garden City scored a 3 from Carter to give them a 25-22 Bronckbuster lead at the half. I just couldn’t get it. .
Both teams again struggled to find points as they needed more than three minutes of game action to start the second half before seeing a point come in the form of a pair of free throws from Lewis. Cloud County in points at 25-24. Lewis scored on the ensuing CCCC possession layup, allowing the T-Birds to regain the lead as part of a 6-0 run, closing out with a Jesse Brammett layup.
Following Garden City’s timeout at the 5:25 mark of the 3rd quarter, the Bronckbusters managed to keep their lead back and forth after Cloud County made layups from both Lewis and Lewis. I was able to get 6 straight points. Sissoko. His second layup from Sissoko allowed the Clouds to score his county eight of his ten points in the final of the third quarter, giving them a 36-33 lead after 30 minutes of action. Having held on, the T-Birds began to extend their lead.
After Garden City scored to open the scoring in the fourth quarter, Cloud County responded with a layup of their own to hold the lead by three with just over eight minutes remaining. Trading Bronckbuster’s shot for a Lewis free throw would pull the GCCC within 1 on the free throw as the margin was one point at 41-40 with just over four minutes remaining. Following a 1:20 scoreless action, a Lewis layup kicked off his 10-0 Cloud County run and kept Garden City scoreless over the span of 4:28, before the T-Birds scored him 1-0. 51- out of reach for the game. 40 with 33 seconds remaining. Garden City managed to score four points in the final seconds via the free-throw line, but were forced to give up four free throws to CCCC as an 11-point margin would be the final margin of victory for Cloud County. became.
The T-Birds’ 55 total points were held below 60 for the second time this season after Cloud County shot 18 of 54 (33.3%) and 2 of 23 (8.7%) from the floor. beyond the arc. The T-Birds rebound Garden City 42-33, converting 17 Bronckbuster turnovers to 16 points, so they make up for a poorly performing 18-for-25 (85%) shooting from the Charity Stripes. GCCC doesn’t do so well off the field, hitting 27.5% of their shots (14 of 51) and going 1 of 3 to 7 (14.3%).
Three of Crowd County’s five starting pitchers hit double digits on the day, and Sissoko led the CCCC with a 12-point, 15-rebound performance. The T-Birds also scored his 12 points from Te Araroa Sopoaga, his team-high 15 points from Ruiz, and his remaining 16 points combined with his four other players. To do. Garden City would see 24 of their 44 total points scored by Carter.
what’s next?
Cloud County will head out to Arkansas City, Kansas on January 11th at 5:30pm for their second straight Wednesday road contest against Cowley. The Tigers trailed Butler by his 14 points in the first quarter before ultimately dropping the score at home to him 72-62, going 8-8 overall and 3-7 in KJCCC play. moved to