The Cougar men racked up 63 first half points in coasting to a 122-70 win, getting two players with 20-plus points for their 11th win of the season.
The Cougar women were just as impressive, scoring 52 second half points for a 90-42 win over Air Force Prep. WNCC had six players in double figures, led by Stormye Everett’s 15 points for their 12th win of the season.
Saturday is the final day of the Holiday Classic with action beginning at 1 p.m. with Garden City Community College taking on the Little Big Horn men, followed by the Little Big Horn women facing Air Force Prep at 3 p.m. The WNCC women take to the court at 5 p.m. against Colby Community College, while the Cougar men follow against the Tri-State All-stars.
The Cougar women’s game was actually close in the first half, as WNCC held a 38-25 halftime lead. In the second half, WNCC went on a 12-0 run over the first four minutes of the game, highlighted by six points from Tawny Drexler to double up the Huskies 50-25.
Air Force Prep didn’t score its first bucket until the 15:30 mark when Kellie Johnson hit a bucket. Air Force Prep, however, couldn’t make a dent in the lead as WNCC scored in individual spurts. Janae Willis scored five of eight points in a run to push the lead to 64-33.
Then, Drexler nailed three straight hoops inside the paint to push the lead to 72-37. Everett later added nine of the team’s final 18 points for the win.
Lorena Medeiros, who finished the game with 10 points including two three-pointers, said they performed much better today than they did in a 86-48 win against Little Big Horn.
“We played defense and our offense was doing well,” the sophomore from Brazil said. “We did a good job especially in the second half. Coach was mad at halftime because we weren’t rebounding offensively. We came out and rebounded and played good defense.”
The Cougars out-rebounded Air Force Prep 58-34, led by SeLina Ysac’s eight boards and Medeiros and Willis with six a piece. The other area that stood out for the Cougar women was shooting, where they blitzed the net for 46 percent compared to just 30 percent for the Huskies.
After Everett’s 15 points, Drexler finished with 14 points, Shaquilah Davis with 12, Willis and Caley Fisher with 11 points each, and Medeiros with 10.
Air Force Prep was paced by Johnson’s 21 points. Johnson, the player/coach for the Huskies, also pulled down 21 points.
While the women had an explosive second half, the Cougar men were just the opposite, scoring 63 first half points, which was five points shy of tying a school record for most points in the first half. The Cougars also came up eight points short of tying the school record for most points scored of 130 set by the 1963-64 team against Northwest Wyoming.
WNCC coach Brian Joyce said that while he was pleased with the way they executed in the game, they had too many turnovers.
“I was disappointed in the number of turnovers given the fact I don’t think they pressured us that much. We were just careless with the ball,” he said. “That might be wanting to go to the break more than anything. Hopefully we can correct that, but I thought our guys did a good job defensively.”
The Cougar men quickly took command of the game as Lloyd Hickinson hammered home two early dunks to give WNCC a 17-6 lead. Moments later, Bamforth hit the first of his game-high six 3-pointers. Bamforth, in fact, nailed back-to-back treys with just over six minutes to play to put the Cougars up 47-20.
Bamforth nailed another trey with about a minute to play to put the Cougars up 63-25, before the Rams went on a 6-0 to trail 63-32 at halftime.
In the second half, WNCC continued hammering away at the ball, utilizing their depth to score often. The Cougars went up 82-43 on back-to-back treys by Virgil Baker. The Cougars then hit the century mark with seven minutes to play on a Tarell Clark layup.
WNCC out-rebounded Little Big Horn 48-38. Both teams were hitting from beyond the arc at an alarming rate, combining on 21 3-pointers. The Rams finished with 11 treys, including seven from Frankie Hugs. Hugs finished the game with 32 points. Bamforth had six 3-pointers for WNCC for a team-high 24 points.
WNCC also received 20 points from Clark, while Daniel Smith netted 16 points, Baker collecting 14 points and Ali Djim finishing with 10 points.
Little Big Horn 38 25 – 63
Colby women 41 46 – 87
LITTLE BIG HORN COLLEGE
Diane Leider 2, Miranda Rowland 26, Charla Takes Enemy 11, Kristin Jefferson 2, Ashley Bird 18, Katherine Haugen 4.
COLBY COMMUNITY COLLEGE
Danisha Cole 16, Tasha Wagoner 8, Jasmine Gardner 22, Jamie Alexander 9, Kim Wessel 3, Nikki Welsh 6, Jaclyn Marshall 21, Ashley Ming 2.
Three-pointers: LBHC 4 (Rowland 3, Takes Enemy), Colby 13 (Marshall 5, Gardner 4, Wagoner 2, Alexander, Wessel).
Tri State All-stars 33 49 – 82
Garden City C.C. men 56 56 – 112
TRI-STATE ALLSTARS
Deano Korecky 2, Wesley Specht 25, Mirza Pazic 8, Nic Clanco 7, Lane Brooks 14, Reggie Jackson 22, Blair Bivens 4.
GARDEN CITY C.C.
DeRon Anderson 13, Jace McNabb 2, Bobby Wesley 5, Thomas Manzano 2, AJ Stephens2, Reggie Davis 4, Fred Williams 13, Richard Thomas 8, Trevor Ottley 23, Kevin Kirkland 7, Travis Burley 21, Martell Jackson 12.
Three-pointers: Tri-state 10 (Specht 6, Brooks 2, Jackson, Clanco), GCCC 4 (Williams 3, Thomas 1).
Air Force Prep 25 17 – 42
WNCC women (12-3) 38 52 – 90
AIR FORCE PREP
Danielle Sorrera 2, Desiree Wilson 4, Austyn Wilson 4, Shandin West 2, Rhianna Farm 9, Kellie Johnson 21.
WESTERN NEBRASKA
Lorena Medeiros 10, Michelle Lighthall 2, SeLina Ysac 8, Shaquilah Davis 12, Stormye Everett 15, Janae Willis 11, Tawny Drexler 14, Caley Fisher 11, Juliana Bassetto 7.
Little Big Horn 32 38 – 70
WNCC men (11-4) 63 59 – 122
LITTLE BIG HORN
Zach Goes Ahead 1, Tim Pease 16, Shane Rides the Bull 2, Andy Round Face 11, Jordan Knows Gun 2, Lewis Rides Horse 4, Lloyd Hogan 2, Frankie Hugs 32.
WESTERN NEBRASKA
Lloyd Hickinson 8, Tarell Clard 20, Sal Torres 3, Daniel Smith 16, Scott Bamforth 24, Francisco Cruz 9, Virgil Baker 14, Larry Brown 9, John Bright 9, Ali Djim 10.
Three-pointers: WNCC 10 (Bamforth 10, Baker 2, Cruz 2), LBHC 11 (F. Hugs 7, Pease 4).
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