LAKEWOOD,
Colo. – Kelsey Doddridge and Mauriissa Ortega combined for 35 points and the
Western Nebraska Community College women’s basketball team put behind them the
events that unfolded this weekend in running past Colorado Christian University
junior varsity 71-53 on Tuesday night.
Doddridge
and Ortega each popped in three 3-pointers on their way to an outstanding
night. Doddredige finished with a game-high 18 points while Ortega finished
with 16 points.
“This
was a good win for us,” WNCC coach Dave Harnish said. “It was the last game of
the semester and what the team has gone through the last few days. It was a
good win to finish off the semester and go into break.”
Harnish
said the team played well, especially in the second half and had a 30-point lead
late to finish the first semester.
“The
first half we struggled a little bit. We were only up by 13 at halftime. In the
second half we came out and played really well,” he said. “We got the lead up
to a 30-point lead and then didn’t finish real strong the last four or five
minutes of the game.
The No.6
ranked Cougars, who were playing without a number of starters in the game,
flexed their depth in the contest. Ashley Stevens and Mikayla Brower finished
with nine points each behind Doddridge’s and Ortega’s double-figure night.
Brower netted also made a 3-pointer as the Cougars buried seven on the night.
Harnish
said this team has plenty of depth and scoring power.
“This
was a good night to play everybody. Everybody got to play that suited up and
they did a decent job,” he said. “This is a good way to finish off the
semester.”
The
Cougars will be off until Jan. 7 when they travel to Goodland, Kan., to take on
Northwest Kansas Technical College. After that, they will face Lamar Community
College on the road to open sub-region play.
Harnish said with the way they
are playing he really don’t want to take that four-week break of non-playing.
“This is a bad time for us to
have a break,” he said. “We are playing so well and you really don’t want to
stop; you want to keep playing while the team is playing well for pretty much
the whole semester. You are always scared with the 3-week break what they are
going to come back like. Hopefully we can pick up where we left off. It would
be nice to keep on going and not stop. With the win tonight, they will have a
positive attitude, work hard over break, and come back and start up where we
ended.”
WNCC 32
39 – 71
CCUJV 19
34 – 53
WNCC
Simone Evans 5, Kelsey Doddridge 18, Ashley Stevens 9,
Laurin Rivera 5, Mikayla Brower 9, Katie Kerkhoff 4, Michelle Brassard 5,
Maurissa Ortega 16.
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