Hope for wholesome new 12 months: Rested Cowgirls return – American Press
Hope for wholesome new 12 months: Rested Cowgirls return
Printed 8:00 am Saturday, December 31, 2022
- Junior ahead Paris Mullins, proper, leads the Cowgirls in scoring with 11.1 factors per recreation. (Rick Hickman / American Press)
Hoping day without work would assist heal accidents, the Cowgirls open convention play towards a well-recognized foe.
The McNeese State ladies journey to Beaumont, Texas, immediately to start convention play towards Lamar.
The Cowgirls are coming off a tough pre-conference slate that noticed them go 3-8. However improved play of late provides second-year head coach Lynn Kennedy hope of a greater run within the Southland Convention.
“I like the place we’re at and the way we have now performed the final couple weeks,” Kennedy stated.
The Cowgirls, who’ve been off since Dec. 19, used that point to get wholesome, Kennedy stated.
He stated level guard Cristina Gil is predicted to play immediately after lacking all however 6 minutes of the season with a leg harm. With out Gil the Cowgirls are averaging nearly 21 turnovers a recreation, worst within the league.
Lamar is the lone Southland crew with a successful document at 6-5.
“They’re an excellent basketball crew, particularly at dwelling,” Kennedy stated of the Cardinals, who’re 4-1 on their very own court docket. “The primary recreation on the street, to have the ability to steal that towards a high opponent, that might say rather a lot about the place we’re headed.”
McNeese, which has misplaced its final two video games, is winless in six street video games.
Lamar leads the convention in 3-point taking pictures at 36.2 p.c (63-174). Junior guard Sabria Dean and senior Malay McQueen lead the long-range assault.
Dean is tied for essentially the most 3s within the league with 22 and is making 40.7 p.c of these photographs.
McNeese can counter with sophomore Kaili Chamberlin, who has the highest 3-point taking pictures share at 44.1 (15-34).
“They’re an excellent taking pictures crew,” Kennedy stated of Lamar. “We must get out on them and problem their photographs.”
McNeese does have a bonus on the boards. The Cowgirls lead the league in rebounding at simply over 41 a contest.
Nevertheless, Lamar permits the least quantity of rebounds by an opponent, maybe a product of their stable taking pictures.
“Their inside presence is excellent,” Aiken stated. “We’re going to need to be excellent and never allow them to energy put up on us and taking pictures free throws all day.”
In final 12 months’s 88-76 victory, Lamar shot 31 free throws, 15 by Akasha Davis who had a game-high 25 factors.
Desirae Hansen and Le’Shenae Stubblefield every had 15 for the Cowgirls.
