Lady Cowboys Season Struggles Continue

Last week the Lady Cowboys faced a pair of conference opponents in the Challis Vikings and Mackay Miners.  In the large ten team conference Challis and Mackay are comfortably sitting in the top half of teams while the Cowboys are fighting to stay out of last place.  Last week’s games did not favor North Gem.

In Thursday’s game against Challis the Lady Cowboys put forth their lowest scoring output of the season.  The Lady Vikings are currently in second place in the conference and proved to be too much for the Lady Cowboys.  North Gem finished the game averaging just two points a quarter.  The Cowboys only managed two made foul shots out of ten attempts on the night as well.  In the end this game is one of those that you might be best off just forgetting about and moving on to the next one.

Moving on is just what the Cowboys had to do last Saturday.  Following the big loss to Challis, North Gem now had to face an equally tough Mackay team.  The Miners came right out in a press and caused the Cowboys to turn the ball over several times.  Before they knew it the Cowboys found themselves in the same position as their previous game.  After just one quarter of play they already trailed by double digits while only scoring one basket themselves.  Though they would be able to score a little more in this game the Lady Cowboys still struggled to keep pace and once again fell by a large margin.  North Gem also continued to struggle from the charity stripe going just one for ten in this one.  The Lady Cowboys have plenty of room for improvement but are running out of time.  With just six games left in the regular season North Gem desperately needs to pick up some wins in the closing weeks before district tournament play.

Cowboys 2 2 2 2 8

Vikings 13 14 14 0 41

S. Daniels 2, S. Thompson 4,
D. Frandsen 2

Cowboys 2 3 6 3 14

Miners 13 15 10 10 48

S. Daniels 3, K. Whiting 2,
S. Thompson 5, D. Frandsen 2,
M. Barnes 2