Lady Cowboys Season Comes To An End

The North Gem Lady Cowboys in their final week of the season got to experience a range of emotions.  As reported last week the Lady Cowboys needed to win a play-in game just to get into the district tournament.  They accomplished that feat by narrowly topping Watersprings Christian Academy.  The Cowboys reward for winning that game was a match up with the number one seeded Rockland Bulldogs.  The Bulldogs have remained undefeated against conference foes and the Lady Cowboys did not bring that streak to an end.  We don’t have much information about this game other than the final score.  Based on that one piece of information it is not a game that many from North Gem will want to dwell on.  The final in that game was 51-18 in favor of the Bulldogs.  With the loss the Cowboys were sent to the consolation side of the bracket to face the Sho-Ban Chiefs.

In the two previous games the Lady Cowboys experienced the thrill of a close win and the devastation of a blowout loss.  In the loser out game against Sho-Ban, North Gem would experience even more emotions as the game took the Cowboy fans on a rollercoaster ride.  The Lady Cowboys had to travel to Sho-Ban for the game due to the Chiefs being the higher seeded team.  As the underdogs the Lady Cowboys entered the game with a bit of a chip on their shoulder and took the game to the Chiefs in the first quarter.  The Cowboys played aggressive and attacked the Chiefs defense, outscoring Sho-Ban seven to two in the first period.  In the second period the Lady Cowboys spread the ball around.  Five separate girls scored for North Gem and their lead increased to ten at the halftime break.  In the second half the script was quickly flipped.  The Lady Chiefs really increased their pressure on the ball and the physicality of the game increased.  By the end of the third quarter Sho-Ban had erased the deficit and the period ended with the team all tied up.  Just over one minute into the fourth quarter the Lady Cowboys found themselves trailing for the first time in the game.  Unfortunately North Gem would never regain the lead.  The Cowboys were only able to score a pair of foul shots in the fourth quarter and ended up losing the game by eleven points.  With the loss the Lady Cowboys season came to an end.  North Gem will lose three players to graduation but will return a solid core of girls that have been in the program and should represent the Cowboys well again next season.

Cowboys 7 10 6 2 25

Chiefs 2 5 16 13 36

S.Daniels 2, K.Whiting 4, M.O’Brien 4, S.Thompson 5, D.Frandsen 8, M.Barnes 2