Lady Wolves Cruise Past Stars

WESSON – The Co-Lin Women's Basketball team had their home opener hosting South Arkansas Community College on Monday, November 7. The Lady Wolves led wire-to-wire in a dominant 71-52 win.

"Our field goal percentage for the game was good," said Co-Lin head coach Gwyn Young. "There is still some room for improvement though as I feel like we need to be more selective on our shots taken and defensively we need to have better contain on drives to the basket than we showed during this game."

The Lady Wolves used the opening minutes of the first quarter to establish an early lead as they went on a 10-4 run to hold that margin with just over six minutes of play remaining. The Lady Wolves then closed out the quarter with an 11-9 scoring run to push their lead to 21-13.

The second quarter saw the Lady Wolves continue to grow their lead as an 11-2 scoring run pushed the lead to 32-15 with just under five minutes remaining in the first half. The Stars closed out the half outscoring the Lady Wolves 8-6, but the Lady Wolves lead stood at 38-23 as the teams entered the locker rooms at halftime.

The Lady Wolves opened the second half with a 12-4 scoring run to start the third quarter and extended their lead to 50-27 with just over five minutes of play left. The Stars once again closed out a quarter outscoring the Lady Wolves this time, 12-7, but once again the Lady Wolves maintained a double-digit lead at 57-39 when the third quarter ended.

The fourth quarter saw the Lady Wolves finish the game by outscoring the Lady Wolves, 14-13, securing the 71-52 win.

The Lady Wolves were led offensively by sophomore guards Zykeria Anderson (Edwards) and Tandria Minor (Brandon) as Anderson was tied for the game-high in points with 24 while Minor had 17 points, which was the second-highest amount amongst all scorers. Anderson added two rebounds, three assists, and a team-leading and game high four steals while Minor added five rebounds, three steals, and a team-leading six assists to their nights.

"Zykeria and Tandria both had good games for our team tonight," added Young. "One thing we really need to work on is our free throw shooting as a team because 50 percent from the spot is not good enough."

Freshman forward Ceara Myers (Baton Rouge, LA) had seven points, sophomore forward Kiersten Ball (Louisville) had six points, freshman guard A'Shante Fleming (Canton) had five points, sophomore guard Ayanna McNairy (Brookhaven) added four points, sophomore guard Leilani Lewis (Baton Rouge, LA) had three points, while freshman guard Kayla Howard (Shaw) and freshman forward Kyla Farmer (Conehatta) had two points each and freshman guard Kaileigh Bilbo (Gulfport) had one point to round out the scoring. Ball led the team in rebounds with eight along with three steals while Lewis added three steals and five rebounds to her night.

As a team the Lady Wolves made 28 of 62 shots for a field goal percentage of 45.2 including going 6-for-21 from three for 28.6 percent. The Lady Wolves were 9-of-18 from the free throw line.

Co-Lin improves to 2-0 on the season and will return to action on the road on Thursday, November 10 to face off against the Stars. Tip-off is scheduled for 5:30 p.m., in El Dorado, Arkansas.