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Women knock off Linn-Benton CC, look to beat Panthers
The Advocate
The Lady Saints held the Linn-Benton Road Runners at bay throughout the game Saturday to post a convincing 55-38 win over the seventh-ranked team in the Southern Region.
MHCC improved its record to 4-3 in conference and is in third place, one game ahead of SWOCC.
The women produced a balanced attack, with practically the entire team attempting at least four field goals. Sophomore guards Brooklyn Bahme, Shawnelle Cambell and sophomore center Katie Smith all had more than 10 shots apiece.
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Sophomore forward Brittany Burroughs scored nine points while Bahme scored 10 points and sophomore Brittney Yates also chipped in with nine points.
The girls were coming off a hard 71-59 loss to Lane Community College on Jan. 27 in which they gave the Southern Region leaders reason to worry, according to Women’s Head Coach Larry Davis.
Even with the win over Linn-Benton, the players and Davis said they were disappointed in their overall play. “We were expecting to win this game, but we don’t feel like we gave it our all,” said Bahme. “We could have beat them by a lot more, but because we weren’t expecting much opposition, we more or less let our guard down a little.”
Bahme was adamant, saying the mistake would not happen a second time.
“Our next game is kind of a statement game and we hope to dominate,” she said. “Our goal is to consistently step up our level of play every game, find errors and places of improvement and work on them. We want to play to the best of our ability.”
Asked if there were any practice strategies the team uses for the more important games, Bahme said, “Defensively, we try and shut down their key players of course, but at the same time we don’t want to get too far away from our usual defensive tactics.”
Davis said, “Preparation-wise, there’s no difference. The day before a game we do a scatter report, watch game film, and obviously on-court practice. It doesn’t matter if it’s the team on the bottom or the team on the top, we still play the same way.”
The team will face the Portland Community College Panthers Saturday Saturday at 4 p.m. at PCC. The Panthers are 0-7 in the Southern Region and 2-16 overall this season. The Saints then take on Clackamas Community College Feb. 10 at 5:30 p.m. in Oregon City.
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