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Prior to Dakota
State University's entry in the Doane College Invitational at
Crete, Neb., Jeff Dittman, the Lady Trojans' head coach, said the
weekend tournament would be a yardstick for his women's basketball
team.
The Lady T's were facing a pair of high-ranking teams:
Hastings College, ranked #2 in last week's NAIA poll, and
host-team Doane College, an honorable-mention unit.
Hastings and Doane gave DSU (2-2)
its first losing lessons of the season: respective 79-58
and 82-68 defeats.
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DSU'S
Jenne Sonne (54) was the Lady T's top scorer in their two
games in the Doane Classic Friday and Saturday in Crete,
Neb. |
Hastings 79, Lady T's 58
Jennie Sonne was the only Lady Trojan to break into double-figures
scoring, snapping in 12 points against Hastings' defense.
Mandy Kruger, Trisha Grablander and Hali McClelland were close
behind with a trio of nine-point displays.
DSU trailed Hastings 44-28 at halftime.
Erin Nielsen's game-opening bucket for
DSU gave the Lady T's their only lead of the contest. A
couple of free throws by Molly Hathaway with 7:35 left in the
contest got DSU within eight points, 58-50, of Hastings, which
proceeded to outscore the Lady T's 21-8 the rest of the way.
For the game, DSU was 20-of-49 in field
goals, including a 5-13 showing from beyond the three-point
arc. Hastings, though, shot about 50 percent, 32-61, from
the field, sparked by Elizabeth Herbe's 20 counters, along with
Mary Stuehm and Carrie Hofstetter who each had 16.
Hastings also had a decided 38-27 rebound
edge over the Lady T's with Teresa Harrenstein nabbing seven for
the winners, while Sonne had seven for DSU.
Doane 82, Lady T's
68
In Saturday's action against Doane, Sonne again came through to
lead the Lady T's offense, notching a 19-point display. Erin
Nielsen added 11 counters and Amy Balk contributed nine points for
the Lady T's.
Doane constructed a 46-30 halftime
cushion.
Two early-game layups by Sonne had
DSU ahead 4-2 with 18:39 left in the first half, but Doane melted
that lead, went ahead 7-4 at the 17:20 mark and never looked back
at the Lady T's.
Doane got double-figures scoring from
Erin Gillespie, Amanda Creighton and Terri Wilbeck, who had
respective 14-, 11- and 10-point performances. Doane had a
25-23 field goal edge over the Lady T's, who were also outgunned
31-21 in freethrow successes.
The victors, who got seven rebounds from
Wilbeck and six more by Gillespie, also had an ever-so-slight
45-44 rebound edge over DSU, which got eight rebounds apiece from
Jessica Honermann and Sonne.
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