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At
the DSU Fieldhouse, the Dakota State Lady
T's continued to struggle with and lose to
fellow DAC-10 foes. Jamestown College
and the University of Mary handed out
consecutive-nights' defeats of 55-51 and
78-66 to Dakota State on Friday and
Saturday. In both cases, Dakota State
couldn't muster enough offense to get
victories.
"We had another game that we led the
majority of the time, but couldn't
finish," said DSU head coach Jeff
Dittman of the Lady T's loss Friday to
Jamestown, in which DSU had an eight-point,
25-17, halftime lead only to see it
evaporate."
"In four of our last five games, we
have led for more than 30 minutes of the
game, but can't find a way to close it
out," said Dittman. "I have
been very pleased with our defensive efforts
in games." |
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Dakota
State's Mandy Kruger (20) and the University
of mary's Kari Wilcox (45) and Cari Donnolly
all have shots at claiming the basketball on
this play during the Lady T's 78-66 loss to
Mary here Saturday.
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As for Saturday's defeat to Mary, Dittman said,
"We had some match-up problems that Mary was
very good at exploiting. They have a very tall,
strong team and we weren't able to contain them
inside. That's why they wound up shooting 49 percent
from the field against us. ... They also hit 88
percent from the free-throw line to our 52
percent."
The Lady T's travel to
North Dakota to take on Dickinson and Minot State
universities this coming weekend.
Jamestown 55, DSU
51
"Our downfall (against Jamestown) was at the
free-throw line where we missed 16 shots", said
Coach Dittman. Jennie Sonne and Hali McClelland were
the only double-figures scorers for the Lady T's,
garnering 15- and 14-point outings. Erin
Nielsen also contributed seven points and Trisha
Grablander five as the Lady T's shot just 18-of-58
from the field and 15-31 at the charity stripe.
DSU outrebounded Jamestown
41-39 with Sonne claiming eight caroms.
Jamestown, shooting 15-45,
including five 3's, got 20 game-high points from
Sarah Mclean and 11 more by Jessica Peterson.
U. of Mary 78, DSU
66
Five Lady T's had double-digit scoring nights with
Nielsen, Sonne and Mandy Kruger each scoring 13
points, Jessica Honermann 11 and McClelland 10 as
the Lady T's went 24-60 from the field, but were
just 15-29 at the free-throw line.
Dakota State, which had a
39-31 rebound edge over Mary, got eight rebounds by
Sonne.
Mary had a 38-35 halftime
edge over DSU.
Mary, got 25 tilt-tops
tallies by Jessica Zundel. The Lady Marauders also
got 21 points from Jessica Slindo and 16 from Afton
Miller. Zundel also had nine rebounds. |
