Dakota
State University's basketball-playing Trojans salvaged a
1-1 Black Hills tour with a 77-69 win over
19th-ranked South Dakota Tech
Saturday in Rapid City.
It was the Lady Hardrockers' first loss in
conference play this season.
Tech's mark dropped to 4-1, while the Lady T's are now
4-2 and third in the conference.
Tech is a game behind the University of Mary,
which is 5-0.
"We got behind by 19 points, 23-4, but had a tremendous
run that allowed us to come back and take a 3-point
(33-30) lead at halftime," said Lady T's Coach Jeff
Dittman. "This was a huge win for us that kept us in the
hunt in the DAC-10 conference. Had we gone 0-2 on this
road trip, we may have taken ourselves out of any chance
in the league's race."
The
Lady T's (10-4 overall) suffered a heart-wrenching 66-63
loss to Black Hills State Friday in Spearfish.
DSU 77, Tech 69
On Saturday, DSU got double-figure scoring from four
Lady T's, led by Angie Carrr's 19-point performance,
which included four 3-pointers in DSU's first-half
rally. Sara Nelson and Renae Bottum each netted 12
points and Maria Gengler had 10. DSU earned a
27-20 field goal edge over Tech, but the Lady
Hardrockers outscored the Lady T's 25-17 from the
freethrow line.
The
Lady T's also had a 39-28 rebound edge over Tech, with
Nelson hauling in eight rebounds, Gengler seven and
Jessica VanLoy six. Carr had seven assists and
Bottum had four. Carr had three steals.
The
Trojans overcame a 25-point outing by Tech's Stacie
Vedvei. Her sister Melanie added 18 points and
Quinn Godecke had 12 to complete the Lady Hardrockers'
double-figure scoring. Melanie Vedvei also had
seven steals and four assists.
BHSU 66, DSU
63
The Lady T's couldn't quite
come back from a 15-point, 36-21, halftime deficit,
despite outscoring Black Hills State 42-30 in the second
half.
"We
let Black Hills State dominate the game in the first
half," admitted Dittman. "We were lucky not to be
further behind. In the second half, we played much
better, but it's not very often you overcome a 15-point
deficit and beat a team on the road."
Gengler had a 19-point game in the Black Hills State
contest. Nelson added 13 points and Stacy Dunklau
had 10. The Lady T's had a 25-22 field goal edge
over BHSU. VanLoy had seven rebounds and Dunklau
five for the Lady T's.
The
Yellow Jackets had five 3-pointers and outscored DSU
17-12 at the freethrow line. Brittney Klipfel had
18 points, Jaime Bentley 17 and Jill Thomas 10 for the
winners. Black Hills State outrebounded the Lady
T's 26-27, with Klipfel grabbing 11 rebounds.
The
Lady T's next action comes Dec. 30th when they host
Mount Marty College in the DSU Fieldhouse at 7:00 p.m.
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