Dakota State University's Lady
T's took an early lead in the
DAC-10 women's basketball standings by dishing out road
wins over Minot State (73-60) Friday and Dickinson State
(79-54) Saturday. With the
wins, Jeff Dittman's Lady T's ran their overall record to
8-2 and 2-0 in the conference.
"This
was a great effort for the opening weekend of conference
play," said Dittman. "We were able to pick up two road
wins against quality teams in our league. Now, we have to
play with the same kind of effectiveness against Valley
City State and Mayville State at home this Friday and
Saturday."
Lady T's 79, Dickinson 54
With
Stacy Dunklau and Laura Tewes entering double-figure
displays of 14 and 13 points and both
hauling in 10 rebounds, the Lady Trojans outplayed
Dickinson (4-5, 1-1) Saturday.
 "We
were able to take advantage of our height by going to
Stacy and Laura," said Dittman. "Then, when the defense
tried to help, Angie Carr (who wound up with nine points)
hit 3-for-5 from beyond the
three-point arc."
Renae
Bottum and Andrea Gullickson also scored six points apiece
as Dakota State outgunned Dickinson 32-19 in field goals.
Sara
Berglund, April Tormansche and Stacy Milanovich all had
double-digit scoring for Dickinson, contributing,
respectively 14, 11 and 11 points.
The
Lady T's, which led 44-26 at halftime, also created a huge
45-29 rebound edge over Dickinson.
"Our defense was able to put a lot of pressure on
their shots, and for the most part, we were able to hold
them to only one shot each possession," said Dittman.
Lady T's 73, Minot 60
Dakota
State overcame a 32-30 halftime deficit against Minot
Friday and put together a 43-28 second half.
"We held them to just one point in the first eight
minutes of the second half while scoring 14 points to
build an 11-point lead," said Dittman. "Minot made a
couple of runs at us in the last five minutes, but the
combined 6-for-8 freethrow shooting by Angie and Stacy
allowed us to hold them off and pick up the win."
Dakota
State's Maria Gengler had a 17-point game for herself and
led all scorers. The Lady T's also got 14 more points from
Tewes and a dozen by Dunklau.
Tewes' seven rebounds and seven more from Dunklau
helped the Lady T's outrebound Minot 39-21.
Minot got 16 points from Rashawna Mays, along with 11 more
from Brandy Howard and 10 by Kendra Meyer.
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