Cold shooting Lady Cougars suffer second straight setback, fall 72-52 at Butler
The Barton Community College women’s basketball team was held to its lowest scoring output of the season in a 72-52 defeat to the No. 8 ranked Butler Community College Grizzlies Wednesday night at the Power Plant in El Dorado, Kansas. For the second straight game the Lady Cougars found itself facing a double-digit deficit early in the contest as Butler scored the game’s first twelve points. Trailing by nineteen at the halftime break, the Lady Cougars began the second half on a 10-3 run to cut the lead to twelve. Three minutes later Barton would cut the lead to twelve again but it was as close as the Lady Cougars would come in the last fourteen minutes of play. With the loss Barton drops to 9-3 on the season while Butler improves to 12-1. The Lady Cougars will head to Trenton, Missouri, for a weekend classic at North Central Missouri College, playing the host at 7:30 p.m. Friday. Barton will then have a short turnaround with a 12:00 p.m. Saturday matchup against Ancilla College.
The Barton Community College women's basketball team was held to its lowest scoring output of the season in a 72-52 defeat to the No. 8 ranked Butler Community College Grizzlies Wednesday night at the Power Plant in El Dorado, Kansas. For the second straight game the Lady Cougars found itself facing a double-digit deficit early in the contest as Butler scored the game's first twelve points. Trailing by nineteen at the halftime break, the Lady Cougars began the second half on a 10-3 run to cut the lead to twelve. Three minutes later Barton would cut the lead to twelve again but it was as close as the Lady Cougars would come in the last fourteen minutes of play. With the loss Barton drops to 9-3 on the season while Butler improves to 12-1. The Lady Cougars will head to Trenton, Missouri, for a weekend classic at North Central Missouri College, playing the host at 7:30 p.m. Friday. Barton will then have a short turnaround with a 12:00 p.m. Saturday matchup against Ancilla College.
On a frigid Kansas night, neither team burned up the nets throughout the night. Barton shot only 26.3% from the field connected on only 15-of-57 shots, including a miserable 2-of-19 (10.5%) from beyond the arc. Butler wasn't much better from the field shooting only 32.3 % (21-of-65) but connected on 6-of-16 from behind the arc (37.5%).
Kailai Brantner led only two Lady Cougars in double figures, scoring fourteen points and dishing out three assists. Cheyenne Hedrington scored twelve with Ashton Bruner close behind with nine points to go along with eleven rebounds.
Ashley Gibson posted her second straight double-double leading Butler with nineteen points and sixteen rebounds while also leading in steals with three. Teanna Reid and Te'era Williams scored sixteen and thirteen points respectively while Ashlee Ivy led the Grizzlies in assists with five.