ssttaarr--nneewwss sports The Goodland Star-News / Friday, December 9, 2005 11 Cowgirls win Former ’Dawg opener, 63-49 scores 10 again Alicia Collett, a junior forward at The Warriors defeated McPhers- By Greg Stover other Cowgirls scored in double fig- Sterling College, scored 10 points on College 67-60 on Dec. 1 to open The Goodland Star-News ures: junior Emily Murray with 15 in the Lady Warriors’ 70-64 home play in the Kansas Collegiate Ath- The Goodland High School girls and senior Melissa Swager with 10. loss to Tabor College last letic Conference. scored first against the Lady Cou- Juniors Kaylee Billinger and Saturday. Sterling split its two gars of Burlington on Tuesday at Lindsay Schields both scored six, Sterling is 6-4 overall games at Colorado Chris- Max Jones Fieldhouse and led sophomore Samantha Raymer and 1-1 in the Kansas Col- tian University’s Thanks- throughout the game to win their scored four and junior Whitney Ar- legiate Athletic Confer- giving tournament two home opener 63-49. cher two. ence. The Warriors next weekends ago, winning The Cowgirls owned the first Swager grabbed 11 rebounds court action is Saturday 81-73 over the University three minutes of the game, building with Murray getting nine. Raymer against Kansas Wesleyan of Colorado at Colorado up a 10-0 lead before Burlington’s got four, Billinger three and senior University in Sterling. Springs that Friday then Courtney Duell hit a three-pointer Andrea Grieve two. Both Schields Collett’s 10 points losing to the host team 68- to put the Lady Cougars on the and junior Stephanie Sheldon got against Tabor matches her Collett 59 the next day. Collett scoreboard. After that, both teams one. season-high scoring out- scored eight points in scored six points to make it 16-9. The Cowgirls outrebounded put first achieved on Nov. 12 against Friday’s game and four in Satur- Then Goodland junior Emily Burlington 44-25. MidAmerica Nazarene University day’s. Murray hit a three-point shot just Coach Smith did say he was not during the Pioneer Classic in The Lady Warriors were ranked before the buzzer to give Goodland happy with the number of fouls, es- Olathe. No. 11 in the National Association a 10-point lead, 19-9, going into the pecially in the second half. Collett, a 2003 graduate of Brew- of Intercollegiate Athletics’ Divi- second period. Both teams had nine fouls in the ster High, is in her third season with sion II preseason poll, but fell to No. The Cowgirls slowly increased first half, but Goodland committed the Warriors. She has 60 points and 25 in the season’s first poll released their lead throughout the second 13 in the second, 11 of which sent 30 rebounds for the season. Wednesday. quarter and went into the locker Cougar players to the free throw Alicia, the daughter of Scott and Sterling was picked to finish sec- room at halftime with a 34-20 ad- line resulting in nine points. Poor Alice Collett of Levant, is studying ond, behind Tabor, out of the vantage. free-throw shooting by Burlington, exercise science at Sterling. She conference’s 10 teams in both the About halfway through the third 9 of 21, kept the Cougars from capi- plans to attend chiropractic school coaches and media preseason polls. period Goodland enjoyed at 43-24 talizing on the opportunities. after graduation, her mother said. Tabor, ranked No. 4 in the na- lead but Burlington then went on an The Cowgirls lost two of their Collett was named to the All- tional preseason poll, dropped to eight-point run to make it 43-32. By starters to ankle injuries during the Western Kansas Liberty League No. 9 this week. the end of the quarter, they had cut game. Archer left the game after team her junior and senior seasons Tabor is 7-3 overall and 2-0 in the the Cowgirls’ lead to 10 at 45-35. hurting her left ankle in the first pe- while at Brewster. She also was a conference going into its game The Cougars scored first in the riod. In the fourth junior, Schields second-team all-league pick in vol- Thursday at Southwestern College final period to make it an eight- left after injuring her right. Neither leyball her senior year. in Winfield. point gap, but that was as close as player returned to the game. Burlington came. The Cowgirls Coach Don Smith said it was un- went on to win by 14, 63-49. likely either girl would be able to area basketball scores Coach Don Smith said he used a play in Thursday’s game against different lineups during the game Wray. He said their status would be Area High School Basketball Oberlin 40, Atwood 38 and gave his players a lot of credit evaluated day by day. December 6 Quinter 63, Ransom 33 for being flexible and making it After the Cowgirls play their fi- Grainfield 57, Oakley 56 work against Burlington. He said nal game of the Topside Tip-Off on Northwest Kansas League Boys Western Kansas Liberty League that was something he has been Saturday, they will have two days to Goodland 76, Burlington, Colo. 61 Boys working on in practice, and it paid get ready for the Lady Indians of Hays 54, Colby 47 Ellis 72, Grainfield 66 off on Tuesday. Hays High, who defeated Colby 46- Oberlin 52, Atwood 44 Senior Justeen Koehler led 38 on Tuesday to improve to 2-2 for Senior Justeen Koehler (white jersey) scored two of her game-high Quinter 58, Ransom 52 (in ot) Girls Grinnell 48, Hays Center, Neb. 28 Goodland in scoring and rebounds the season. Tipoff will be around 20 points during the second half of the Cowgirls’ 63-49 win over Girls Rexford 76, Idalia, Colo. 35 for the second straight game, get- 5:30 p.m. at Max Jones Fieldhouse. the Lady Cougars of Burlington on Tuesday at Max Jones Goodland 63, Burlington, Colo. 49 Grainfield 57, Oakley 56 ting 20 points and 13 boards. Two Fieldhouse. Photo by Tom Betz/The Goodland Star-News Hays 46, Colby 38 correction Classifieds work! 899-2338 The score of the Goodland-Impe- Star-News. The score was 61-46, correct any mistake or misunder- rial, Neb., girls game was reported not 61-44. This was a reporting er- standing in a news story. 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