Lady Knights go 1-2 in Shasta’s Tourney

By DANIEL FRIEDEMANN

The Lady Knights crushed Mission College 89-34 in the first game of the Shasta Regional Tournament. Head coach Jerry Brown was very pleased with how his Lady Knights played.

“I thought the kids came out and played extremely well,” Brown said. “The Mission team is not a very good basketball team. We didn’t lower ourselves to that. At the very start, the starters came out and played extremely hard and well. It’s hard to know who’s the leading scorer when you play a game like that.” Guard Lisa Taylor came off the bench and led the Lady Knights with 13 points.

“Lisa shot the ball extremely well, so I was very proud of her,” said Brown.

“It was really fun but I think we owe it to the first string coming out and playing very hard,” said Taylor.

Lady Knights fall to Merced 56-51 after blowing a 42-34 lead late in the second half

“You can’t beat a quality team like that with the mistakes that we’ve made,” said Brown. “We gave up too many second shots and we didn’t make a stretch when we really needed to. Against lesser teams, you can get away with it but against good quality teams you got to play good basketball and we didn’t.”

Lady Knights let another one escape, this time to Santa Rosa, 57-54.

“Mistakes and mistakes toward the end,” said Brown. “Missed assignments defensively… The bottom line is I didn’t do a good job myself, probably the last minute or so. I should have done a better job from the sideline as far as what I needed to do,” he said. “I thought we battled very well and we didn’t make the plays we needed to towards the end.”

Sophomore forward Amanda Potts led the Knights with 11 points. “We’re an inexperienced team and we need to work hard at closing it out,” said Potts.