When one is winning games by 25 or more points every time it goes out on the floor, a challenge is welcomed every now and then.
After spending the better part of a month on the road, the Lowry High School freshmen girls were back at home Tuesday. The Lady Bucks found themselves in a battle, at least for three quarters, before pulling away to beat Spring Creek 48-31. Lowry improved to 11-1 overall and 8-0 in the Division I-A North.
"It was good for these girls to be in a close game," said LHS coach Amy Jenkins. "It gives me a chance to see what we have to work and improve on. We didn't play defense that well and they out rebounded us all night. The one thing I always stress is to get their body in there and box out. They broke our press easily at times."
The Lady Bucks scored seven of the first nine points, with five of those by Audrey Snow. McKenna Jones had the other bucket in the run.
Aimee Brandon opened the second quarter with a basket to push the Lowry lead to four points at 11-7, when Spring Creek answered back to tie the game.
The Lady Bucks scored the next six points off of baskets by Snow, Kenadee Miller and Brooklyn Backus to go in front by six points and they never trailed again.
Lowry slowly opened up the margin in the third quarter, with Backus pushing the advantage to double figures at 39-28 on a short baseline jump shot. The Spartans came back to trim the deficit to 37-31 with 4:02 left in the game, only to see the Lady Bucks respond with the final 11 points of the afternoon. Six of those points came from Amaya Herrera.
"I like the way we played in the fourth quarter," Jenkins said. "After the game the girls said 'they are a second half team.'" We can't be a second half team. We have to be a team that plays four quarters. I am glad Spring Creek gave us a run for our money. I expected they would."
Snow led all scorers with 23 points while Herrera joined her in double figures with 10. Backus and Miller each scored four, Jones three and Savanna Cox, Alyssa Campbell and Brandon had two points apiece.
Lowry traveled to Truckee last Saturday and ran away with a 61-16 victory. The Wolverines did not score more than six points in any quarter. Leading by 16 points at halftime, the Lady Bucks broke the game open with a 36-6 run in the second half. The contest was played with a running clock for most of the fourth quarter.
Nine different players scored for Lowry as Hannah Hillyer nearly outscored Truckee by herself with 15 points. Snow and Backus reached double figures with 10 each and Alexis Allen and Herrera had eight each. Cox scored four, and Kenadee Jeppsen, Campbell and Miller had two apiece.[[In-content Ad]]
