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LIBERAL, Mo. —
The St. Mary’s Colgan girls started out with the first points of the game Thursday night and led for the vast majority of the first half.
After halftime, Liberal held a 27-15 advantage on the scoreboard and Colgan matched its second half points in turnovers en route to a 51-38 win for Liberal in a rematch of the Tony Dubray Classic title game.
“We just put ourselves in bad positions and we played pretty good two-and-a-half maybe three quarters but we haven’t put four quarters together in quite a while,” Colgan head coach Abby Farabi said. “We’re in a stretch where this can’t be happening.”
Colgan senior Taylor Bolinger made her first two 3-point shots, even when Liberal head coach Brandi Goodell knew the second one was coming and was screaming at her player to work her way through a Sydney Beck screen to get to Bolinger in the corner. At point, Colgan took its early 6-0 lead. However, Bolinger would not score again until she made a 3-pointer with 2:40 left in the contest and Liberal enjoyed a 10-point lead.
The Panthers did not score for the first 5 1/2 minutes of the second half with seven turnovers coming before the first two points by Nichole Kolarik. Colgan sophomore Aliee Story made a mid-range shot on a press break for a 34-29 game late in the quarter but Liberal pushed the lead to 36-29 as McKenna Higgins scored one at the buzzer.
Colgan made a run or two on the lead in the fourth but could never get any closer than five and Liberal closed out the scoring with the final six points.
“We’re just very inconsistent,” Farabi said. “We’ve got to figure out a way to attack. We are in Missouri and they play a little different style of basketball. We have to adjust and be more aggressive. I need some girls to step up and want to score.”
Colgan seemed to have production in spurts from isolated players but never with any sustained consistency.
“That’s definitely the key,” Farabi said. “We’ve got two or three going on a night when we need four or five. That’s where we need to be at by the end of February.”
Bolinger led Colgan with nine points, all on 3-point shots, and the Panthers received seven points apiece from senior Nichole Kolarik and freshman Halee Pace. Mariah Klenke added six and Katie Kolarik added three points and a game-high 11 rebounds.
The St. Mary’s Colgan girls started out with the first points of the game Thursday night and led for the vast majority of the first half.
After halftime, Liberal held a 27-15 advantage on the scoreboard and Colgan matched its second half points in turnovers en route to a 51-38 win for Liberal in a rematch of the Tony Dubray Classic title game.
“We just put ourselves in bad positions and we played pretty good two-and-a-half maybe three quarters but we haven’t put four quarters together in quite a while,” Colgan head coach Abby Farabi said. “We’re in a stretch where this can’t be happening.”
Colgan senior Taylor Bolinger made her first two 3-point shots, even when Liberal head coach Brandi Goodell knew the second one was coming and was screaming at her player to work her way through a Sydney Beck screen to get to Bolinger in the corner. At point, Colgan took its early 6-0 lead. However, Bolinger would not score again until she made a 3-pointer with 2:40 left in the contest and Liberal enjoyed a 10-point lead.
The Panthers did not score for the first 5 1/2 minutes of the second half with seven turnovers coming before the first two points by Nichole Kolarik. Colgan sophomore Aliee Story made a mid-range shot on a press break for a 34-29 game late in the quarter but Liberal pushed the lead to 36-29 as McKenna Higgins scored one at the buzzer.
Colgan made a run or two on the lead in the fourth but could never get any closer than five and Liberal closed out the scoring with the final six points.
“We’re just very inconsistent,” Farabi said. “We’ve got to figure out a way to attack. We are in Missouri and they play a little different style of basketball. We have to adjust and be more aggressive. I need some girls to step up and want to score.”
Colgan seemed to have production in spurts from isolated players but never with any sustained consistency.
“That’s definitely the key,” Farabi said. “We’ve got two or three going on a night when we need four or five. That’s where we need to be at by the end of February.”
Bolinger led Colgan with nine points, all on 3-point shots, and the Panthers received seven points apiece from senior Nichole Kolarik and freshman Halee Pace. Mariah Klenke added six and Katie Kolarik added three points and a game-high 11 rebounds.
Rachel Dugan scored a game-high 13 points for the Bulldogs and finished with six rebounds. Baylee Robertson scored 10 of her 12 after halftime, as her teammates found her for multiple open looks, and Higgins gave Liberal three players with 10 points. Liberal outrebounded Colgan 24-22 and took over control of the glass the final three quarters.
The Panthers defeated Liberal the first time around in the Dubray Classic title game, 56-49. Since then, Colgan owns four straight losses — a 42-41 heartbreaker to Columbus in overtime, 52-43 to Lamar (Mo.) and 41-33 to state-ranked Girard on Tuesday before Thursday night.
A three-game winning streak, a three-game losing streak, a four-game winning streak and a four-game losing streak (in that order) add up to a 7-7 season thus far for Colgan.
The Panthers (0-2 CNC) look for their first Crawford-Neosho-Cherokee win tonight at Southeast, a 7-6 squad which lost its first two CNC games against Baxter Springs and Frontenac.
