Women lose 2 games in Colorado, 4-19 overall

On Friday, the CSC women’s basketball team traveled to Lakewood, Colo., to face the 12-11 Colorado Christian University Cougars. The Eagles suffered an 81-61 loss against Colorado Christian.

CSC’s leading scorer was Kattie Ranta, senior of Rapid City, S.D., with 16 points in the entire game.

Forward Kayli Rageth, senior of Kimball, put up another 13 points for the Eagles.

Guard Dallas Shaw, junior of Buffalo, Wyo., added 10 points.

Ranta was CSC’s leading rebounder with 10 rebounds.

Forward Greer Babbe, senior of Papillion, was just behind her with seven rebounds.

Head Coach Tim Connealy said, “I thought we did a good job in the first half of moving the ball on the offensive end and getting good shots.

“The chemistry we have developed in our offense the last month and half is starting to show and we saw that in the first half Friday.

“I thought we did a good job controlling their main threat on the offensive end, Christina Whitelaw, and limiting her easy baskets. Obviously we lost so it didn’t go the way we wanted.”

The Eagles scored 25 points in the first half, which was no match to Colorado Christian’s 32. The streak continued as CSC scored 36 points in the second half.

The Eagles had 22 turnovers for the game.

“Our next three games are all at home and that is encouraging,” Connealy said. “We have played very well at home this year, especially our last four games. We gain a lot of energy having the home crowd behind us and we appreciate every bit of the support.”

Chadron State lost to Colorado Mines, 87-63, during the last regular season away game Saturday.

It was an even game in the first half with the Orediggers taking a point lead at halftime.

The Eagles made 14 of 27 from the field in the first half, including five of 10 from downtown.

The Eagles were in the game until Mines went on a run in the second half, and they never trailed after that.

Ranta led the Eagles with 19 points.

Rageth and Kate Simonton, junior of Bakersfield, Calif., scored 17 and 11 points respectively.

Courtney Gallo, senior of Lone Tree, Colo., led Mines with 24 points. Three other Orediggers scored in double figures. Tory Langas, senior of Highlands Ranch, Colo., Courtney Martin, sophomore of Parker, Colo., Katie Clements, redshirt senior of Thornton, Colo., scored 14, 13, and 11 points respectively.

Mines scored 30 points off Chadron’s turnovers, and they got a 30-point contribution from its bench.

Chadron will host Colorado-Colorado Springs at 5:30 p.m. Friday and Colorado State University-Pueblo at 5:30 p.m. Saturday.