Feddersen racks up 46 points in 2 weekend games

Needing a win to get their season back on track the women’s basketball team traveled to Colorado to play Adams State University, Alamosa, and Fort Lewis College, Durango. The Eagles beat ASU 78-66, but lost to the Skyhawks 92-80.
The Eagles started the weekend playing the Grizzlies of Adams State. A slow CSC start in the first quarter allowed the Grizzlies to get off to a 24-17 lead going into the second quarter. The Eagles exploded in the second quarter offensively scoring 25 points, while only giving up 12 on the defensive end of the floor.
Junior guard Kalli Feddersen, of Rawlings, Wyoming, provided the largest offense spark for the Eagles. Feddersen dropped 19 points which led all players. Two Eagles also recorded good nights from the field, Erin Graham, senior point guard of Deland, Florida, managed to score 17 points while dishing out four assists in 39 minutes. Leticia Rodriguez, junior of Chaparral, New Mexico, also scored 17 points in her 29 minutes of play to help the Eagles take a 12-point victory in Alamosa, 78-66.
“We had an overall great team effort from the team on both sides of the ball, we executed at the right times and got what we needed,” Feddersen said. “Defensively we worked hard all night to limit their scoring.”
Riding the momentum of a hard-fought victory the Eagles drove into Durango looking to repeat their performance from the previous night. The Eagles started taking an early 21-18 lead at the end of the first quarter. That lead would be short lived as the Skyhawks dominated the second quarter giving the Eagles 18 points while scoring 26 points of their own to take a slim lead going into halftime.
The Skyhawks sustained a big enough lead to win the game, 92-80. Feddersen continued to show her offensive dominance by scoring 27 points shooting 11-14 from the field and 2-6 from the 3-point line. Kylah Collins, redshirt freshman forward of Waukegan, Illinois, added 19 points, shooting 9-14 from the field and 1-1 from the free-throw line.
Defensively the Eagles couldn’t stop the Skyhawks from scoring, and were outscored in every quarter except the first. Fort Lewis also managed to score 50 points in the paint to help them cruise to an easy victory.
“Against Fort Lewis we put up a lot of points but our defense as a team needed to be stronger so we are spending a lot of time on it this week in practice,” Havannah Newens, senior guard of Mitchell, said. “We feel that in order to get two wins this weekend we have to slow down other team’s offense, while continuing to score the way we have been, we really need to lock in on defense if we want a win.”
The Eagles will play two home games this weekend against the Colorado State University-Pueblo, Pueblo, and New Mexico Highlands University, Las Vegas. Tipoff for both games is 5:30 p.m.