Women drop 3 in Colorado

With the playoffs out of reach, and the season coming to a close, the women’s basketball team traveled to Colorado to play Metropolitan State University of Denver, Friday; the University of Colorado Colorado Springs, Saturday; and Regis University, Denver, Tuesday. The Eagles’ luck remained the same, going winless throughout the three games.
In the first quarter, against the Roadrunners of Metro State, the Eagles struggled to get any offensive production only scoring four points while allowing the Roadrunners to put up 15 points.
In the second quarter the Eagles managed to outscore the Roadrunners by a single point to try and close the gap. The Eagles scored 11 points, while allowing only 10 points out of a high-powered Roadrunner offense. Going into halftime, the score of the game was 25-15 in favor of the Roadrunners.
The Eagles came out hard in the second half scoring 28 points, tying the game at the end of the third quarter at 43.
The fourth quarter saw a lot of back-and-forth action from both teams with some good scoring performances. The Eagles scored 23 points while the Roadrunners scored 31. The Roadrunners found a way to hold the Eagles off late in the fourth quarter and win the game, 74-66.
Kylah Collins, redshirt freshman of Waukegan, Illinois, led the Eagles with 16 points, and Leticia Rodriguez, a junior of Chaparral, New Mexico, chipped in 13. The next night the Eagles traveled to Colorado Springs to face the UCCS Mountain Lions hoping to rebound from the slow start against the Roadrunners. The game started off as a shootout with both teams in double figures, but the Eagles were down two points going into the second quarter with a score of 21-19. The second quarter was much of the same with both teams again scoring in double figures. At halftime, the score was 36-32 in favor of the Mountain Lions.
UCCS started to pull away in the second half, outscoring the Eagles 21-10 in the third quarter to secure a comfy double-digit lead going into the fourth quarter. The fourth quarter was ugly for the Eagles; UCCS scored 33 points while the Eagles only put up seven. UCCS cruised to the finish line winning, 90-49. Erin Graham, senior of Deland, Florida, scored 19 points to lead the Eagles, while Kalli Feddersen, junior of Rawlings, Wyoming, and Rodriguez both chipped in 10. Graham, Feddersen, and Rodriguez combined for 39 of CSC’s 49 points.
The Eagles ended the weekend 0-2, but still had a quality Regis women’s team on the schedule to give them a much-needed win to salvage a rough season.
The Eagles came out firing but still found themselves down at the end of the first quarter by three points with a score of 22-19. The Rangers pulled away from the Eagles in the second quarter not only scoring 23 points, but only allowing six, which earned them a big lead going into halftime with a score of 35-25. The Eagles tried to rebound in the third quarter, putting up 19 points, but defensively they lacked intensity and allowed the Rangers to also score 19.
The Rangers outscored the Eagles in the fourth, winning the game 79-56. Feddersen led the Eagles with 16 points, Maddie Metzger, senior of Georgetown, Texas, chipped in 13 points and Graham added 12.
The Eagles have no games this weekend but will be home for their final two games of the season against Black Hills State University, Spearfish, South Dakota, and South Dakota School of Mines & Technology, Rapid City, on Friday, Feb. 24, and Saturday, Feb. 25, respectively.