Women looking forward after loss

Jordan Bass
Staff Writer
Dec. 9, 2004, Page 10

The Doane Tiger women’s basketball team looks to rebound from a 65-51 loss to Concordia University, as they travel to Yankton, SD Saturday to take on Mount Marty.
Doane, 7-4 and 3-2 in the Great Plains Athletic Conference, will try to protect their #24 NAIA ranking against the 6-4 Lancers, who are receiving votes in that same poll.
Head women’s basketball coach Tracee Fairbanks says the Lancers will provide a tough test for her Tiger team.
“It’s really going to be a good game, we are neck and neck in the conference standings and they have beaten some good teams.” Fairbanks said. “We need to do a better job of doing the little things to beat Mount Marty.”
Doane is led in scoring this year by senior Laci Stewart with 12.9 points a game and senior Josi Gronemeyer with 11.4 points a game.
Mount Marty is led in scoring by center Jess Krull, who is averaging 12.0 points a game. Guard Tevan Wenbourne is averaging 10.5 points a game.
The Tigers and Lancers have one similar opponent in the Hastings Broncos. Doane lost to the Broncos on Nov. 20, 66-55. Mount Marty also fell to Hastings, losing 83-62 on Saturday.
One particular performance by the Lancers impressed Fairbanks.
“Mount Marty beat Sioux Falls, who is a quality team, by 21 on their home court,” Fairbanks said.
Sioux Falls was ranked 21st in the preseason NAIA polls.
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Tigers put 90 up on NWU

Jessica Votipka
Staff Writer
Dec. 12, 2004, Page 7

The Doane Tiger women’s basketball team completed the sweep of Nebraska Wesleyan with a 90-62 victory over the Prairie Wolves.
The Tiger recorded 25 steals in the game, and Laci Stewart and Josi Gronemeyer paced the Tigers in scoring.
This weekend, Doane defeated Midland Lutheran.
Doane had a field goal percentage of 53.4 for the 83-70 victory against Midland, and dropped to 31.7 percent in their 51-84 loss to Sterling. There was also a significant difference between the games in 3-point shots scored: 42.9 percent in the Midland game, and 16.7 percent versus Sterling.
Head coach Tracee Fairbanks was happy with the team's energy.
"I felt really good about the effort we put forth," Fairbanks said.
However, Fairbanks saw a difference in the team against Sterling.
"We came out a different ball club." Fairbanks said. "We didn't do the little things we talked about."
Fairbanks said the next step for the Tigers will be "working toward consistency."
Regardless of the loss to Sterling, guard Shana Reese expressed a constructive attitude.
“All we can do now is learn from our loss and get ready for the next game," Reese said.