The Lipscomb Lady Bisons fell to The Freed-Hardman Lions, 81-64, in an exhibition game Thursday night in Allen Arena.
The Bisons kept the score close for the first four minutes of the game, trailing 7-6. However, the Lions went on a 9-0 run in the next two minutes which brought the score to 16-7. The Lady Bisons had six turnovers in the first quarter, compared to the Lions who had only one. This helped lead to The Lady Bisons’ trailing behind the Lady Lions with a score of 21-14 after the first quarter.
In the second quarter, the Bisons were able to improve their field goal percentage from 38% to 47%. However, after adding five more turnovers to their turnover total they remained down 43-30 at the end of the half.
The Lions outscored the Bisons by only 4 points in the second half, but the Bisons’ struggles in the beginning kept them down, causing them to lose by 17 points.
Lady Bison’s Head Coach Greg Brown remarked on the loss saying, “We wanted to come in and be simple, be solid and try to execute and finally, by about the 4th quarter, we did, but we had had dug ourselves in too deep of a hole.
“We had too many turnovers and lost too many rebounds.” Coach Brown went on to say how they can look back on this loss and learn from it.
The Bisons shot a mere 14% from the three-point line for the game, which Brown attributes mostly to the nervous atmosphere. “Some of the shots were a little quick, some of them were good shots and just didn’t fall, but I think some of that is nerves,” Brown said. “We got a lot of new guys, and everybody’s trying to force their shot.”
The Lady Bisons will have one more exhibition game against Rhodes College on Saturday November 5 before starting their regular season. “We’re going to look to improve on our communication, rebounding and taking care of the ball, and hopefully these next six days will get us ready to do that. Our plan is to see a significant improvement by then,” said Coach Brown.
The Lady Bisons first regular season game will be at Loyola, Friday November 11. Brown is hopeful as he looks forward. “We’re excited, we got depth, we’re finally starting to get some guys back from injury, we feel like we can compete with anybody on our schedule.”
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