MCC's road win keeps women unbeaten in league

BEATRICE, Neb – The McCook Community College women’s basketball team picked up a road win Tuesday night to remain undefeated in Nebraska Community College Athletic Conference Play. MCC improved to 5-0 in the conference with an 89-79 win.

“That was a tough Southeast team that played really hard tonight,” said MCC Coach Brandon Pritchett. “I thought we executed well on the offensive end tonight and shot the ball well on the road.”

Southeast emerged with a 22-18 lead after 10 minutes but MCC went up 44-39 at the half. Southeast pushed back with a 25-21 edge in the third quarter to make it a 65-64 game heading into the fourth quarter.

Sophomore Vanessa Jurewicz (Stockholm, Sweden) led all scorers with 24 points. She was three of four from the 3-point line. Sophomore Alyssa Van Vleet (Oberlin, Kan.) scored 17 points including a three of six night at the 3-point line and a six-for-six night at the line, along with eight boards.

“Vanessa was really efficient tonight and really took over for us in the first half,” Pritchett said. “Our guards rebounded really well tonight with Carla, Alyssa, Shelby crashing.”

Sophomore Shelby Clark (Las Vegas, Nevada) scored seven points and had seven rebounds. Sophomore Carla Torrubia Cano (Melilla, Spain) had 11 points and eight rebounds.

Sophomore Sonia Sato (El Paso, Texas) scored 15 points and had nine rebounds and Maite Lara Garcia (sophomore, Sant Joan Despi, Spain) scored 12 points and had eight rebounds.

“Sonia was close to another double-double for us. She started slow but had a great second half,” Pritchett said.

MCC shot 51.7 percent from the floor, made eight of 18 from distance (42.1 percent) and sank 20 of 24 free throws (83.3 percent).

Southeast duplicated MCC’s showing from the floor as both teams made 30 of 58 shots and both shot 51.7 percent. The Storm made seven of 16 3pointers and were just 12 of 24 at the line (50 percent).

MCC held a 42-24 rebound edge, turned the ball over 15 times and had 20 assists.

“Again we shared the ball well and looked to get each other involved.” Pritchett said. “We had great production tonight and we showed tonight what we are capable of doing nightly.”

MCC improves to 16-9 and has one final NCCAC game left: Feb. 15 at North Platte. On Friday MCC is back into the Region IX schedule with a road game at Lamar Community College.

Southeast goes to 11-12 and 0-3 in NCCAC