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MCC women tip Region IX aiming to repeat Monday
McCOOK, Neb. — The McCook Community College women will start post-season play Saturday against a team they faced to end the regular season Monday– Northeastern Junior College.
The women, under coach Brandon Pritchett, won the Nebraska Community College Athletic Conference title going 5-1, but in Region IX south play the team went 4-6 (12-18 overall) and ended up with the fifth seed out of six teams.
At the regular season finale Monday, MCC lost 70-69 in overtime to NJC which put the two teams in a tie for fourth place, but the Plainswomen held the tiebreaker over MCC and now the two teams will play again in Sterling, Colo. for a play-in game at 5 p.m. (CDT).
In Monday’s game, MCC missed 10 free throws, turned the ball over 18 times and shot 20 percent from the 3-point line and Pritchett would like to see a better showing in all those categories.
In their first matchup of the season in Sterling, Colo. on Feb. 4, MCC won 76-72.
After getting outscored 16-2 to start that game, MCC came back to tie the game at the end of the third quarter, executed offensively and hit free throws.
“It should be a good game as our two prior games were close this season,” said Pritchett.
After a 74-66 loss to North Platte on Jan. 24, MCC won six straight games, then lost four of five to end the season.
Pritchett’s squad led all teams in free throw percentage, shooting 73.2 percent. That is 10th best in the nation among 169 Division 1 schools. Sophomore Vanessa Jurewicz (Stockholm, Sweden) leads MCC and is second among Region IX south players in scoring, averaging 15.2 points per game.
Redshirt freshman Taryn Lindsey (Fountain, Colo.) is second on the team and fifth in the south scoring 12.4 points per game. The 5-5 guard also led the team in rebounding with 4.5 per game. She is shooting 85.3 percent from the free-throw line.