The North Central Missouri College Lady Pirates scored the basketball consistently, but struggled to keep their opponents off the board, in falling in games on Friday night and Saturday afternoon from the Miami-Dade College campus in south Florida.
On Friday night, the Lady Pirates fell behind the Miami-Dade Sharks by nine points after one quarter, and despite playing even ball through the last three quarters, fell by a final score of 94-85.
In her top scoring game to date as a Lady Pirate, freshman point guard Kendey Eaton scored 32 points to lead the way for North Central. McKinley Hurley added 12, with Asia Young and Sarah Lamp each scoring 10 for NCMC. Kelly Warford came off the bench to grab 10 rebounds for the Lady Pirates.
North Central’s women, according to Coach Jenni Croy, “battled hard against a Miami-Dade team that started three women at six feet tall”. Coach Croy added her team “played scrappy and never gave up, representing NCMC well.”
On Saturday afternoon, the Lady Pirates returned to Miami-Dade to play Broward College. Against a team currently in first place in Florida’s Southern Conference, North Central came up on the short end of an 83-71 final score. Lamp and Eaton both scored 21 points for NCMC, while Hurley and Young both scored 10.
The Lady Pirates, 8-5 on the season, are now off for Christmas Break. The next practice for the NCMC women will be Monday, January 2nd. The next game is Wednesday, January 11th, at the Ketcham Community Center against the University of St. Mary JV. Tip time is slated for 5:30. The first Region 16 game of the season will follow on Saturday, January 14th, with NCMC hosting St. Louis CC at 1 o’clock.
