Lady Stangs Come Close in Gunnison

SILVER CITY WEATHER

Tom Shelley for District 5 Commissioners

: Category: Sports; 09 December 2012

by Michael Rowse

Coach Rusty Kennedy has taken over a WNMU team that was mired in the midst of several long losing streaks and, with little time to recruit, has nonetheless molded the Stangs into a competitive team. Once again WNMU played hard and had a late lead against Western State Colorado University, but faded down the stretch to drop the contest 59-50 in Gunnison CO.

WNMU closed the first half strong after allowing WSCU to come back and tie the game at 34. Desiree Young started a Lady Stang run with a layup off of a fast break and Kassie Scott added a jumper off of an offensive rebound on the next possession, and Western New Mexico had the lead at the intermission 38-34.

The home team would come out of the break quickly getting a 4-0 spurt to start play in the second half to tie the game. Morgan Wohltman, once again playing like the All RMAC performer she was two season ago, got a layup to regain the lead for the purple and gold. Morgan struck again shortly after that hitting a short jump shot to rebuild the lead to four points at the 15:50 mark. Three minutes later Wohltman nailed a three point shot to give Western New Mexico their largest lead of the game, 45-39.

WSCU charged back over the next three minutes stifling the Mustang shooting, but once again Wohltman answered with a three point bomb giving WNMU a 47-44 lead with 8:48 to go in the game. After both teams failed to score in the next two minutes, WSCU came roaring back with a three pointer of their own to tie the game then building a seven point advantage putting together a 10-0 run from which the Mustangs wouldn't recover.

Scott ended the home team's run with a jumper from 15 feet but WSCU had the answer drilling a three pointer on their next possession to end any threat the Lady Stangs would make. WNMU held the advantage on the boards, 40-30 but shot only 34% from the floor compared to 43.8% by Western State. Wohltman paced the Lady Stangs with a game high 19 points while Kim Clark added 11 and Scott 10. Heather Hamilton lead Western in rebounding with 9 to go along with 6 points.

WNMU will return home for a pair of RMAC contests against CSU-Pueblo on Friday and UC-Colorado Springs on Saturday.

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