Lady Tigers fall twice in narrow losses

The Mountain Home Lady Tigers showed considerable improvement in narrow road losses at Jerome and Kuna last week.

Jerome 43

Mountain Home 40

The Mountain Home Lady Tigers played their best ball game of the young season last Wednesday night at Jerome, but fell a little bit short, losing to the Jerome Lady Tigers 43-40.

The two teams battled to an 8-8 tie after a quarter. Mountain Home grabbed the lead in the second period, and led, 23-17, at the half.

Jerome battled back in the third quarter, but Mountain Home still led, 35-34, heading into the final eight minutes of play. In a battle down to the wire, Jerome pushed ahead, and held off the visiting Lady Tigers from Mountain Home, 43-40.

Mountain Home Lady Tiger coach Karen Kohring saw lots of good things against Jerome.

"It was good. We had a little bit better team output. Defensively, we matched up really well with them. Offensively, we were really focused and working hard on our patterns, knowing where each other were, so we were very much more pleased with the games than our previous ones."

Michelle Reynolds led Mountain Home in scoring with a season-high 13 points, including three treys. Nicole Roelofs also had a new season high, scoring eight points. Paula Doerr added seven points, Kaleena Bluemer and Erin Mullen both scored three, Katie Roelofs, Jessica Egusquiza and Bethany Law each tallied two points.

Mountain Home shot 33 percent (16/48)) from the field, including 60 percent (3/5) on three pointers. They shot 50 percent (5/10) from the free-throw line.

Jerome connected on 16 of 47 (34 percent) from the field, hitting 6 of 11 (55 percent) treys, and made five of seven (71 percent) from the charity stripe.

Mountain Home out rebounded their counterparts form Jerome, 41-26. with Jessica Egusquiza bringing down seven boards. Mountain Home cut down their turnovers (they were averaging 28 a game) , committing 20 in the game, to Jerome's 19.

Kuna 35

Mountain Home 30

Mountain Home returned to conference play Friday night at Kuna, and, take away a bad third quarter, played fairly well.

Kuna led the Lady Tigers, 8-4 after a quarter, but Mountain Home trailed by just a point, 17-16 at halftime.

Mountain Home managed just four points in the third quarter, while Kuna put in 11, to stretch their lead to 28-20, heading into the final period.

The Lady Tigers battled back in the fourth, but fell short, 35-30.

"At times we played well," said Coach Kohring. "The end was within five points, and we had a lot of different opportunities throughout the game that we could have brought it a lot closer, and hopefully, it would have been us up five points at the end."

Michelle Reynolds scored seven points to lead the Lady Tigers in scoring, followed by Jessica Egusquiza with six. Erica Stanton, Nicole Roelofs and Lisa Kellerman each scored four points, Paula Doerr and Bethany law both scored two, and Kaleena Bluemer and Erin Mullen each netted one point.

The Lady Tigers have played much better of late, and Coach Kohring hopes they can break into the win column Friday night at Caldwell.