Lady Cards Split The Week

Last week the Lady Cardinals basketball team took part in a pair of important district games. 

With Malad running away with the district it looks like it’s a race for second place.  The Lady Cardinals are in prime position to grab that number two seed along with two other teams.  One of those teams are the Lady Tigers from Aberdeen.  Those Lady Tigers are who the Lady Cardinals hosted last Wednesday.  A Soda Springs victory would have set them up in a good position to claim that number two seed in the upcoming district tournament.  Unfortunately that is not how things went for Soda Springs that day.  In that game you could look at all of the usual reasons for the Lady Cardinals struggles such as turnovers or miscues on defense but ultimately it boiled down to Soda Springs just could not get shots to fall.  The Lady Cardinals had plenty of good looks at the basket but few shots would fall throughout the first half of the game.  Meanwhile the Lady Tigers seemed like they could not miss.  By halftime Aberdeen had built a twelve point lead while the Lady Cardinals had only managed fifteen total points.  In the third quarter Soda Springs would start to make some headway but could only get to within nine by the end of the third quarter.  In the fourth quarter the lid finally came off of the hoop and the Lady Cardinals began to pour in three point shots.  Soda Springs would hit five three point shots and score nearly half of their game total points in the period.  Though they would get to within a single point the Lady Cardinals could not get over the hump and eventually fell by just two points.

Trying to put the frustrating loss behind them, the Lady Cardinals next took on the Lady Pirates from West Side.  Once again Soda Springs had some early trouble scoring and after the first period the Lady Cardinals trailed by one.  In the second quarter the game would stay close with the Lady Cardinals earning the advantage.  At the halftime break Soda Springs had taken the lead by four points.  In the third quarter of play the scoring troubles returned for the Lady Cardinals.  They would only be able to score four points in the quarter while West Side would add eight tying the game up.  Just like their early game last week the Lady Cardinals would explode on offense in the fourth quarter.  Once again Soda Springs nearly doubled their score in the fourth quarter alone but the Lady Pirates were not going away.  West Side also had their biggest quarter in the fourth but in the end the Cardinals were too much for the Lady Pirates.  Anna Davis had a terrific week and led the scoring in both games.  In the West Side game Davis hit 3 three-point shots and was an impressive seven for eight from the charity stripe.  Against Aberdeen Davis hit 4 three-pointers and went three for five from the foul line.

The Cardinals have just one game on the schedule this week, a home game against Declo.  Next week Soda wraps up the regular season with games at Malad and Aberdeen.  The Aberdeen game will likely determine the second seed in the district tournament.

Cardinals 7 8 9 23 47

Tigers 12 15 6 16 49

C. Gronning 9, A. Davis 17, M. Kempe 4, E. Wood 7, J. Parker 5, Frandsen 5

Cardinals 8 11 4 17 40

Pirates 9 6 8 12 35

C. Gronning 8, A. Davis 16, M. Kempe 4, E. Wood 4, R. Harris 2, J. Parker 6