Laramie County women top MCC women 57-53 at home

The McCook Community College women dropped a 57-53 decision at home Saturday against Laramie County Community College.

"We'll learn from this, it's early but it's a tough one to take, we fought back and got a tie but just couldn't complete it," said MCC Coach Brandon Pritchett.

After being up by eight points 1:16 into the third quarter, Pritchett said it was the MCC defense that let up just enough to give the Golden Eagles the chances they needed.

Monique Marcetic-Vaotangi went four-for-four from the 3-point line in the second half and scored 17 points to lead the Golden Eagles. After making one of three 3-pointers in the first half, LCCC went six of nine (66.7 percent in the second half.

"We just didn't execute the game plan as far as our guarding, we left girls open." Pritchett said. "That's what we had up on the board before the game 'little details are vital and make big things happen.'"

The coach said his team didn't' do the little things to allow big things to happen and the home team's offensive execution was lacking.

MCC shot just 32.6 percent from the field, made just one of 11 shots from the 3-point line

"We have to make some more shots. The girls have to be confident when they shoot it," Pritchett said. "We need to get the right shots, and not force them just shoot better within our offense."

On Saturday, much of the offense came from the free-throw line where MCC scored 24 points on 27 shots.

"We did a good job of getting to the free-throw line," Pritchett said.

MCC sophomore Maite Lara Garcia (Sant Joan Despi, Spain) led all scorers with 22 points, which included a 12-for-13 performance from the free-throw line. MCC was seven-for-seven in the first half and 17 of 20 in the second half and 88.9 percent from the line for the game.

Sophomore Vanessa Jurewicz (Stockholm, Sweden), scored eight points and sophomore Valentina Monzo (Santiago, Chile) scored six points. Sophomore Carla Torrubia Cano (Melilla, Spain) led MCC with eight rebounds.

"It's early in the season, but we have to be better with execution and locking in and we got in foul trouble and some injury issues so other girls just have to step up," Pritchett said. "Our bench has to be better."

MCC goes to 1-1 on the season and will host Cloud County Community College Tuesday at 5:30 p.m. at the Peter and Dolores Graff Events Center. This weekend the MCC women will host the MCC Classic taking on Air Force Prep Friday at 7:30 p.m. and Colby Community College Saturday at 3 p.m.