COLBY — The Barton Community College women’s basketball team led 35-21 at halftime and then went cold on Wednesday evening.
Colby went on runs of 10-0 and 7-0 to tie the game, but some clutch free-throw shooting in the final minute allowed Barton to edge the Lady Trojans 61-58.
“We pulled it together,” BCC head coach Darin Spence said. “We started off a little out of sync. We defended well and just couldn’t make a basket. The kids did a good job holding it together and then the baskets began to fall.
“In the second half, we just kind of stopped. Then the turnovers came, and we had a rough stretch. We made free throws down the stretch and got a good win.”
Colby (6-15, 2-5) knotted the game at 52 on a Shantydra Arnold 3-pointer with less than five minutes remaining.
The two teams traded one-point leads for the next four minutes before Raven Anderson hit a layup off a Netanya Jackson assist to give Barton a 57-56 lead with 29.3 seconds remaining.
Devan Boeger, a sophomore guard from Great Bend, and Dionne Harris, a sophomore forward, each hit free throws in the final 15 seconds to keep Barton ahead by three points.
Barton, which is 13-7 overall, 3-3 in the Kansas Jayhawk Community College Conference Western Division, was led by Shea Shoemaker, who hit 2 of 3 from 3-point range and finished with 10 of her 13 points in the first half.
“Shea had a solid game and ended up with 13 points,” Spence said. “She made five free throws, 5 of 6, and that helped her get her rhythm going. She fell and came up holding her arm funny. She may have tweeked her arm injury, so we’ll need to watch that, I think.”
— Kevin Price
JUNIOR COLLEGE BASKETBALL
Kansas Jayhawk Community
College Conference
Western Division
At Colby
Wednesday
WOMEN
Barton 61, Colby 58
BARTON (13-7, 3-3)
Dionne Harris 4-6 5-6 13, Shea Shoemaker 3-7 5-6 13, Netanya Jackson 3-4 2-3 8, Erin Copeland 2-9 0-1 6, Devan Boeger 1-4 2-2 5, Blair Bloomfield 2-7 0-0 4, Raven Anderson 2-7 0-0 4, Taschell Phillips 2-7 0-0 4, Ta’Kerra Williams 2-3 0-0 4. Totals 21-54 14-18 61.
COLBY (6-15, 2-5)
Marie McAbee 7-10 3-4 17, Liga Vente 4-6 5-6 13, Cheyenne Eisenhour 4-10 3-3 11, Morgan Rickwartz 2-8 0-0 6, Shantydra Arnold 2-5 0-0 5, Katarina Popovic 1-5 0-0 2, Emily Torson 1-2 0-0 2, Brooke Bursiek 0-8 2-2 2, Chelsea Jonte 0-2 0-0 0. Totals 21-56 13-15 58.
Halftime — Barton 35, Colby 21. Three-point goals — Barton 5-18 (Copeland 2-8, Shoemaker 2-5, Boeger 1-4, Anderson 0-1); Colby 3-15 (Rickwartz 2-5, Arnold 1-1, Eisenhour 0-4, Torson 0-1, Bursiek 0-3, Jonte 0-1). Fouled out — Colby, Rickwartz. Rebounds — Barton 38 (Harris 5); Colby 33 (Vente 6). Assists — Barton 19 (Shoemaker 6); Colby 11 (Eisenhour 4). Total fouls — Barton 14, Colby 19. A — 615
