{"id":11644,"date":"2020-01-11T13:25:20","date_gmt":"2020-01-11T21:25:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/?p=11644"},"modified":"2020-01-11T13:25:20","modified_gmt":"2020-01-11T21:25:20","slug":"the-clan-tames-the-wolves-during-conference-womens-basketball-lose-to-canadian-neighbors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/the-clan-tames-the-wolves-during-conference-womens-basketball-lose-to-canadian-neighbors\/","title":{"rendered":"The Clan tames the Wolves During Conference, Women\u2019s Basketball lose to Canadian neighbors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span><strong>Hannah Greene\u00a0<\/strong> | Sports Editor<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Western Women\u2019s Basketball started the new year with GNAC conference games. On Jan. 2 the Wolves took on the Western Washington Vikings, and brought home a win \u2014 beating them 73-70 in overtime.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Last Saturday the Wolves played against our Canadian neighbor, Simon Fraser University Clan. Unfortunately, a \u201cdub\u201d was not taken.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Though the Wolves suffered a GNAC loss, their play throughout the first quarter showed for strength and strong offense.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Heading into the third quarter, the Wolves were up by five points, not ahead enough to keep the lead \u2013 but this changed once the Wolves were able to gain five more points, to put them at 10 points more than the Clan.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The Wolves stayed strong and held their lead into the final quarter where they were met with a locomotive offense \u2014 the Clan challenged every play and took advantage of every mistake.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The Clan was able to put up 27 points, outscoring the Wolves by 15 points.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The Wolves weren\u2019t done yet, multiple players took it upon themselves to try and regain the lead, among them, Shariah Green who scored 17 points and Amber Winkler who scored 14 points.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Though the Wolves inched back, it wasn\u2019t enough to overthrow the Clan. 25 turnovers caused great effect to the Wolves, the most turnovers this season and since Feb. of last year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The fourth quarter ended, leaving the Clan ahead 64-57.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Next, the Wolves face off against Concordia University, away at 7 p.m. on Jan. 7. Their next home game is Saturday, Jan. 11 at 2 p.m.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Contact the author at <a href=\"mailto:hgreene18@wou.edu\">hgreene18@wou.edu<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hannah Greene\u00a0 | Sports Editor Western Women\u2019s Basketball started the new year with GNAC conference games. On Jan. 2 the Wolves took on the Western Washington Vikings, and brought home a win \u2014 beating them 73-70 in overtime. Last Saturday the Wolves played against our Canadian neighbor, Simon Fraser University Clan. Unfortunately, a \u201cdub\u201d was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1094,"featured_media":10277,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"modified_by":"The Western Howl","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1094"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11644\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}