{"id":2200,"date":"2015-11-14T21:05:12","date_gmt":"2015-11-15T05:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wou.edu\/westernjournal\/?p=2200"},"modified":"2015-11-14T21:05:12","modified_gmt":"2015-11-15T05:05:12","slug":"womens-basketball-drops-opening-exhibition-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/womens-basketball-drops-opening-exhibition-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Women\u2019s basketball drops opening exhibition games"},"content":{"rendered":"<pre>By: Jamal Smith \r\nSports Editor<\/pre>\n<p>The women\u2019s basketball team opened up their exhibition schedule on Thursday, Nov. 5, 2015 on the road against Weber State University.  The Wolves were out-matched and lost to the Wildcats 42-71.<\/p>\n<p>Redshirt-junior Kelsey Henry (F) led the Wolves in scoring and finished with 14 points and 4 rebounds.  <\/p>\n<p>Senior Emily Howey (C), junior Jordan Mottershaw (G) and first year Kaylie Boschma (G) each finished with 6 points for the Wolves.<\/p>\n<p>Both teams shot 48 percent from the field, but the score discrepancy came down to turnovers and missed free-throws.<\/p>\n<p>WOU racked up a total of 31 turnovers which led to 41 Wildcat points, giving Weber State an extra 25 field goal opportunities.<\/p>\n<p>Two days later, the women\u2019s basketball team concluded their exhibition schedule in a tough fought 56-73 loss to Idaho State University Saturday Nov. 7, 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Sophomore Jasmine Miller (G\/F) led the way for the Wolves, finishing the game with 16 points while shooting 6-of-9 from the field.<br \/>\nMiller also tallied 8 rebounds. WOU\u2019s center Howey continued to play solid, tallying 10 points and 5 rebounds.  <\/p>\n<p>The Wolves shot a respectable 40 percent from the field, but just like in Thursday\u2019s game, they struggled from the free-throw line, converting just 12 of 27 from the charity stripe.  Idaho State also held the rebound advantage of 45-38, and outscored the Wolves 40-24 in the paint.<\/p>\n<p>It is worth noting that exhibition results do not impact the team\u2019s record.<\/p>\n<p>The Wolfpack look to rebound in Western\u2019s first regular season game on Friday, Nov. 13, 2015 at 4 p.m. against California State University Easy Bay in Hayward, California.   <\/p>\n<p>Their first home game is on Saturday Nov. 21, 2015 against California State University, Chico at 2 p.m. in the New P.E. Building. <\/p>\n<p>For tickets and game information, visit the ticket office during regular business hours in the New P.E. Building, or call 503-838\u20138917.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By: Jamal Smith Sports Editor The women\u2019s basketball team opened up their exhibition schedule on Thursday, Nov. 5, 2015 on the road against Weber State University. The Wolves were out-matched and lost to the Wildcats 42-71. Redshirt-junior Kelsey Henry (F) led the Wolves in scoring and finished with 14 points and 4 rebounds. Senior Emily [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":823,"featured_media":0,"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-2200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2200","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\/823"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2200\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}