{"id":2560,"date":"2016-01-14T19:48:12","date_gmt":"2016-01-15T03:48:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wou.edu\/westernjournal\/?p=2560"},"modified":"2016-01-14T19:48:12","modified_gmt":"2016-01-15T03:48:12","slug":"wolves-go-cold-from-the-floor-against-alaska-fairbanks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wolves-go-cold-from-the-floor-against-alaska-fairbanks\/","title":{"rendered":"Wolves go cold from the floor against Alaska Fairbanks"},"content":{"rendered":"<pre>By: Jamal Smith \r\nSports editor<\/pre>\n<p>The Western Oregon women\u2019s basketball team traveled to Alaska and inevitably fell to the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) 55-75 on Saturday, Jan. 7.<\/p>\n<p>The Wolves had two players score in double figures. Senior Michelle Bromagem (G) led the Wolves in scoring with 15 points on 5-10 shooting from the floor and went 3-6 from distance.  <\/p>\n<p>Sophomore Jasmine Miller (G\/F) tallied 10 points on a perfect shooting night, shooting 5-5 from the floor.<\/p>\n<p>Western got on the scoreboard first off with a Bromagem 3-pointer on the Wolves first possession of the game, but the Wolves went through a four minute scoring drought.  The Nanooks took advantage of the Wolves\u2019 cold stretch and scored 9 unanswered points. <\/p>\n<p>UAF\u2019s lead would balloon to a 16 point advantage with less than a minute remaining in the first quarter. The Wolves showed their never-say-die mentality and clawed their way back into the game, cutting Alaska\u2019s lead to single digits at 30-38 going into half time.<\/p>\n<p>In the third quarter, Western would again go cold from the floor.  To make matters worse, UAF dropped 20 points in the quarter, and the Nanooks took a 58-41 lead into the final quarter.<br \/>\nUAF\u2019s lead proved to be too much for the Wolves to come back from, and the fourth quarter played out like the rest of the game had. <\/p>\n<p>The Wolves had a tough shooting night and finished the game shooting 0.396 from the floor and 0.222 from beyond the arch.  Although Western outrebounded UAF 30-25, the Wolves committed 25 turnovers witch led to 27 UAF points.   <\/p>\n<p>The loss brings the Wolves overall record to 2-12 and 1-5 in GNAC conference play.<\/p>\n<p>Next up, the Wolves host Montana State University of Billings at 2 p.m. on Saturday, Jan. 16.  The Yellow Jackets currently sit in second place in the GNAC with an overall record of 9-5 and 5-1 in GNAC conference play.<\/p>\n<p>You can purchase tickets online or at the box office on game day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Western Oregon women\u2019s basketball team traveled to Alaska and inevitably fell to the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) 55-75 on Saturday, Jan. 7.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":825,"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-2560","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\/2560","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\/825"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2560\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}