{"id":2671,"date":"2016-01-21T18:42:09","date_gmt":"2016-01-22T02:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wou.edu\/westernjournal\/?p=2671"},"modified":"2016-01-21T18:46:42","modified_gmt":"2016-01-22T02:46:42","slug":"wolves-stung-by-montana-state-yellow-jackets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wolves-stung-by-montana-state-yellow-jackets\/","title":{"rendered":"Wolves stung by Montana State Yellow Jackets"},"content":{"rendered":"<pre>By: Amanda Clarke \r\nStaff Writer<\/pre>\n<p>The Western Oregon women&#8217;s basketball team fell at home to the Montana State University of Billings (MSUB) Yellow Jackets 37-60 on Saturday, Jan. 16.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe improvement in our post play has opened things up a bit for us on the outside and given us more opportunities to score,\u201d said head coach Holly Howard-Carpenter. \u201cOverall we need to be more consistent with the improvements we&#8217;ve made in order to build and be successful.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sophomore Sydney Azorr (G) led the Wolves in scoring with 7 points and also posted 3 assists and 5 rebounds. Freshman Ali Nelke (G\/F), junior Jazmin Bembry (G), and junior Launia Davis (G) each tallied 4 points.  <\/p>\n<p>Western had trouble shooting the ball in the first quarter and MSUB took advantage by scoring 12 unanswered points to take a 23-10 lead into the second quarter.<\/p>\n<p>In the second quarter the Wolves had their toughest shooting quarter of the season, adding only 5 points in a 10 minute span. The first half ended with the Yellow Jackets up 37-15.<\/p>\n<p>MSUB\u2019s lead proved to be too much for the Wolves to come back from. However, the Wolves refused to give up.  Bembry hit a 3-pointer with just one second remaining in the game to bring the final score to 37-60. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI&#8217;ve seen several improvements over the course of the season,\u201d added Howard-Carpenter. \u201cWe&#8217;ve learned to play better as a team and are understanding that it takes all of us, every day, to be competitive.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After a tough shooting night where nothing seemed to go in the Wolves\u2019 favor, Western finished the game shooting 30 percent from the floor on 15-50 shooting.    <\/p>\n<p>The loss brings the Wolves\u2019 overall record to 3-13 and 2-6 in GNAC conference play.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRegardless of our opponent or whether we are on the road or at home, we need the same focused effort every night.  There is plenty of season left and I expect us to continue improving and working hard,\u201d said Howard-Carpenter.<\/p>\n<p>Up next, Western will host Northwest Nazarene University on Saturday, Jan. 23, at 5:15 p.m. in the New P.E. Building. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Western Oregon women&#8217;s basketball team fell at home to the Montana State University of Billings (MSUB) Yellow Jackets 37-60 on Saturday, Jan. 16.<\/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-2671","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\/2671","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=2671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2671\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}