Southwestern College Collegian

Issue date: 2/13/08 Section: Sports

Ashley Holloway/Collegian photographerKara Beal, senior guard, drives past a Sterling College player in the game Saturday evening. The women lost 68-61. Beal had nine points and four rebounds in a game that all but crushed the Lady Builders' chance of becoming regular season conference champions. With four games left in regular season, they are currently ranked second in the Kansas Collegiate Athletic Conference with a record of 11-3 and are two wins ahead of third-ranked Tabor College. The women will play at Tabor at 6 p.m. tomorrow and will then travel to Lindsborg to play Bethany at 5 p.m. on Saturday. [Click to enlarge]

At the end of the season, each game may mean the difference between first and second place. With the Kansas Collegiate Athletic
Conference being in such a tight race, the Lady Builders' most recent loss was all but heartbreaking.
The women are ranked second
in the KCAC with a record of 11-3 behind Sterling College,
who has a record of 13-1. They're looking for two wins on the road this week when they play third-ranked Tabor tomorrow
and travel to Lindsborg on Saturday to play the sixth-ranked Bethany Swedes.
The Lady Builders won an exciting game at Bethel College on Tuesday, taking the game to double overtime and coming
away with an 82-76 victory, but ended up losing on Saturday to first-ranked Sterling College 68-61.
"We fought, and it was a close game," Dave Denly, head women's basketball coach said. "We struggled from the free throw line, which really costs you in games like that. The ladies
are disappointed and I'm disappointed, but the key now for us is to regroup."

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