By Kyle Lehnick
The Lehman Lady Lobos took a 69-53 loss Tuesday at home against the Austin High Maroons
Lehman trailed by 10 points at 38-28 with 6:21 remaining in the third quarter, which marked their largest deficit in the game.
But the Lady Lobos then went on a ferocious 12-2 run to tie the game at 40-40 just before the end of the quarter.
“It was a hard loss, we tied it in the third quarter and all we had to do was play with heart, but their heart was stronger than ours,” Lady Lobo head coach Jamie Coy said.
Sophomore Makayla Coy made several impressive drives to the hoop, flipping the ball between defenders and finding the net during the third quarter. Coy led her team in scoring with 20 points while tallying two rebounds, a block and a steal.
Despite Coy’s efforts, Austin High had different plans before taking the bus home. The Maroons went on a scoring tear of their own, pushing the points margin to 17 points with 3:23 remaining.
The Lobos fired three point shots trying to lasso their deficit but couldn’t find a groove.
Lehman took 29 shots beyond the arc, a strategy discussed by Coach Coy after the game.
“We spread our game out more and look to attack the three point line a lot. Being more aggressive helps open driving lines because we truly are a driving team,” Coy said. “If opponents start packing the paint and we’re hitting threes they can’t do that, we’re looking to spread our game out.”
Lehman made 58 shot attempts from the floor, hitting 17 while Austin went 22 for 49.
The Lady Lobos are now 1-6 in district but look for the positives while correcting their flaws.
Coy said the team is looking to “build on every game,” and analyze what went right and wrong to make corrections.
“There are teams in our district that we are right there with us. We just have to look at taking them down one by one and making that our focal point, not emphasizing what we did wrong and more so what we did right,” Coy said. “Then capitalizing and making right happen more than wrong.”
The Lady Lobos will look to capitalize when they travel to play at Westlake Friday at 7, then at Bowie Tuesday at 7:30pm.
