3C Girls go to Glasgow

The Girls 3C District Tournament is set as the North Country Mavericks and the Dodson Lady Coyotes see themselves on the same side of the 2020 bracket.

The District Tournament is scheduled to start in Glasgow on Thursday, February 20. The North Country Lady Mavericks grabbed the second spot in 3C, trailing only Scobey in the divisional standing. Both North Country and Scobey earned bye weeks in the tournament.

Dodson will have to face the Nashua Lady Porcupines in the opening round of the District Tournament on Thursday at 3:30 p.m.

Dodson defeated Nashua 61-22 on Saturday, January 4, and 48-44 on Saturday, February 1.

If the Lady Coyotes can make it past Nashua, the team will clash with North Country in game four of the tournament, a match scheduled for Friday, February 21, at 4:30 p.m.

Only three teams will qualify for the Eastern C Divisional Tournament to be held in Glasgow starting on Wednesday, February 26.

Last weekend, the Lady Mavericks and Lady Coyotes both defeated the Lustre Lady Lions and Frazer Lady BearCubs.

The Lady Mavericks played suffocating defense blowing Lustre Christian out 76-13 last Friday, and then Frazer 59-19 on Saturday.

In North Country's win over Lustre, the team was led by Kaitlyn McColly who had 23 points, eight rebounds, and three assists. Kia Wasson had 23 points, three rebounds, two assists, and three steals. Jaycee Erickson had 13 points, 11 assists and four rebounds. Elise Strommen, who was honored for Senior Night, scored 11 points, had four rebounds, and four steals. Mattea McColly had eight points and four rebounds.

"We shot the ball extremely well as a team against Lustre," North Country Head Coach Amber Erickson said. "We made all of our shots from the free throw line, only had three turnovers and we racked up 25 assists as a team."

In North Country's win over Frazer, the team was led by Wasson who had 15 points. McColly scored 14 points, Jaydyn Erickson had nine points, and Jayc. Erickson had seven points.

"We came out strong and had balanced scoring in all four quarters against Lustre," Coach Erickson said. "Defensively we did a nice job limiting their best scorers to no easy looks."

Coach Erickson praised her team on a hard fought weekend and the team ended the regular season on a strong note.

"We had a strong weekend offensively and our turnovers have been down these past couple weeks," Coach Erickson said. "We are excited to be heading into tournaments. The girls have been working and fine tuning things especially on the offensive end. We know that being able to consistently score every quarter is going to be a big factor in tournament games."

The Lady Coyotes defeated Frazer 55-42 last Friday, and then defeated Lustre Christian 34-29 on Saturday.

In Dodson's win over Frazer, the Lady Coyotes were led by Melony Fetter who scored 27 points. Christina Jaynes had 16 points.

In the Lady Coyotes victory over Lustre Christian, the team was led by Tiffany Cliff who had 14 points. Kataya KillEagle added seven points.