By Con Marshall Box Score
The Chadron State College women’s basketball team saw its season come to an end with a 61-41 loss its final game of the season Saturday evening at Black Hills State University in Spearfish.
The Eagles got off to a good start, making five of nine field goal shots, including a trio of 3-pointers, to take a 14-11 first quarter lead, but they managed just four points in the second period and trailed 24-18 at halftime before being outscored 37-23 in the second half.Â
Chadron State made just 14 of 48 field goal attempts for 29.2% for the game and added just one more shot from behind the arc after the opening quarter. Black Hills was 22 of 58 from the field for 37.9%. The hosts got 10 more field goal shots, largely because they had just 16 turnovers, nine fewer than the Eagles.
Kalla Bertram, a 5-9 junior from Winner, S.D., led Black Hills with 19 points while 6-foot grad student Ellie Moore added 10. Bertram had tallied 27 points Friday night when the Yellow Jackets defeated Colorado Christian 73-68.Â
Sophomore guard Liberty Line led the Eagles with 10 points, one more than junior forward Shay Powers, who was CSC’s leading rebounder with eight. Both Olivia Waufle and Awoti Akoi, the only senior on this year’s CSC team, added six points.
The Eagles finish the season 6-21 and 4-18 in the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference. The Yellow Jackets conclude the regular season at 17-9 and 14-8 in the RMAC. They have qualified for the conference playoffs this coming week. Â