By Adam Knoll
Sports Correspondent
The Lady Whippets basketball team is off to a phenomenal start to the 2014 season. In addition to remaining undefeated, the team has focused on increasing its intensity throughout entire games and it shows.
Whitewater put its recent game against Evansville on ice by using the defense to create offense. Before the first quarter was over, Whitewater held a 26-2 lead. For the record, Evansville managed just more than 30 points all game during a 79-33 drubbing by the Whippets who are now 8-0.
Myriama Smith-Traore led the team with 17 points, 10 of them in the first quarter. Sarah Schumacher added 16 against Evansville.
“Both played quite an impressive game, dominating the paint, but what was even more impressive was how scrappy and intense the girls played all night long as a team,” head coach Judy Harms said.
“Stepping up with intensity has been a big team goal the last two games, and it certainly showed. We need to continue that performance and mentality the entire season now,” Harms added.
It’s been a total team effort for Whitewater with nearly every player on the Whippets bench adding to the final score and only three players scoring less than four points.
Evansville only scored more than eight points in one quarter against the stout, Whitewater defense.
