Garden City suffers second straight conference loss

Coffeyville, KS-Garden City was done in by the long ball. 

Kyleigh Ortiz drilled seven 3's, Coffeyville finished 15-of-24 from downtown (63 percent), and the Red Ravens raced past the Broncbusters, 80-59 Saturday afternoon at Nellis Hall. It was Garden City's fourth straight loss dropping them to 4-4 overall and 0-2 in conference play. 

Garden City's offense was held in check again. Antwain Scales' team shot just 34 percent from the field and was 2-of-9 on 3's. In fact, they missed their first eight shots of the game and 21 of their first 26. They fell down 10-0 and didn't get their first bucket until Jae'Mya Lyons hit a layup with 3:18 remaining in the first quarter. 

Meantime Coffeyville, which won its third straight game, couldn't miss. They scored the first 10 points of the game and were up 16-6 after one. They stretched it to 28-14 late in the second period following two free throws by Tetona Woods-Blackowl. Coffeyville was up, 35-18 at the intermission. 

That's when Ortiz got loose. 

Woods-Blackowl whistled a pass to the sharpshooter, who nailed a triple from the wing two minutes into the third. On the very next possession, the tandem hooked up for another long ball before Oriz buried a 26-footer to put Coffeyville up, 49-28. The freshman hit two more 3-pointers, finishing the period 5-of-6 from deep with 15 points. Her team was up, 63-40 at the end of the three. 

"We just didn't show up for this game," Scales said. "We left shooters open the entire day."

Ortiz finished with 27 points on 7-of-11 from downtown for Coffeyville, which led by as many 28 in the fourth quarter. Kennedy Roach chipped in 14 points, and Blackowl had 11 assists. 

Lyons, who did not play on Wednesday, had 28 points and nine boards in 28 minutes off the bench for Garden City. Dayshawna Cater added 10.