Garden City rolls to its first conference win

Colby, KS-Garden City turned this one into a laugher very quick. 

Dayshawna Carter scored 17 points, Jae'Mya Lyons recorded a double-double, and the Broncbusters destroyed Colby, 66-39 Wednesday night at the Events Center. Garden City snapped a five-game losing streak, improving to 5-5 overall and 1-3 in the Jayhawk. 

"Regardless of the score, we have to get better," Head Coach, Antwain Scales said. "I am just not use to seeing this type of basketball from one of our teams."

Even so, the Broncbusters controlled this game from the start. They scored the first 33 points of the game, held Colby scoreless for nearly 16 minutes and forced 23 Trojan turnovers. Colby also missed its first 17 shots from the field. 

"Defensively, we played well in the first half," Scales added. "But we still have to get better."

Carter, who finished the night 8-of-18 from the field, drilled a jump shot 53 seconds into the game, Keyhana Turner rattled one home from 15 feet, and Stevi Yancy, who gave Scales 32 quality minutes off the bench, canned an open triple, spearheading the beginnings of a 33-0 run that saw Garden City connect on 7 of its first 10 shots from the floor. 

"Stevi was able to come in and really settle us down," Scales explained. Cayanna (Stanley) had two early turnovers, so I really thought Stevi did a nice job coming into the game early.

Garden City led 23-0 after one and scored the first 10 points of the second before Jayla Sample's five-foot banker finally put the Trojans on the board with four minutes remaining in the half. 

"We have to play a really good Dodge City team on Saturday, so we have to get back to work," Scales mentioned. 

The Broncbusters limited Colby, which was held scoreless in the first quarter for the second straight game, to just 13-of-52 shooting (25 percent).

Lyons scored 16 points and pulled down 11 rebounds in 26 minutes for Garden City. She and Carter were the only Broncbusters in double figures.