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Sports

Lady Cougars gored by Horned Frogs at home

Houston loses its second Conference USA contest in a game where score see-sawed

By Arica Jefferson
The Daily Cougar

The Lady Cougars faced their second loss in conference play Sunday in a 63-55 bout against Conference USA rival Texas Christian. 

From the beginning, the Lady Horned Frogs came on the floor ready to play with a quick 11-3 lead. TCU had the energy and momentum on their side.

Senior center KiKi Harris started off the game strong with eight points and seven rebounds in the first five and a half minutes of the game.

TCU's big girl, Sandora Irvin was held scoreless in the first half, but the Lady Horned Frogs found a different way to score. Sophomore guard Ashley Davis had 17 points in the first half. TCU was 7-9 from the three-point line in the first half.

Even with the TCU guards on a scoring spree, the Lady Cougars senior forward, Daphne Andre kept the ladies afloat, with Sancho Lyttle only playing 8 minutes in the first half, due to fouls. 

The Lady Cougars regained the momentum with 5:34 left in the half after a Jasmine Moore three-pointer then an Andre rebound and put back. The last three minutes of the half, UH and TCU played a three-pointer for three-pointer game that TCU won, but it was the Overstreet rebound from her own shot that allowed the Lady Cougars to get one last chance before the half was over. With four seconds left Overstreet put up a floater on drive which made the score 31-30.

The Overstreet basket and Andre's 12 points put the ladies at a one point deficit going into the half.

Andre said that since Lyttle was being double- and triple-teamed, she knew that other players had to step up, and it just so happened to be her.

"I had to step up and play. We know (Lyttle) is our number one offense key player on our team and everybody knew we had to step up," Andre said.

UH came out into the second half blazing with shots by Harris, Lyttle, who scored her first field goal of the game at 18:02 in the first half, and junior forward Emily Fryters.

The score went back and forth with six lead changes in the second half alone. The Lady Cougars perimeter did its part by not allowing a three-point shot until there was only 7:38 left in the game, but it was Irvin, who scored 15 points in the half and for the game, that gave TCU that extra push.

The ladies played hard to the end. Harris made a put-back with four seconds on the clock, but by this time TCU had already clinched the win. 

Lady Cougar head coach Joe Curl gave credit to TCU for being a good basketball team, but said he was not going to dwell on this loss.

"The best team won the game today and our challenge is to just get better and retake it back when we go there," Curl said.

The Lady Cougars take go to Texas A&M-Corpus Christi on Tuesday, and they return to Hofheinz Pavilion on Friday to host Saint Louis at 7 p.m.
 

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