On Jan. 28, the Bakersfield College women’s basketball team lost at Citrus 91-42 and the women’s record fell to 3-19 overall and 0-6 in Western State Conference play. The Renegades committed 42 turnovers. BC head coach Paula Dahl said, “We had 22 [turnovers] first half and 20 in the second half and they capitalized on pretty much everyone of them. They were a very athletic team and when we had bad pass, they picked it off and scored, that put them ahead very quickly, so we were never really able to get into much of a rhythm.”
On Jan. 24, the Renegade women lost to Glendale College 66-52. In the last half, Glendale pulled away when BC could not execute and did not score when needed. Dahl said, “We just lost momentum,” and added, “We need to take care of the ball.” Dahl said, “We got out of flow, it was the free throws that killed us.” With questionable foul calls during the game, Glendale went to the line 33 times in the game, with BC only going 15 times.
Renegades’ scoring leader of the game, Taquedia Brown, had 13 points and was 3-for-5 on free throws. BC teammate Kristin Alvidrez was 4-for-5 on free throws and the team was 9-15 overall at the free throw line.
On Jan. 21, the BC women’s basketball team lost to Santa Monica College, 79-57. The problems began early when the Renegade women fouled many times in the first half. Six minutes into first half, the score was 13-4 in favor of Santa Monica. At halftime, Santa Monica led 42-22.
BC sophomore guard Nicole Lopez led the Renegades with 3-pointers, as she went 5-9. Renegade teammate Lopez finished the game the team point leader, with 17 points.
BC freshman center Taquedia Brown fouled out of the game with 56.7 seconds left in the game. Brown was 2-for-5 in the game.
Santa Monica pulled away when their defense denied the Renegades a score late in the second half, with five minutes left to play, as Santa Monica made the score 76-50, only allowing seven more points to be added on in the second half.
Dahl said, “We’re just going to work and keep doing what we’ve been doing.” Dahl said about the team’s difficulties this season that the team has a lot of adversity and communication problems.
“You’ve got to communicate on different levels, and that’s the learning curve [that the team hasn’t learned yet],” she said.
The Renegade women’s defense struggled all night, with 32 turnovers. Dahl said about the season, “We just got to take care of the ball and stop the drive.”
Dahl said about the upcoming game against College of the Canyons, “Canyons is the best team in our conference so we’re getting prepared for them. We got to have confidence.my sophomores need to step up and take control of the basketball.”
The Renegade women travel to Canyons Feb. 4.