The Bakersfield College women’s basketball team started off its season with a win at College of the Sequoias and then two more victories at the Crossover Tournament at BC on Nov. 10-11.

According to BC women’s basketball coach Paula Dahl, there wasn’t a champion and usually four teams compete, but due to a scheduling problem more teams showed up.

BC beat Allan Hancock 101-50 and Los Angeles Trade-Tech College 76-69.

“I thought we did awesome in the first game, but we had a tough night against LATTC. We showed some character to get that win,” said Dahl.

“It was a total team effort against Allan Hancock, because the last nine minutes the starters didn’t even play,” she said. “I thought the bench did amazing, and we really focused on shutting down [Camille Zumbro] because she scored 37 points in her last game.” BC held Zumbro to nine points.

“We just needed to consistently run against LATTC because whenever we ran we did fine, but we were also missing a lot of inside shots,” Dahl said.

“I was impressed with our depth and that we didn’t give up.”

Dahl commented on how starting sophomore forward Gabi Morales played.

“I think she struggled finishing layups because she got hit in the chest, but she’s a great kid and she worked hard,” she said.

Morales, who had double-doubles in both games including a 28-point and 13- rebound performance against LATTC, gave her thoughts on how the team played.

“We did really good against Allan Hancock and it was a good team effort, but I think we had a test against LATTC because they were more athletic, and we were tired from last night,” Morales said. “That game showed us we needed to work on our defense and running our offense better.”

She added that everyone feeds off each other and when someone does something good, everyone tries to do the same.

“I think I’m in a lot better shape and can play faster, but I think I still need to work on finishing layups and crashing the boards,” she said.

Emilee Parks, starting freshmen guard, commented on the team’s performance.

“I think we did pretty well, we played as a team and worked really hard. I still think that we need to work on rebounding and boxing out though,” she said.

The game was at 64-61 with three minutes and 33 seconds left when Toni McLin of LATTC was given a technical foul. After that BC was able to go on a nice run to finish the game.

“I think it motivated all of us to push for the win,” said Morales.

The Renegades had their first game at the College of the Sequoias on Nov. 8 and they won 73-63.

They had big contributions from Morales, who had 13 points and nine rebounds, and Jausecca Cockeral with 17 points, nine assists and eight rebounds.

BC’s next home game is scheduled on Nov. 18 against Reedley College.