The Women’s BC Basketball team took an unfortunate loss at home on Feb. 5th against West L.A. with an ultimate score of 55-46.
Within the first couple of minutes of the game, Zaila Marquez (2) scored the first point of the game from a rebound which was then quickly followed by West L.A. soon scoring the same way as well. Following both back-to-back points, the beginning of the game consisted of both teams playing back and forth to get their scores up. West L.A. maintaining their aggressiveness for the ball throughout the beginning of the game, ended up in the lead of the first quarter, leaving it at a score of 21-11.
Second quarter consisted of a similar pace from the previous first quarter. West L.A. continued with their determination to up their scores, and BC with their drive to gain back their points. West L.A. ended the 1st half still in the lead with scores of 35-18, but did not expect the turnaround of pace that would come in the next half from BC.
Second half is when BC flipped the switch and brought out their urgency to gain back their points. Marquez said, “Our energy, we just need to pick up our energy from the start instead of waiting till halftime to bring up our energy.”
Both the third and fourth quarter were the most intense moments of the game. With West L.A. fighting to stay on top and BC gaining those points that were needed to catch up to the opponents. Although BC really began to put up a fight in the last half, West L.A. took the win with a final score of 55-46.
Isabel Acevez (5) said that there are two main factors from this night that they can take to help them learn and be better prepared for their following games. Acevez stated, “I definitely think we need to communicate better… communicate, move, be more aggressive, I feel like we didn’t come out as aggressive as we usually do during the games.”
BC women’s basketball is now at an overall record of 7-16. The next home game will be on Wednesday Feb. 12 at 5pm.