Lady Mustangs Improvement Noticable

RICK PECKSPECIAL TO MCDONALD COUNTY PRESS Samantha Frazier gets fouled by Alexia Estrada before help from Mollie Milleson arrives during a girls' basketball scrimmage held Nov. 10 at McDonald County High School.
RICK PECKSPECIAL TO MCDONALD COUNTY PRESS Samantha Frazier gets fouled by Alexia Estrada before help from Mollie Milleson arrives during a girls' basketball scrimmage held Nov. 10 at McDonald County High School.

After a slow start during its first 10-minute session, the 2017-2018 McDonald County High School girls' basketball team showed signs of improvement over last year during its second 10 minutes of action.

Meagan Mills scored all four of the Black teams' points while Aspen Bowman had the only two for the Red team in the first session.

In the second session, Samantha Frazier and Alexia Estrada traded three-pointers to start the scrimmage before the Black team pulled away for a 16-9 win.

Frazier added two more baskets to go with her trey to lead the Black team with seven points. Sophomore Ragan Wilson added four points while rounding out the scoring were Mills with a three-pointer and Rita Santillan with two points.

Caitlynn Barton, Laney Wilson and Lily Allman had two points each to go with the trey by Estrada for the Red team.

"I thought we did pretty well," said coach Blake Short. "To be successful this year we are going to have to hit those mid-range jump shots we will get off kicks. When we did that we started scoring some points. We are going to have to do a lot of that as small as we are. It's going to be a lot of attacking and kicking it out or attacking and scoring. We haven't scrimmaged a ton, so I thought we did pretty well considering. I definitely thought we got better as the night went on. We saw some good things."

The Lady Mustangs travel to Carl Junction on Nov. 16 for a four-team jamboree before opening the season at the Carl Junction Tournament that begins on Nov. 27.

Sports on 11/16/2017