The Brownwood Lady Lions’ nine-game win streak reached its conclusion at the hands of District 6-4A rival and third-ranked Glen Rose, 48-23, Tuesday night at Warren Gym.
“I’m proud of my team’s effort,” said Lady Lions head coach Heather Hohertz. “One of the goals was to come in here and not be intimidated compete and that’s what we did. You can tell they’ve been to the regional tournament and the state tournament the last few years because they found a way to score. That’s where we want to be. We got some good shots, we just didn’t make them. Defensively we put ourselves in a position to win, we just have to find a way to score when we need buckets.”
The Lady Lions (19-7, 1-1) fell victim to a 16-2 run by Glen Rose (24-2, 2-0) to end the first quarter and start the second as the visiting Lady Tigers built a 26-10 halftime advantage.
Brownwood converted just 9 of 38 field goals (24 percent), including only 2 of 14 from beyond the three-point arc, and attempted only four free throws, sinking three.
Trinity Roberts scored nine points for Brownwood trailed by eight from Hannah Deen, four from Icess Hall and two points from Nylah Hall.
The Lady Lions were also limited to 20 rebounds and only four on the offensive end, while committing 17 turnovers.
For Glen Rose, Brooklynn Peterson led the charge with 14 points trailed by Alexis Rynders with 13 and Lily Melton with 10 points.
Brownwood is back in action at 5:45 p.m. Friday at Stephenville.
“Stephenville’s going to play hard,” Hohertz said. “It doesn’t matter the records, any time we play it’s going to be a knock down, drag out. We just have to make sure we contain them on the defensive end and again find ways to score and use mismatches we have to our advantage.”