Struggling Lady Frogs face rival Mustangs
By Danny Gillham
Sports Editor

Five games into the season, the Lady Frogs (2-3) are still looking for consistency in their game.

The team so far is averaging more than 20 turnovers a game and shooting 38 percent from the field.

“We’re just struggling offensively right now,” head coach Jeff Mittie said. “We are not doing a good job with ball movement, and with that comes poor shot selection. We just have to keep working on it to improve.”

The Lady Frogs take the court tonight in hopes of remedy their struggles against 3-1 SMU at 7 p.m. at Daniel-Meyer Coliseum.

Tuesday night looked like the team would break out of that slump, as it took a quick 16-0 lead on Wisconsin-Green Bay.

“Our goal was to start off the game on a run because we’ve been starting off kind of slow, and we accomplished that,” senior guard Candace Baldwin said.

The problem came when the Lady Frogs were not able to sustain the success for 40 minutes. The team went cold and tied a season-high with 26 turnovers in a 60-58 loss.

“We’ve had spurts where we are scoring, but then we go into scoring droughts for minutes at a time,” Mittie said.

Mittie also said improvement can only come with better ball movement, and said the team worked on different facets of its offense at Wednesday’s practice.

The Lady Frogs take on a Mustang squad that hasn’t played since a Nov. 30 loss to Texas A&M-Corpus Christi, its only loss of the season.

“They are the type of team that is going to get after you, and do different things,” Mittie said of SMU. “They will throw a zone at you, and matchup well with the high-low (post game). They are very well coached.”

Mittie also talked the scheduling of two non-conference games only a day apart.
“In the non-conference schedule you can be all over the boards,” he said. “You can be pretty different in the days that you play, because there are different factors that play in — like gym availability and working with the men’s team.”

Danny Gillham