{"id":11687,"date":"2020-01-16T22:24:30","date_gmt":"2020-01-17T06:24:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/?p=11687"},"modified":"2020-01-16T22:24:30","modified_gmt":"2020-01-17T06:24:30","slug":"smashing-barriers-womens-basketball-topple-the-yellowjackets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/smashing-barriers-womens-basketball-topple-the-yellowjackets\/","title":{"rendered":"Smashing barriers, Women\u2019s Basketball topple the Yellowjackets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>Hannah Greene\u00a0<\/strong> | Sports Editor<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Women\u2019s Basketball played in their sixth GNAC conference game on Saturday, Jan. 11 against the Montana State University Billings Yellowjackets.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">At 2 p.m. the start of the first quarter began and the Wolves gained the lead. Not long after, the Wolves hit a roadblock and allowed the Yellowjackets to come back.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Later, the Wolves thrashed through their stoppage and scored enough points to put them back on top.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Standout player, Shariah Green, a senior forward and center, came off the bench to add rebounds and finished in double figures \u2014 making this her collegiate best in scoring.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This game proved to be a highlight for the Wolves\u2019 defense, which has struggled in the past.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Two other Wolves that made differences on the court were; Amber Winkler, a sophomore forward, and Keyonna Jones, a junior guard. The Wolves were able to work together as a team and therefore bring home a win.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The final quarter showed for the offense and defense putting in work for each other, and remained consistent to pull through until the end. Wolves took home the dough, and won 64-56.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Women\u2019s Basketball leave home to challenge Saint Martin\u2019s University on Thursday, Jan. 16.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Their next home game will be Thursday, Jan. 23 at 5:15 p.m.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Contact the author at <a href=\"mailto:hgreene18@wou.edu\">hgreene18@wou.edu<\/a><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hannah Greene\u00a0 | Sports Editor Women\u2019s Basketball played in their sixth GNAC conference game on Saturday, Jan. 11 against the Montana State University Billings Yellowjackets.\u00a0 At 2 p.m. the start of the first quarter began and the Wolves gained the lead. Not long after, the Wolves hit a roadblock and allowed the Yellowjackets to come [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1094,"featured_media":10024,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"modified_by":"The Western Howl","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1094"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11687\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}