{"id":5972,"date":"2016-03-11T16:09:22","date_gmt":"2016-03-12T00:09:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/athletics\/?p=5972"},"modified":"2016-03-11T16:09:22","modified_gmt":"2016-03-12T00:09:22","slug":"season-ends-for-bc-womens-basketball-at-nwac-tourney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/athletics\/2016\/03\/11\/season-ends-for-bc-womens-basketball-at-nwac-tourney\/","title":{"rendered":"Season ends for BC women\u2019s basketball at NWAC Tourney"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A successful season that saw the BC women\u2019s basketball team win 23 games and post a second-place finish in the North Region came to an end Friday with a <a href=\"http:\/\/nwacsports.org\/basketball\/box_score-4Q.php?g=4899&amp;sport=wbasketball&amp;home=CenC&amp;visitor=BCC\" target=\"_blank\">55-46 loss to Centralia<\/a> in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nwacsports.org\/basketball\/championship\/2015-16\/Women_Basketball_Bracket-March10-4.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">consolation semifinals<\/a> of the NWAC tournament.<\/p>\n<p>The Bulldogs (23-7) led 23-21 at halftime, but the Trailblazers rallied to take a 38-35 lead entering the final quarter. Three BC turnovers in the opening minutes of the fourth quarter helped Centralia push the lead to 43-35 with 6:65 remaining.<\/p>\n<p>The Bulldogs did not score in the final period until Savannah Reid banked in a 3-pointer with 6:04 left to cut the lead to 43-38. Sophomore guard Mikayla Jones turned a steal into a breakaway layup to keep BC within two possessions at 47-42 with 2:42 left.<\/p>\n<p>A Centralia turnover on the ensuing possession gave the Bulldogs the opportunity to further cut the lead, but BC could not get a shot off in time and was called for a shot-clock violation.<\/p>\n<p>The Bulldogs were forced to foul over the final 1:38 and Centralia put the game away with its final eight points from the free-throw line.<\/p>\n<p>Bellevue made just 16 of 65 shots for 25 percent, including 2-of-19 from three-point range. Jones led the Bulldogs with 19 points, but was just 5-of-22 from the field, including 1-of-8 from beyond the arc. She was 8-of-8 from the free-throw line. Shelby Kassuba added 8 points and a team-high 10 rebounds.<\/p>\n<p>Monty Cooper had 19 points and Susan Kenney 17 for Centralia (24-8), the No. 2 seed in the West Region.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A successful season that saw the BC women\u2019s basketball team win 23 games and post a second-place finish in the North Region came to an end Friday with a 55-46 loss to Centralia in the consolation semifinals of the NWAC tournament. The Bulldogs (23-7) led 23-21 at halftime, but the Trailblazers rallied to take a <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/athletics\/2016\/03\/11\/season-ends-for-bc-womens-basketball-at-nwac-tourney\/\">...more about Season ends for BC women\u2019s basketball at NWAC Tourney<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":310,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[32,6,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured","category-news","category-womens-basketball"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/310"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5972"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5973,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5972\/revisions\/5973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}