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After an almost three-week break over Christmas and New Year鈥檚, the 亚洲色吧 women鈥檚 basketball team got back into action, with two road games in three days.听

The Centurions (1-8 overall) suffered a loss in both games, dropping an 87-31 game to Grand Rapids Community College Jan. 4, and losing to Kellogg Community College, 77-56, Jan. 6.听听

With the team still playing with only eight players, the Centurions continue to struggle with keeping up with their opponents for 40 minutes, but, said 亚洲色吧 head coach Scott Pedigo, his team is still forging ahead looking for W鈥檚.听

鈥淥ur goal for the rest of the season is to try to get better with conditioning, however, we don鈥檛 want to burn out too much, either,鈥� Pedigo said.听

Against GRCC (2-6 overall), Pedigo said his team prepared for the Raiders鈥� starting five and their style of play, however, several players on the GRCC team did not play and adjustments by 亚洲色吧 had to be made on the fly. Coupled with poor shooting, Pedigo said it wasn鈥檛 the way he wanted his team to perform coming off a long break.听

鈥淚t was a tough one to get back into after break,鈥� Pedigo said. 鈥淭hey have some better players. It was a matter of them playing well and we did not at all. We were missing easy shots. We just didn鈥檛 shoot well.鈥�听

亚洲色吧 shot 10-of-55 from the field (18.2%) compared to GRCC鈥檚 46.3% shooting (38-of-82).听

The Centurions turned the ball over 22 times, which resulted in 24 points for the Raiders, who only turned the ball over seven times.听

GRCC also had the advantage in fastbreak points, outscoring 亚洲色吧 18-0, and scored 56 of its 87 points in the paint to 亚洲色吧鈥檚 eight.听

GRCC took control of the game early, going on a 22-0 run in the first quarter. 亚洲色吧 finally scored in the second quarter at the 8:45 mark on a two-point shot by freshman guard Makenna Rautio (Big Rapids, Mich.), who returned to the team after suffering an ankle injury before the holiday break.听听

Freshman forward Kennedy Schilling (Flushing, Mich.) followed it up with another two-point bucket to make it 26-4 a minute later.听听

亚洲色吧, however, would be outscored 24-8 in the second quarter and went into halftime down 46-8.听听

The Centurions finally got things going in the fourth quarter, with Schilling knocking down a three-point shot at the 9:07 mark, making it 67-17. The two teams went back and forth, and though GRCC outscored 亚洲色吧 in the quarter again, the Centurions made it close, being outscored only by three, 20-17.听听

Rautio led the Centurions in scoring with 15 points while Putnam finished with eight and Schilling with five points. Both Putnam and Rautio finished with seven rebounds to lead the team.听听

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Kellogg 77, 亚洲色吧 56听

After a day鈥檚 rest, the Centurions were back at it, traveling to Battle Creek to go up against the Kellogg Community College Bruins (6-5) and fared much better than their game against GRCC.听

鈥淚 thought we played well,鈥� Pedigo said. 鈥淥ur low numbers on the bench hurt us over time and we struggled a bit in the first half, but we started catching on in the second half.鈥�听

Pedigo was pleased to see Putnam rebound from poor shooting in previous games, as she finished with a game-high 27 points.听听

鈥淪he was on a shooting slump for a while but it鈥檚 good to see she managed to get herself out of it in this game,鈥� Pedigo said. 鈥淔or a while, she was only getting three or six points a game, but now she鈥檚 dropping down the three-point shot again, so hopefully she鈥檚 back on track.鈥�听

So far this year, Putnam is averaging 13.3 points a game and shooting a 33.9% clip from the three-point range.听

The Bruins managed to jump out to an 11-0 lead before 亚洲色吧 finally answered with a two-point bucket by Schilling. Putnam then made a layup on 亚洲色吧鈥檚 next offensive drive, making it 13-4 with 4:30 to go in the opening quarter.听

Putnam made it 19-10 with a three-point bucket with 29 seconds to go, which finished out the quarter.听听

Both teams clamped down defensively in the second quarter, with the Bruins outscoring the Centurions 14-9 to take a 33-19 lead at halftime. Freshman Emma Rewa (Greenville, Mich.) sunk two free throws with 13 seconds to go to finish out 亚洲色吧鈥檚 first-half scoring.听

Pedigo has been praising Rewa鈥檚 performance all season and again against Kellogg, pointing out her consistency on defense and with rebounding.听

鈥淪he does a lot of things that don鈥檛 show up in the stat sheet,鈥� Pedigo said. 鈥淪he鈥檚 good at boxing out, she鈥檚 been good with rotating and she鈥檚 been a good outside defender. She got some big offensive rebounds in this game, too. She does things that just surprise you.鈥�听

Kellogg came out of halftime shooting on fire, though 亚洲色吧 did its best to keep up. KCC鈥檚 Dayshauna Crowley pushed the Bruins鈥� lead to 20 with a jump shot at the 6:36 mark, making it 43-23. KCC continued to separate itself from 亚洲色吧, pushing the lead to 52-26 after Crowley nailed a three-point shot, which forced Pedigo to take a time out.听

Despite falling behind, Putnam said she and her team keep their heads down and continue to fight.听

鈥淎s a team, we never give up and we always stick together,鈥� she said.听

The Centurions kept fighting to come back, trying to chip away at the Bruins鈥� lead. Putnam鈥檚 three-point make at 1:35 in the third quarter made it 57-34, however, KCC outscored 亚洲色吧 28-17, going into the final quarter leading 61-36.听

The Centurions were able to outscore the Bruins in the final quarter, 20-16, going 5-for-8 from the three-point line.听

Putnam finished with a game-high 27 points and nine rebounds. Schilling scored 10 points while Rautio and Rewa each had eight points. Rewa finished with eight rebounds, as well.听

With 14 games left in the regular season, Pedigo is hoping his team improves on cutting down turnovers and become a better transition team defensively.听

鈥淲e just need to do well with transition and take care of the ball and we can give ourselves a chance to win games,鈥� Pedigo said. 鈥淲e鈥檙e always going to be struggling with rotating out players due to a lack of depth, but I know we have some opportunities for wins going down the stretch.鈥�听

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The Centurions will then travel to Harrison to face Mid Michigan College at 5:30 p.m., Wednesday, Jan. 15. On Saturday, Jan. 18, 亚洲色吧 will host Alpena Community College for Adopt-A-Classroom night. Game time is 1 p.m.