Staff picture by Ari Selvey
Gibbon-Fairfax-Winthrop’s Marti Jacobson goes up for a jumper throughout a nonconference ladies basketball sport towards Martin County West Monday at GFW High School in Winthrop.

WINTHROP — Gibbon-Fairfax-Winthrop was unable to beat Martin County West’s Emily Anderson and Ella Carlson, who every had 19 factors Monday night time, because the Mavericks downed the Thunderbirds 50-37 in a nonconference ladies basketball sport.

GFW was led by Marti Jacobson with 15 factors.

GFW discovered some success in transition, utilizing a full-court lure protection that created turnovers and gave the offense simple photographs, nevertheless it struggled within the half court docket, giving the ball away and lacking photographs.

“I think there’s a few players that didn’t shoot the ball that can shoot the ball,” GFW head coach Rich Busse stated. “I think we were a little apprehensive shooting it … Defensively, in a game like this, 50 points, you start to nitpick a few things defensively. A couple rotations where you gave them a pretty easy look where you felt like you should have taken that stuff away. It’s the finer points, the things that your first game reveals to you.”

Busse stated the brand new 35-second shot clock didn’t have an effect on the sport a lot, solely coming into play on possessions that have been already in a nasty place.

“I don’t know that it was a huge factor at all,” Busse stated. “There were a couple of possessions where it expired on us or we threw up a shot because of that, but those were maybe already possessions where things were derailing 10 seconds earlier. I was hoping we could force some [violations] defensively in our zone, making them be patient. I don’t know that it ever became a factor.”

MCW began off the sport up 8-3 earlier than happening a 10-2 run to take an 18-5 lead. GFW responded with a 9-0 run to climb again to 18-14, forcing an MCW timeout. GFW fought to place the deficit to 24-23 after a layup by Taylor Schafer, however MCW recovered and took a 30-25 lead at halftime.

MCW continued to construct on its lead, pulling away with a 45-36 margin earlier than the Thunderbirds took a timeout with 3:22 to play. Anderson hit a floater for the ultimate made shot of the sport to provide the Mavericks the 50-37 victory.

GFW (0-1) hosts Sleepy Eye St. Mary’s on Thursday.