Lady Warriors lose against Vernon Parish teams

Lady Warriors lose against Vernon Parish teams
After squandering a lead at Pickering late in the fourth quarter, the Lady Warriors lost 52-51 against the Lady Devils and were held at bay at home by the Rosepine Lady Eagles 43-36.
"Our girls played well," head coach Ted Fontenot stated after the Pickering loss. "I thought we had a comfortable lead there in the fourth, then things didn't go right. They got in a rythm, and we got out of our rythm. When Sanaa came back in the fourth with about four minutes left, we just couldn't score for some reason. For three and a half quarters, I thought we hung in well."
KaMaesha St. Andre and Sanaa St. Andre each had 4 points in the first quarter that ended with Pickering scoring a basket to go up 15-12. KaMaesha St. Andre finished the game with 19 points, and Sanaa St. Andre finished the game with 12 points.
Treshunda Joseph in the second quarter picked up another Lady Warrior defensive rebound and finished it with the basket to tie the game at 15. Good ball movement leads to Setorie St. Andre getting the score to go up 19-17. Alexis Davis then connected from free throw range for two points from the field as a timeout was called on the court with 3:16 before halftime and with Oakdale leading 21-17.
Pickering went on a scoring run and made it a one point game from the charity stripe as the Lady Devils still trail 23-22. Pickering retook the lead in the waning moments of the first half and maintained it as the teams headed into the locker rooms at half.
Brianna Hargrove put her team back on top coming out the gate of the second half, and Kamaesha St. Andre extended the lead to three. The lead grew to six as Pickering called a timeout with 4:49 on the third quarter clock.
Oakdale was on the midst of a 15-2 scoring run, until Pickering got on a scoring run of its own as it trailed 41-36. After three quarters of play from Pickering, the Oakdale Lady Warriors led 43-36. Pickering from just inside the arc again made it a five point game to extend another scoring run. Coming out of a timeout with 4:21 remaining on the clock, Pickering got the steal and capitalized at the basket cutting the Warrior lead to one. Pickering then took the one point lead as Oakdale calls a timeout with 3:02 on the clock. The Lady Warriors could not regroup and went on to lose a tough one on the road Tuesday night.
Then on Friday night Rosepine went on a 10-2 scoring run to start the game as Oakdale called a timeout at the 2:24 mark of the first quarter. Setorie St. Andre scored on a jump shot, and the first quarter closed out with Oakdale trailing 14-6 and still looking flat from nights before.
Sanaa St. Andre went on a personal 6-0 run as the Warriors began to adjust to Rosepine's defensive scheme. Hargrove made it a one point game from the charity stripe as her team trailed 17-16 with under four minutes until the half. KaMaesha St. Andre gave her team the lead and was fouled as Rosepine calls a timeout with 3:35 before the half.
The Lady Warriors maintained the lead as the score was 22-19 going into the half. Sanaa St.
Andre got the steal and drove coast-to-coast for the score to go up 24-19 before Rosepine made it a one possession game from the free throw line.
Rosepine kept hovering around as a timeout was called on the court with Oakdale leading 28-16 with 3:24 left in the third. Oakdale was held to three points in the fourth quarter allowing Rosepine back in the game and earn the win.
"We shot a bunch of three pointers that didn't go in," Fontenot said after. "Then we missed a lot of shots that we usually make. We had three bad scoring quarters, but they played good defense on us. It was just one of those nights when the shots didn't fall."
The Lady Warriors have three district games remaining on the schedule. They host Bunkie on Senior Night January 31 then host Rapides February 7. The regular season wraps up February 9 at Many.