By Jackson Faerber, The Chronicle Sports Writer

It was a rough afternoon for the women's basketball team Feb. 6 as they lost to the Waubonsee Valley Chiefs by a score of 84-34.

The loss brought the Lancer's record to an unfortunate 1-21, with only a handful of games that remained.

The Lancers struggled right out of the gates, and the Chiefs took full advantage of the Lancers slow start by dropping 25 points in the first quarter.

"Playing a team like that, that is so high intensity and quick, we get down on ourselves early and we get tired and it's hard to get out of that," Forward Kristen O' Brien said. "We're mentally down and physically down, we needed something to spur us on but it never really happened."

Unfortunately, this spur of momentum did happen for the Waubonsee Chiefs as their defense suffocated much of the CLC action on the court.

"We panicked a little bit under their pressure," Head Coach Kyle Brokmeier said. "They started to press us and that caused us to make some careless mistakes."

Mental and physical fatigue combined with that very aggressive Chiefs defense caused the Lancers to turn the ball over 31 times.

The Chiefs certainly relished those opportunities as they turned those 31 turnovers into 38 points.

A possible cause of this fatigue may be due to the fact that Lancers only have a six women roster.

Add into account the frequency of games in the closing weeks of the season, and it is evident that the Lancers may not have been physically and mentally ready for this contest.

When the Lancers were able to get their offense set, the lack of shots falling from the outside made it hard for the players to get any easy buckets from inside the paint as the Chiefs were able to sag off outside shooters and clog the lane.

There certainly were some bright spots for the Lancer's as Guard Kennedy Worrell posted a team high 16 points while shooting a remarkable 71% from the floor, and Forward Emily Polelle collected a team high 10 rebounds in the contest.

Overall, Coach Brokmeier thought it was less what his team didn't do and more what the Chiefs did do.

"We played a really good team, that played well today," Brokmeier said.

Play well they did.

As a team, the Chiefs shot 48 percent from the field compared to the Lancers 28 percent.

With the handful of games that remained the Lancers wished to improve upon some areas of their game.

Worrell, for example, would like to see better defensive rotation, so opposing teams are not left with as many wide-open looks and Brokmeier would like his team to take better care of the ball.

With a short break to work on these things in tow, a match-up against a competent Morton College team, and the end of the season in sight, the Lancers sought to end their season on a high note.