The Bulldog women’s bas­ket­ball team dropped its first con­fer­ence game on Thursday but bounced back in the sec­ond con­fer­ence on Saturday.

On Saturday, the Bulldogs faced Ohio Dominican. Ferris started off slow but man­aged to gain the lead halfway through the sec­ond half and didn’t look back.

Senior for­ward Tiara Adams was the lead­ing scorer for the Bulldogs with 17 points, 10 rebounds and three steals. Senior cen­ter Andrea Clancy had 11 points and sopho­more forward/center Katy Fox had 10 points.

“One of our keys to vic­tory was to get it inside to the post play­ers as much as pos­si­ble,” said Clancy. “And our guards cer­tainly did that.”

Adams, Fox, and Clancy com­bined for 38 points while the Bulldogs held a 36–12 edge in points-in-the-paint.

The Bulldogs had a 45.1 per­cent field goal aver­age, mak­ing 23 of 51 attempts. Ferris ulti­mately came out on top against Ohio Dominican, win­ning the game 70–64.

“The first half was a lit­tle shaky,” Clancy said. “But after half­time we came out with great inten­sity and energy that got us some great stops on defense.”

Thursday, the Bulldogs hit a rough patch at their league season-opener against Tiffin. The Dragons forced the Bulldogs to turn over the ball 21 times and held them to a 43.8 field goal percentage.

In the sec­ond half, the Bulldogs improved their shoot­ing per­cent­age to 50, but it wasn’t enough to stop the Dragons. Ferris would drop its first GLIAC con­test 75–65.

Although they lost, many play­ers showed up to play. Junior guard/forward Kelsey DeNoelles had a team high 12 points and Adams tal­lied 11 points and six rebounds. Clancy con­tributed eight points along with seven points from junior guard/forward Lindsay Pettit.

The Bulldogs are now 4–3 over­all and 1–1 in the con­fer­ence. The Bulldogs will try to con­tinue the momen­tum from the Ohio Dominican win into a con­test at Hillsdale on Tuesday before return­ing home to play Northwood on Saturday. n