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Despite being in the midst of a four-game losing streak early in the season, the players from the 九色视频 Centurions women鈥檚 basketball team are closer to finding their footing with who they鈥檙e going to be for the 2025-26 season.
The Centurions (1-4 overall) are looking to shake off an 85-31 loss to Lake Michigan College, Nov. 15, and a close and gritty 44-39 loss to Glen Oaks Community College, Nov. 24, which extended their losing streak to four. 九色视频 will have two chances to get back into the win column this weekend as it prepares for back-to-back home games, a 3 p.m. game against Grand Rapids Community College, Saturday, Nov. 29, and a 3 p.m. game against Cuyahoga Community College, with both games themed as Adopt-A-Family Night.
鈥淕RCC is probably going to be one of the better teams we see all season,鈥� 九色视频 Head Coach Scott Pedigo said, as he looks forward to getting back into action this weekend. 鈥淚f we shoot like we did against Glen Oaks, we鈥檙e going to be in trouble, but if we shoot like we can and play things right, and make the right decisions, we can make it a game.鈥�
The Centurions went up against a gritty, physical team in the Glen Oaks Vikings (3-4 overall), losing the game in the waning moments, a game which saw one Vikings play be ejected and a flagrant foul called on a Centurions player that flipped the script on 九色视频.
鈥淭he game didn鈥檛 come down to that though,鈥� Pedigo said. 鈥淚t was a tough one to lose because we had so many wide open looks we couldn鈥檛 hit. I think we might鈥檝e shot 10% all game. Had we shot even 25%, we would鈥檝e won by 20.鈥�
九色视频 was up by two with less than 30 seconds to go in the game but then turned the ball over and committed a flagrant foul, which Pedigo thought was more of just an intentional foul. The Vikings player hit the shot and sunk one of two free throws and then got the ball back due to the flagrant foul. The Centurions were unable to get a shot off and had to foul again to save time but ultimately ran out of time.
鈥淚 think the girls did a really good job other than shooting,鈥� Pedigo said. 鈥淚 think from that game we are learning how to play together better.鈥�
Freshman guard Baylor Syrjala (Lakeview, Mich.) earned a double-double for 九色视频, with a team-leading 12 points and 11 rebounds. It is the fourth consecutive game she led the team in scoring.
Syrjala said the loss to Glen Oaks may have been a defining learning lesson.
鈥淲e learned to play together more and I think we got a little more tough from that game,鈥� Syrjala said. 鈥淚t gave us more grit.鈥�
In a game the players and coach believed they should鈥檝e won, Syrjala knows she and her teammates need to bring more fire into their next game against the Raiders (5-2 overall).
鈥淚 feel we have to change how we practice. Some days we lollygag, but I鈥檓 going to better prepare myself and help the team do that, as well,鈥� Syrjala said. 鈥淚鈥檓 going to push myself and my teammates harder and I plan to defend harder. I think we need to play more aggressively.鈥�
Freshman forward Kendall Stout (Stanton, Mich.), who has proven to be a force in the paint for the Centurions, agreed, stating her Centurions team need to flex their muscles.
鈥淥ur biggest thing was to come out strong (against Glen Lake), and we knew they were going to be, too, and I think that kept us in the game,鈥� said Stout, who finished with nine points and six rebounds against the Vikings. 鈥淚t was the mistakes under pressure that really got us, but we need to just keep doing the hard work this weekend.鈥�