Baird Blames Loss on Poor Shooting

Liberal head coach Bill Baird says it came down to poor shooting. He says his team played with effort and took good shots but just couldn’t make them in a 39-28 loss at home to Guymon Tuesday night in the home opener in the Big House. It’s Liberal’s first loss at home to Guymon since 2008.

The 2-0 Lady Tigers of new coacn Rennie Nickell jumped out 9-0 against LHS and led 9-7 after one quarter. Guymon led 25-13 at the half and 30-20 at the end of three. The lady Skins made a run to cut the GHS lead to five (31-26) in the fourth quarter, but couldn’t hit enough shots to get over the hump. Guymon had an advantage at the free throw line going 13-25 while LHS was 1-4. Jai Chapman scored 12 in the loss while Guymon’s Yajaira Rodriguez and Sydney Hein had 11 a piece.

Liberal hosts Lawton Friday at 6 and Bartlesville Saturday at 4 in the Conestoga/Community Bank Classic on 1270 and kscbnews.net.