ANDREW RICHARDSON
Special to The Leader
This past weekend was a bright spot in a very up and down season for the Fredonia women’s basketball team.
Although they did get blown out by Cortland 48-75 on Friday, the team showed solid effort.
They were able to come back the next night and destroy Oswego State 65-50. With a record of 9-15 this year, the Blue Devils are used to the win-one, lose-one types of weekends by now.
Despite this, players are saying that their coach has prepared them extremely well for the end of the season stretch.
“Our coach has definitely prepared us well for the last couple of games in our season. We work hard in practice and spend our time focusing on what we need to do to win,” said Sarah Sweazy, junior forward. “Our coach continues to tell us to not take any team for granted. Any team can win at any moment. The team that shows up to play will win. We want to be the team to win, and that is why we are working so hard to get better.”
Well they certainly did not take Oswego State for granted; if they can keep up this same intensity, things should be a breeze to end the year against Buffalo State.
Although, many people on the team are already preparing for the SUNYAC Tournament.
“I think the best thing we could do as a team to be successful in SUNYACs is to trust one another and to simply play our game,” said Heaven Rollek, sophomore guard. “We have some very talented post players, and a lot of our focus does tend to be to get the ball [to] them. As long as we can continue that and play good defense, we should win some games.”
The Blue Devils have always been known for their post play and their defense. But the question is, will it be enough to take out some of the SUNY’s best teams? With a regular season record of 9-15, one can only pray.
The only thing we know for certain is that the Blue Devils have until Feb. 20 to prepare for this tournament. Hopefully, the head coach’s vast playoff experience can help during the postseason.