The University of Wyoming women’s basketball team beat San José State University this Saturday Feb. 17 in San José with a buzzer beater.
Cowgirls’ junior Marta Gomez put up the winning shot with 0.7 seconds left in the game giving the Cowgirls a 66 – 64 win over San José State.
“The score was tied with 2.4 seconds left and that’s why you hold on to timeouts,” head coach Joe Legerski said. “So instead of taking it all the way down the court, we were able to advance up the sideline and choose what side… We decided to run our out of bounds play with Marta (Gomez); if she was in a position to catch the ball, which she was and delivered again.”
Senior Liv Roberts led in scoring for the Cowgirls with 18 points. Behind her was Gomez with 15 points, 11 of which were scored in the fourth quarter, and sophomore Taylor Rusk who had 12 points.
The Cowgirls had to work the whole game to pull off their win. Going down 15 – 16 after the first quarter and struggling in the second quarter, only scoring 12 points.
The Cowgirls were down 35 – 27 starting the third quarter and matched SJSU’s 15 points in the third, remaining down by 8 points going in to the last quarter of the game.
The Cowgirls put on a last minute charge in the fourth quarter, scoring a total of 24 points over SJSU’s 14 points and ending the game 66 – 64 over SJSU.
SJSU senior Myzhanique Ladd had the most points for the Spartans, putting up 26 points. The players with the next most points were sophomore Taylor Turney and sophomore Fieme’a Hafoka, both with 8 points.
Next, the Cowgirls are taking on the University of New Mexico this Wednesday, Feb. 21 at 7 pm MST in Albuquerque.
