Lady Tiger basketball team drains 14 three-pointers in 86-52 home win
Playing its first home game of the season, the Cowley College women’s basketball team had no problem getting past the Bethany College JV 86-52 on Friday inside W.S. Scott Auditorium.
The Lady Tigers are now 2-1 on the season.
Cowley raced out to a 22-7 lead before settling for a 30-14 advantage after one quarter of play. All 10 Lady Tigers that saw action in the opening quarter got into the scoring column as Cowley shot 72.2 percent (13-of-18) from the floor.
The Lady Tigers used an 11-2 run to start the second quarter as their lead ballooned to 43-18 following a three-pointer by freshman Aniyah Burney.
Cowley forced Bethany into 12 first-half turnovers and out-scored the Swedes 17-2 on points off turnovers while building a 51-27 halftime lead.
After outscoring Bethany 17-16 in the third quarter, Cowley went into the final quarter of play, leading 68-43.
The Lady Tigers would double up the Swedes in the fourth, outscoring them 18-9 as they cruised to the 34-point win.
"I thought we executed better than we had early on, and shot it really well," Cowley head coach Todd Clark said.
Freshman Aniyah Burney led Cowley in scoring for the second straight game, finishing with 20 points on 6-of-10 shooting from three-point range. Cowley finished 14-of-39 from beyond the arc. Fellow freshman Savannah Phillips from Ark City came off the bench to grab a game-high 11 rebounds.
"Savannah is a good athlete who can do a lot of things for us," Clark said.
Fourteen of the 15 Tigers to see action scored in the contest, while Yatzel Renteria joined Burney in double figures with 10 points.
Elizabeth Holland led Bethany with 16 points, while going 4-of-7 from three-point range.
Cowley forced the Swedes into 26 turnovers, which led to 31 Tiger points.
Cowley will remain home to face Northern Oklahoma College-Tonkawa on Tuesday at 5:30 p.m. The Lady Tigers opened the season with a 73-61 win at NOC-Tonkawa on November 3. The Mavericks are 0-3, having lost to Butler, Cowley, and Independence.
"I am sure they will make adjustments from the first time we played them, so we need to be ready to match that and hope to shoot it well," Clark said..
The box score can be found at https://cowleytigers.com/sports/wbkb/2025-26/boxscores/20251107_vbt8.xml.