With some spectacular three point shooting and good defense, the Colorado School of Mines Women’s basketball team defeated the home team, Black Hills State, by a score of 72-65. The win snapped a three game losing streak for the Lady Orediggers and moved them to 13-11 overall and 10-8 in RMAC play.
The Lady Orediggers (11-9, 8-6 RMAC) welcomed the Colorado Mesa Mavericks (18-0, 14-0 RMAC) to Golden on Friday looking to knock off the number four team in the country.
The Colorado School of Mines men’s basketball team squared off against the Colorado Mesa Mavericks on Friday night in Lockridge Arena. The Orediggers, down by as much as 17 in the first half, clawed their way out of that hole and forced the Mavericks into overtime.
In a game that vindicated basketball coaches everywhere preaching free throw shooting, the Mines men’s basketball team jumped out in front of Western State Colorado University early then held the Mountaineers at arms length to hang on for a 94-85 win Saturday at Lockridge Arena.
The Colorado School of Mines Men’s Basketball team traveled to Alamosa on Friday night to square off against the eighteenth ranked Adams State Grizzlies.
In what would prove to be a defensive battle, the Orediggers jumped out to an early 10-4 lead five minutes into the game, but by the halfway point of the first half, the score was tied at 11 with neither team being able to establishing much of a rhythm against stifling defenses. If it was not for free throw shooting in the first half, 10-12 from the charity stripe, the Orediggers would have been facing a far greater deficit at the half than the 22-28 hole they were in. Of the Orediggers final 12 points in the first half, nine of them came from the free throw line with a Brian Muller three-pointer standing as the only field goal that Mines made in the last half of the first session.
Women’s Basketball vs Adams State 1-25
The Lady Oredigger basketball team squared off against Adams State on Friday, looking to snap their two game losing streak and begin their road trip with a conference win.
Adams State scored the first bucket of the game, and looked to be in control of the game as they shot the ball well for the first five minutes of the half. But that was as much control that the Grizzlies would have. Mines soon battled back to take the lead 8-6, a lead they would never relinquish. Mines then went on a 13-5 run to jump out to a 21-11 lead halfway through the first period. The Lady Orediggers then stepped up their defense and took advantage of Adams State turnovers to lead 33-28 at the half. Mines shot 40% in the first with balanced scoring as seven players had scored at least two points. Meanwhile, the Grizzlies were only shooting 37.5%.
The Mines men’s basketball team entered the weekend dropping three of their last four games, looking to rebound and head in a new direction. After pulling away from UCCS on Friday night, the Orediggers were looking to build on their momentum Saturday against CSU-Pueblo during a “White-Out” hosted by SAAC and WAM.
The men’s basketball team pushed their single season win record to 29, winning in the first two rounds of the Division II NCAA Tournament before falling to cross town rival Metro State 73-64 in the round of sixteen, Tuesday, March 13, at Lockridge Arena.
Mines opened the tournament with impressive wins over Augustana (South Dakota) University and Southwestern Minnesota State in front of a packed Lockridge Arena to become the first team in school history to advance to the round of sixteen in the national tournament.
A stifling defense made up for a tough offensive outing as the #2 Orediggers outlasted Colorado Mesa University 63-47 Saturday in the championship game of the RMAC Shootout to earn the school’s first ever RMAC Tournament Championship in program history.
Angie Charchalis did it again. With the game on the line, and RMAC tournament seeds up for grabs, Charchalis nailed the game-winner with only nine seconds remaining over the University of Colorado-Colorado Springs securing a crucial 73-71 win.