"Courtside" with Sonya Sundberg

Conference is off and running!!! We faced Angelo State Saturday night in our first conference game of the season and came away with a great victory. We started off the game pretty much neck and neck with them but late in the first half we had a huge spark defensively and went into the locker room up by 14. We knew we had to come out strong the second half because this is a very tough team to play. We ended up doing a great job the second half and really had a great game defensively.

Speaking of defense, we worked hard on it all week after our loss to University of Texas Permian Basin on Monday in Odessa. This was a tough loss for us and we really had a break down defensively. Therefore, we knew that if we wanted to get back on a winning streak we would have to work much harder on defense. The UTPB game was definitely a controversial ending with the clock not starting, but it is like Coach Hearne told us after the game, we really should have never let it get to that point. On a positive note, I think it was good for us to be in a close game at the end and hopefully we will learn from that game and make it worth something.

We head to Denton on Monday to make up the game from over Christmas break, and then we are back at home against Eastern New Mexico on Wednesday to continue conference play. I appreciate everyone that came out last night and I know the rest of the team does too!! Go TexAnns!

"Courtside" with Sonya Sundberg

Happy New Year!!! I hope everyone had a great Christmas. Before the Christmas break we traveled to Oklahoma to face East Central on the 12th and Southeastern Oklahoma on the 14th. We had a slower start in the East Central game, but came out of halftime with a different mind set and pulled out the win. Southeastern gave us our first and only loss of the season thus far. It was a close game all the way through but they got the better of us in the end. We concluded the month of December with two wins at home against Southwestern Oklahoma and Cameron.

We all enjoyed about 6 days off from basketball, and returned the 28th for practice. We have had a very tough week of practices and are ready to start playing in games again. We start off the New Year with a game against Texas Wesleyan tomorrow evening, January 2nd at 5 pm. We hope you come out and see us start 2010 off right!!