Yazoo County’s Lady Panthers started off the year with a 2-2 record, thanks in large part to their inability to put together back-to-back good games.
Having seen his team through the preseason and the first four games, Yazoo County head coach Patrick Nutter has come to a conclusion about his team.
“We’ll be fighting to get into the playoffs this year,” Nutter said. “We’re an extremely young team. We’re playing five or six sophomores, and we’re going eight or nine deep. We’ve also got two key injuries to Chloe Edwards and JaMyra Snow.”
According to Nutter, inconsistency has been the most egregious culprit.
“Our biggest problem is consistency,” Nutter said. “We’re good for a couple of plays then awful for a couple of plays. It isn’t that they’re forcing turnovers against us. We’re throwing it away. We’re just losing focus. We can’t even consistently be bad. We have no consistency whatsoever.”
In the opening game of the season, the Lady Panthers were defeated handily by Clinton by a score of 60-32.
Shamyia Douglas and Ke’Anna Norwood led the Lady Panthers with seven apiece in the season-opening loss.
Next up for Yazoo County was a contest against Germantown, which the Lady Panthers lost 46-43.
Aquasia Edwards had a big game for Yazoo County, racking up 18 points in the loss.
Destiny Epps and Ke’Anna Norwood each had nine points.
The Lady Panthers earned their first win of the season against Riverside on November 9 by a score of 48-45.
Destiny Epps led the Lady Panthers to victory with 21 points.
Aquasia Edwards was second on the team with eight points.
Yazoo County made it back-to-back wins against South Delta 41-16 on Tuesday night.
For the fourth game, the Lady Panthers had yet another new name leading the scoring. Akeriunna Frierson led the way with 13 points.
Times are difficult at the moment due to a lack of number and experience, but Nutter believes those days are almost over thanks to junior high coach and assistant high school coach Christina Demus.
“We had two seniors then three seniors, and thanks to a transfer, we have three now,” Nutter said. “We haven’t been getting big classes for a while. Our feeder program wasn’t sending them. Coach Christina Demus has turned things around at the junior high level, and you are starting to notice a difference. I’m a seeing a difference in the number of younger girls we have. In two years, we should be full in each class.”
Yazoo County returned to the hardwood on Thursday night against archrival Yazoo City, but it was not upon completion by press time.
