Lady Beavers Prepare For Jimmies

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The andamp;lt;a href=andamp;quot;http://www.kxnet.com/t/minot-ndandamp;quot; class=andamp;quot;kxInlineLinkandamp;quot;andamp;gt;Minotandamp;lt;/aandamp;gt; State women's andamp;lt;a href=andamp;quot;http://www.kxnet.com/t/basketballandamp;quot; class=andamp;quot;kxInlineLinkandamp;quot;andamp;gt;Basketballandamp;lt;/aandamp;gt; team will be at home tomorrow night when they host andamp;lt;a href=andamp;quot;http://www.kxnet.com/t/jamestown-ndandamp;quot; class=andamp;quot;kxInlineLinkandamp;quot;andamp;gt;Jamestownandamp;lt;/aandamp;gt; in DAC play. The Lady Beavers are 1-2 in conference play after splitting a weekend series with andamp;lt;a href=andamp;quot;http://www.kxnet.com/t/south-dakotaandamp;quot; class=andamp;quot;kxInlineLinkandamp;quot;andamp;gt;South Dakotaandamp;lt;/aandamp;gt; Mines and Black Hills State. The Jimmies are 2-1 in the conference and the Lady Beavers point to their defense as a key in their fourth straight conference game on their home court. Sheila Green-Gerding, andamp;lt;a href=andamp;quot;http://www.kxnet.com/t/minot-state-universityandamp;quot; class=andamp;quot;kxInlineLinkandamp;quot;andamp;gt;MSUandamp;lt;/aandamp;gt; women's basketball coach:It's an absolutely kind of back against the wall situation for us. We need to get this win. We already been through a situation where we've won one out of three home games so it's a very, very important game for us. I don't know that we need to emphasize it anymore because I think our ladies understand that. Jamestown's got a lot of weapons. They shoot the three ball very well. They've got post players that are hard to guard and hard to defend inside and then they've got people that can penetrate and create so they kind of bring the complete package and get it done in one facet or another every night. We need to be better defensively number one. Point blank we're just not playing great defense right now and we're doing a really, really poor job of keeping them off the offensive glass so that will be our main focus of defending and keeping people off the glass and not giving them second opportunities. Offensively we've got to take care of the basketball and I think we've done a better job of that recently. You know we shot the ball pretty well last weekend. We need to continue to do that and just run our stuff and do what we do but we really need to improve on the defensive end and also on the board. Dora Garza, freshman:I think we're gonna get after it every play and just go as hard as we can and we'll get rewarded on the offensive end. Game time tomorrow night is at 5:30 at the MSU dome.  « Less