The first quarter Saturday inside Hamilton Arena for SMWC women's basketball may be one the Pomeroys want to forget. But coach Terry Bowe hopes the performance by Oakland City to outscore SMWC 35-13 provides something to learn from. 
After all, the Pomeroys, who lost 85-57 to fall to 13-9 overall and 8-4 in the RSC, make a return trip to play the Mighty Oaks to close the regular-season in what could be a meaningful game as teams jockey for postseason seeding. 
SMWC had a game's worth of turnovers (13) in the first quarter that gave the Mighty Oaks many easy scoring plays.
"We'll focus on the first five minutes of the game and first five minutes of the third quarter," Bowe said of studying the tape with his team. "Those two segments, the first quarter broke us. And the third-quarter segment, had we played like that the entire game, we'd be talking about a buzzer-beater type game." 
The Pomeroys were outscored in each of the four quarters, but they looked like themselves in the second, third and fourth quarter.
"We did a good job of adjusting, but anytime you put yourself in a double-digit hole. You have to utliize so much energy to to get yourself back in the game. And they're athletic enough and good enough, they withstood every run we made," Bowe said of the Mighty Oaks, currently the No. 2 team in the overall RSC standings. 
Madison Fueger led the Pomeroys with 19 points and nine rebounds. Brooklynn Jones added 11 and Irye Gomez 10.
Allyson Hardiek was solid in the paint with 11 rebounds and three blocked shots.

UP NEXT
SMWC plays host to IU East on Thursday. 

NEWS AND NOTES

• SMWC's 26.8 percent shooting from the field was the worst performance during RSC play this season for the Pomeroys. 
• SMWC's 2 for 20 from 3-point range continued a recent slump. The Pomeroys are 9 for 64 (14 percent) the past four games on 3-point attempts.