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<\/p>\nThe Yates Center Wildcats hope for a quick turnaround after falling to the Southeast Lancers 54-30 to open the second half of the 2025-2026 season Tuesday.\u00a0<\/p>\n
With the exception of an 11-point fourth quarter, Southeast held Yates Center to single digits in quarterly scoring while handing the Wildcats their fourth loss in Three Rivers League action.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cWe didn\u2019t play as well as we should or could have,\u201d Yates Center coach Eric Busteed said. \u201cWe got got into foul trouble early, and could not get into a rhythm offensively. Defensively and rebounding, we did very well.\u201d<\/p>\n
With all TRL standout sophomore guard Cayten Cummings limited early with foul trouble, senior post Kinley Morrison did her best to fill the void. She had a team-leading 13 points with the majority of her points coming in the fourth quarter.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Cummings managed a respectable 7-point performance while freshman Tristyn Steel came off the bench for 5 points.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re going to bounce back. I have no doubt about that,\u201d Coach Busteed said. \u201cComing out of the break, we had a little rust. We had a good rhythm going at the end of December, but two weeks off threw everything off.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Wildcats return to the hardwood Thursday, when they head on the road to face the Erie Red Devils. A win Friday puts Yates Center one game within .500 in the TRL and Coach Busteed feels Erie may be just the right team for the Wildcats following their tough slog Tuesday night.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cIf we play our game, and stay patient and do what we do, then we have a chance to play with anybody,\u201d Busteed said. \u201cThere are a few teams that are harder than others, but Friday I have a good feeling we\u2019re going to show more resolve and patience on offense and continue playing well on defense and rebounding.\u201d<\/p>\n
Tip-off for Friday\u2019s contest is at 6 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Yates Center Wildcats hope for a quick turnaround after falling to the Southeast Lancers 54-30 to open…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":81710,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[136,138,137],"class_list":{"0":"post-81709","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-erie","8":"tag-erie","9":"tag-erie-headlines","10":"tag-erie-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81709\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}