Lady Indians win season opener; Dowse earns 200th career win

Sports, Team FYN Sports

The Lumpkin County Lady Indians basketball team celebrated for an extra reason on Tuesday night. Their 51-45 victory over Chestatee started their season with a win and earned head coach David Dowse his 200th career win.

The team stood together afterwards to take a picture with Dowse holding a special wooden sign in the shape of 200.

Mary Mullinax moves the ball up the court for Lumpkin.

Dowse was pleased with the effort the team put in the game, saying “To be a young group early in the season, I thought we competed extremely hard. And we made some really big plays to come out victorious.”

The 2019-2020 Lady Indians are a team of nine with six of those nine playing their first season as freshmen. One of those freshmen is Mary Mullinax, who contributed 18 points to the Lady Indians overall score. Junior Isabel Davenport put up the most overall at 19.

The Lady Indians went ahead early on and stayed in front of Chestatee for most of the game. But the lead was only by a few points. That gave the Lady War Eagles a chance to slip ahead, and they did just that late in the third period with a three point shot by Maggie McNair.

Lumpkin County was quick to come back with four points from Lexi Pierce and Mullinax, then extended that lead with back to back three point shots by Davenport and Mullinax.

Isabel Davenport added the most points for the Lady Indians with 19 overall.

Lumpkin County is on the road again Friday night against White County, and Dowse said between now and then the teams’ focus will be on mental toughness.

“It’s the mental piece. Sometimes I feel like we give into fatigue and we use fatigue as an excuse for perhaps not executing on the offensive end as well as we’re capable, or if we’re not communicating as well as we’re capable of on the defensive end…those are little things that I think we can learn and grow toward.”

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