The Perry girls basketball team is not one to make excuses, and the Jayettes know the best way to show improvement when their season picks up again Friday will be shooting with greater accuracy and avoiding lopsided halftime deficits.
The Jayettes (1-10 overall, 0-4 in Raccoon River Conference) are scoring only 31.6 points per game while surrendering an average of 64.8 points. Perry has faced an average deficit at the intermission of their games of 31-17, limiting chances for success.
The team is scoring just 5.6 points in the second quarter, lowest in 4A. Perry has made 52-of-215 3-pointers (24.2 percent), with Molly Lutmer 30-of-98 (30.6 percent) by far the leader. Her 30 treys are tied for second-most in 4A.
Unfortunately the squad is shooting only 122-of-453 (26.9 percent) overall, and combined with nearly 20 turnovers per game, the scoring has suffered.
Lutmer has done her part, scoring 187 points for an average of 17 points per game. Gabby West is second on the team with 37 points, with Jayna Kenney having scored 34 points.
The 60 rebounds collected by Lutmer leads the team, as does her 35 steals, with West having pulled down 51 caroms.
Perry visits Ballard Friday and Boone Jan. 8 before hosting Bondurant-Farrar Jan. 11 for a trio of games that will complete the first rotation of the RRC schedule.
