Yowies women off to a flyer

It was a physically tough match, but a fairly one-sided affair.

The Bears only managed to score four points in the first quarter- Queanbeyan going into quarter time up by 17 points.

By the main break the Yowies had almost doubled the Bears score, up by 21 points.

The game was all but won by the start of the final term, up by an almost unachievable 34 points.

Goulburn made a last-ditch effort at a comeback, but Queanbeyan took the foot off the pedal and cruised to a 71 to 42 victory.

"It was a pretty tough game, very physical and we had to go out of our way to protect ourselves, which is always tough," Yowies coach Christine Higgisson said.

"But I was very impressed with the leadership up the floor and I was very impressed with the game for a first hit-out.

"It was great to see the support of the Queanbeyan crowd behind us and the number of people who came out to support us."

Yowies captain Kristen Langhorn and former coach Penny Toldeo-Ocampo top scored for Queanbeyan with 16 and 12 points respectively.

But coach Higgisson said the team as a whole stepped up and all played a part in the win.

"Annie La Fleur and Belinda Turk had good leadership on the floor and Hayley Douglas shut down one of their key players," she said.

"But I had really good standard and quality with my subs too, so I could sub players in and know our playing standard wouldn't drop."

The only area of improvement Higgisson could find in the Yowies game was playing against a zone defence.

"We have to work on zone defence, how we're going to get around it and finding the gaps," she said.

Higgisson and her girls take on Wagga Blaze at home on Saturday and she said the fierce rivalry between the two teams should make it a game to watch.

"They're physical (like Goulburn), but their standard of athleticism is very different (to Goulburn)," she said.

"They've got a lot better basketball IQ, so leadership from our older heads should be very important again."