The short-handed University of Washington women’s basketball team is hoping to have all hands on deck when the Huskies open play at the Great Alaska Shootout tonight.
Starting point guard Sarah Morton (sprained ankle) and top reserve Regina Rogers (strained hamstring) sat out Saturday’s blowout loss to Brigham Young but are in Alaska and are game-time decisions for the first-round tilt with Kent State. The game begins at 9 p.m. Pacific time.
Morton sprained her ankle in a preseason exhibition and has yet to play in an official game. Without her, the Huskies (1-1) have been forced to move wing player Kristi Kingma to the point guard position while inserting freshman Marjorie Heard into the starting lineup. The injury has also forced freshman point guard Mercedes Wetmore to play extended minutes in UW’s first two games.
Rogers, a 6-foot-3 post player, shared top scoring honors with Kingma — they each scored 18 points — in a season-opening win over Portland State. But Rogers played just 24 minutes in that game because of a tender hamstring.
With Rogers sidelined on Saturday, the UW bench scored just 10 points on 4-of-15 shooting in an 80-55 loss to BYU.
The winner of tonight’s game will face either San Jose State or host Alaska-Anchorage in Wednesday’s championship game.
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