Even though the Saratoga Lady Panthers didn’t make it to regionals last weekend, Justine Fourman broke her high-point average in the pigtail game against the Lusk Lady Tigers, Feb. 22.
Fourman scored 25 points and had 11 rebounds in the game against Lusk.
Fourman didn’t find out about breaking her season record until three days after the pigtail game.
“I never have been a person to keep track of the score,” Fourman said.
When the senior player heard about her score she was still trying to deal with the fact that the season was over.
“It was a letdown,” Fourman said of the loss.
She was actually surprised to learn of her record, which was at 78 percent of field goal attempts because usually when she plays that well, the team wins.
She has had a couple of games where she scored 24 points and they were winning games for the team.
Fourman said it was a good year. “I had a good attitude and the girls had a good attitude, too.”
She said adjusting to a new coaching style was a hard adjustment, but now she wishes she was younger so she could play a few more years. She found herself doing things she knew she was capable of.
She hasn’t decided if she will continue to play basketball in college.
Even with her recent personal record, she feels her freshman year was her best.
“It built my confidence,” Fourman said of her freshman year.
Fourman scored 275 points during the season making 48 percent of her field goal attempts, on 93 of 194 shots.
Her 3-point average was 33 percent on 29 of 87 attempts and she was successful at 47 percent of her free throws, making 27 of 57.
Fourman has 160 rebounds during the season, 54 offensive and 106 defensive, 57 steals, 57 assists and 19 blocks.
After four years of high school basketball she still believes she didn’t practice enough, even though she would shoot hoops and play a pickup game when she could get a squad together.
But she also feels blessed to have been injury free and healthy all four years.
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