HELENA, Mont. – The 20th-ranked Carroll College women's basketball team has twice made the trip to the Electric City to play No. 21 University of Great Falls and both times the Argos handed the Saints losses. Saturday in the Frontier Conference Semifinals, Carroll will look to buck the trend.
 
The key in both losses for the Saints was shooting woes. Carroll was a combined three of 37 from the three-point line in both games at UGF this year. The Saints were 13 of 30 in the last two games and are coming off their best shooting game of the season.
 
"Obviously we can't go one of 20 from the three-point line," head coach Rachelle Sayers said. "I thought we defended them really well, and I thought we ran our offense really well the last time we were up there but we just couldn't get the shots to fall."
 
The Saints are the sixth-best defensive scoring team in NAIA DI and hope to slow down the potent UGF attack.
 
"They like to keep it up tempo, so we will have to control that and we are going to have to do the same things we have been doing all year," Sayers said. "We've got to work our offense from the inside out and we have got to have kids that are ready on the perimeter to knock down open shots."
 
Carroll is led by Cassidy Hashley, the sophomore center scores a team-high 12.59 points and 8.31 rebounds per game. Carroll's big inside presence has been a key to victory much of the season but the Saints need the perimeter shooters to take pressure off of the inside.
 
"The biggest thing is that the kids are ready to shoot," Sayers said. "We're confident in them. We want them to shoot it. They now understand that they have to be ready to shoot it. When the posts are being doubled and when people are sagging to the middle, we've got to hit some shots from the perimeter to open some things up inside."
 
The Argos are led by Erin Legel with 16 points and Whitney George has leads UGF with 7.21 points per game.
 
Tipoff is slated for 7 p.m. at the McLaughlin Center.