Staff photo by Mike Buhler Kennett's Hope Sparks (front) is fouled by a Cape Central defender during the third quarter of Saturday's SEMO Conference girls' basketball game at Kennett High School. [Click to enlarge]

STEELE, Mo. -- Entering last week, the Kennett Lady Indians had not won a basketball game all season and were coming off their worst loss of the year.

What a difference a week makes.

The Lady Tribe won their second game of the season -- and in the last week -- Monday night, defeating South Pemiscot 61-41 in Bootheel Conference action.

With the victory, Kennett is 2-14 on the season and 1-5 in the Bootheel Conference.

Even in the Lady Indians' last two losses, the team has played better, losing 52-48 to Sikeston last Monday and suffering a 59-45 loss to the Cape Central Lady Tigers at Kennett High School on Saturday.

In the game against Cape Central, the Lady Tribe rallied from a huge deficit to make it a 10-point game in the final minute before falling.

Against Central, Kennett simply had no answer for 6-foot-2 junior Wendi Zickfield, who scored a game-high 30 points -- more than her teammates combined.

Jessie Greenway led the Lady Indians with 15 points, while Hope Sparks added 12.

Sadie Pittman added 14 points for the Lady Tigers.

Kennett is back in action Thursday when it travels to Poplar Bluff before kicking off play at the Bootheel Conference play next week.

Notes: In Saturday's junior varsity contest, the Lady Indians took a 39-29 win over Cape Central. ... The Lady Tigers played again Monday night, losing to Notre Dame 70-61 at the Show-Me Center in Cape Girardeau to fall to 9-9 on the season. ... Kennett is 0-5 in SEMO Conference play after the losses to Sikeston and Cape Central and has three SEMO games remaining. The Lady Tribe plays at Poplar Bluff on Thursday, at Doniphan on February 11 and travels to New Madrid County Central for the regular season finale on February 19.