Women's Basketball | 10/29/2026 12:22:00 PM

The Cloud County Community College women's basketball team is set to play Motlow State Community College on Friday, October 30 at Copperweld Arena in the first of two contests at the Motlow State Tip-Off Classic in Tullahoma, Tennessee to open the 2026-2027 season.

Tipoff is set for 6 pm and the game will be streamed on the Motlow State Community College Hudl account.

The Cloud County Community College women's basketball team was picked to finish 10th in the 2026-2027 Kansas Jayhawk Community College Conference (KJCCC) Division I Preseason Coaches' Poll.

The T-Birds are coming off a season in which they finished 14-16 overall and 10-14 in KJCCC play. Cloud County earned the No. 10 seed in the 2026 NJCAA Region 6 Division I Women's Basketball Tournament before seeing its season come to an end against Barton in the opening round.

Head coach Brett Erkenbrack enters his 38th season guiding the T-Birds. The all-time career wins leader in the history of Region 6 women's basketball, Erkenbrack has compiled a 770-401 (65.8 percent) overall career record with 21 seasons of 20 or more wins. Erkenbrack was inducted into the Cloud County Athletics Hall of Fame in 2010 and the NJCAA Hall of Fame in 2017.

Erkenbrack's roster will feature plenty of new faces this season as the team returns zero minutes from a year ago. Forward Annika Moore and guard Jazlene Ruiz are the only two returners, but both redshirted last season due to injury.

Cloud County has welcomed a core group of transfers, including guard Auburn Aton from Weatherford College, forward Zanasia Marshall from Daytona State College, guard Breanna Reeves from Pratt Community College, and forward Paige Smith from Kansas Wesleyan University. Reeves appeared in 20 games for the Beavers where she averaged 1.7 points and 1.3 rebounds per game, while Marshall appeared in ten games for the Falcons.

Newcomers include guard Sara Mora Gonzalez of Alicante, Spain, guard Bre'Azia Jones of Houston, Texas, forward Ceanna McKines of Las Cruces, New Mexico, guard Ella Oehmke of Palmer, Kansas, and guard Khiya Smith of Dallas, Texas.

The Motlow State Bucks are under the direction of first year head coach James Thatcher. Previously, Thatcher served as the head women's basketball coach at Southeast Arkansas College.

Last year, the Bucks went 16-16 overall and 11-9 in Tennessee Community College Athletic Association (TCCAA) play.

Motlow State returns five players from last season, including sophomore guard Sable Winfree who averaged 16.0 points per game on 49.7 percent shooting while adding 3.4 assists and 2.6 steals per game. Sophomore point guard Ayan Ali averaged 15.2 points and 2.5 rebounds per game. Sophomore guard Anaam Ali averaged 14.1 points per game on a team-best 54.1 percent shooting, while sophomore guard Emma Sazonov averaged 13.7 points and a team-high 7.3 rebounds per game.

Cloud County closes out the Motlow State Tip-Off Classic on Saturday, October 31 against Columbia State Community College at 11 am from Copperweld Arena.