Coventry’s women basketball teams need to regroup after both the Quality Cats and the Crusaders Ladies were on the end of sound thrashings.

The Crusader Ladies took on Loughborough Students on Monday at Tile Hill College and for the second time this season were found lacking.

It was a lack of aggression that cost them the game, after pulling ahead in the first quarter then trading baskets with Loughborough.

But when the visitors stepped up the pace they left their hosts behind, and romped away to wint he game 61-31.

Coach Tiffany Mitchell said:

“If my girls were more aggressive we would be very dangerous. It’s hard to teach this but I think it’s the key to our success.”

Meanwhile the Coventry Quality Cats travelled to play the Rhondda Robels to try and reverse the huge drubbing they subjected to in the home tie.

Coventry found themselves travelling with just six players due to Wendy Smith and Emma Brown being out injured; Shari Pope, Anita Renton and Ruth Graveling being unable to make the game and with Jordana Freemantle unwell.

Coventry were also without their head coach, so that responsibility fell to Tiffany Mitchell and Emma Brown.

Unlike the previous game, when the Quality Cats failed to score for eight minutes, they managed to respond when Rhondda took the lead.

QC struggled slightly mid way through the first quarter, which enabled Rhondda to take the lead going into the second quarter, but fought back and unsettled the hosts.

By the interval the gap was narrowed to twelve points. But they had lost Marta Urien, who fouled out of the game towards the end of the second quarter.

As Coventry tired Rhondda seized the opportunity to extend their lead and were twenty points ahead by the end of the third.

With seven minutes left to play – the Cats were reduced to four players, and all chances of a comeback were lost and the final score was Rhondda 99 Coventry 69.