Sunday, December 11, 2011

Last 3 games

We won 2 and lost 1 over the last week of games.  On Tuesday, Dec. 6, we traveled to Central Hardin to play our first road game of the year.  We lost 63-52 to the Bruins.  We lost this game because of our inability to rebound the ball and get stops on the defensive end against their post players.  We were out rebounded 32-19 including giving up 12 offensive rebounds which resulted in 14 second chance points.  We only had 3 offensive rebounds for the night.  We continued to shoot the ball well from 2 point range by hitting 14/24 for 58%, but only made 3/10 from the 3 point line.  Central Hardin made 22/46 from the field for 48% and 8/18 from 3 point territory for 44%. 
We were led by Ollie Roberts' 19 points.  Also in double figures were Brady Clemons with 12 and Ethan Saltsman with 10. 

BRECK COUNTY:

On Thursday, Dec. 8th we played at home against the Breck Co. Tigers.  These games are always close as they are one of our biggest rivals in the region.  We came away with a hard fought 58-52 win.  We executed much better down the stretch in this game and that allowed us to come away with a victory.  For the game we shot 43% by hitting 20/47 from the field for 43%, including 6/18 from the 3 point line for 33%.  We out rebounded Breck Co. by 1, 26-25 but we doubled them up on offensive rebounds by getting 8 and only giving up 4.  None of those 4 offensive rebounds came in the second half.  We forced 20 turnovers and committed 14 of our own. 

We were led in scoring by Ollie Roberts with 15, Brady Clemons with 11 and Ryne Tinsley with 10. Ollie made it a double double by getting 10 rebounds to lead us. 


EDMONSON COUNTY GAME:

In our first game of the season against our biggest rival we came away with a 59-44 win.  We came out very sluggish and fell behind early but closed out the quarter strong to be down 1, 12-11 after the first quarter.  The second quarter was the difference in the game as we connected on 11-12 field goal attempts while holding the Wildcats to 5 points in the quarter.  We outscored them 24-5 to take command of the game.  In the second half we were outscored 26-24 but we played a lot of the last quarter with younger players in the game. 

For the game we shot 23/42 from the field for 55% and hit 6/12 from the 3 point line.  We also won the rebounding battle by a convincing 29-18 advantage.  We had 10 offensive rebounds to 5 for the Wildcats.  We forced 21 turnovers and committed 13 of our own. 

For the game we had 3 players in double figures, led by Ollie Roberts with 14, followed by Ethan Saltsman with 12 and Brady Clemons with 11.  Ollie and Ethan also led us with 7 rebounds and 6 respectively.