Girls Basketball
Western Plains
By CHUCK ZIMMERMAN
February 14, 2008
Northern Valley Lady Husky Basketball
Western Plains
While I was preparing for the Western Plains game I thought “we haven’t had a close game lately so that we could be tested on how to play in tight games”. Well, I did not expect the Western Plains game to be such a game but it turned out to be as we came from behind to win 40-39 in a game where we only shot 30% from the field and the Bobcats a season high 40%.
The key had to be turnovers. Yes, the very same statistic that I have been saying we need to improve upon. In this game where possessions were very important – for us to have more and our opponents less, we did ourselves proud and as a team only had 13 while our defense helped cause 32 by the Bobcats. Now if we can only complete the game plan and concentrate on rebounding even better (we were out rebounded by 8) we can start that final push toward the end of conference play and post season.
Our defense hustled hard, not efficiently, but hard and our girls never gave up even though we were behind by 4 with less than a minute to play. Deflects and steals were key in the final minute plus as we put the speed team on the court and just denied every pass and it paid off with more shooting opportunities.
Our deflects leader was Alison Cole with 8 (I should mention that many of Alison’s deflects are blocked or tipped shots – in this game she had 3 blocks). Christina Anderson followed with 5 which were very close to being steals. Megan Cole hustled to tip 3.
Steals were taken by Jessica Largent with 5 while Megan C and Alison C each took 4 from the Bobcats while Staci Dole swiped 3.
Assists were plentiful as we continue to be very unselfish with some teammates being too much so. Anderson found 4 “sisters” open while our point guard duo of Joni Hilburn and Staci Dole each found 3.
A good win, one that proved we can fight our way back and also that we can take care of the ball when we need to.
3pt 2pt Ft Reb St As’t Def
Karen Wenzel 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Megan Cole 0 2 0 1 4 2 3
Alison Cole 0 7 3 6 4 2 8
Kenzie Chandler 0 0 1 0 0 0
Staci Dole 2 0 0 3 3 3 0
Joni Hilburn 0 0 0 4 1 3 2
Christina Anderson 1 3 0 6 2 4 5
Phoung Le 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Brittney Braun 0 0 0 2 2 0 1
Pam Araujo 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Jessica Largent 0 2 0 7 5 2 0
