Great Game!
Yeah, that was a great game last night, impressive turnaround by Sac High to reverse their streak of empty trips to the Section Finals by taking home the banner.
Gotta say tho, if Sac High discovers in the next few days how to effectively (key word here) run their half court offense, (hell, ANYBODY'S half court offense) they might be alright as they move on, they needed to find a way to control tempo against a smaller, faster and deeper team. They essentially gutted out that game last night because they were definitely gassed most of that game and when they couldn't run, they were lost - well that's not entirely true, they had opportunities to do stuff still when they broke the press, but got themselves in trouble with their questionable passing decisions.
Vicki Baugh had an outstanding game, sensed that she needed to take control of things and certainly did. I can't find all of her stats, the Bee had a partial line on her of 26pts and 20 rebs. I'd guesstimate that she had at least 5-6 blocks including one final definitive one in the waning seconds of that game to help keep St. Mary's impressive perimeter shooters at bay. She looked to be glued on whiteline on the weakside, St Mary's was able to swing the ball around the perimeter to a player camped out on the wing...um, sorta like game 2 of the 2005 Finals. Baugh however closed out on this shooter...(that she was able to get to her was enough to showcase her speed - I'm still not sure how she got there-but that's not even the most impressive part)...Baugh not only got a piece of the shot, she got EVERY LITTLE LAST BIT of the damn ball and sent it into the red seats in the corner section on that side of the floor. (Um...yeah...if you've been to ARCO and know where the red seats start in those corner sections in relation to the floor?...yeah, it was THAT impressive a block...and remember she too had to first close out on the shooter from the middle of the paint...feeling that? the arena sure did!
It took a while to retrieve the ball once it ping ponged off folks and onto the table in that corner)
The only marr on the game last night was a completely unnecessary flagrant foul in the waning seconds of that game. Sac High was nursing a 3 pt lead (lol, kinda the same 3pt lead they finished with), Baugh is rumbling down the floor after a St. Mary's turnover, looking every bit to me like she's thinking dunk (she may not have thrown it down, but it looked like it was in her head), as she takes flight - St. Mary's player decides to give her a double barrelled shove into the basket stantion. Just a thought..Young one..if that's all you can think to do? let her have the damn basket, you could have seriously injured somebody being stupid like that. The talk has been that Baugh is mild mannered and unassuming...eh..not after she got up from that...she was a liiitle bit feisty.
Also was cool to have another Kara Lawson sighting, kinda weird seeing her sitting IN arena seats I thought I heard as we walked out last night that this game (and perhaps all of the other section games) would be aired on Comcast at some point in the future. Check it out if that's true - watch for the authoritative block late in the 4th quarter, completely worth it.
From my quick perusal of the CIF site for info on the regionals, I saw that the brackets will be released late tomorrow afternoon. So we'll have an idea pretty quick what on tap for the Dragons, both the girls and the boys...congratulations to Sac High for their section title double dip last night.
Yeah, that was a great game last night, impressive turnaround by Sac High to reverse their streak of empty trips to the Section Finals by taking home the banner.
Gotta say tho, if Sac High discovers in the next few days how to effectively (key word here) run their half court offense, (hell, ANYBODY'S half court offense) they might be alright as they move on, they needed to find a way to control tempo against a smaller, faster and deeper team. They essentially gutted out that game last night because they were definitely gassed most of that game and when they couldn't run, they were lost - well that's not entirely true, they had opportunities to do stuff still when they broke the press, but got themselves in trouble with their questionable passing decisions.
Vicki Baugh had an outstanding game, sensed that she needed to take control of things and certainly did. I can't find all of her stats, the Bee had a partial line on her of 26pts and 20 rebs. I'd guesstimate that she had at least 5-6 blocks including one final definitive one in the waning seconds of that game to help keep St. Mary's impressive perimeter shooters at bay. She looked to be glued on whiteline on the weakside, St Mary's was able to swing the ball around the perimeter to a player camped out on the wing...um, sorta like game 2 of the 2005 Finals. Baugh however closed out on this shooter...(that she was able to get to her was enough to showcase her speed - I'm still not sure how she got there-but that's not even the most impressive part)...Baugh not only got a piece of the shot, she got EVERY LITTLE LAST BIT of the damn ball and sent it into the red seats in the corner section on that side of the floor. (Um...yeah...if you've been to ARCO and know where the red seats start in those corner sections in relation to the floor?...yeah, it was THAT impressive a block...and remember she too had to first close out on the shooter from the middle of the paint...feeling that? the arena sure did!
It took a while to retrieve the ball once it ping ponged off folks and onto the table in that corner)The only marr on the game last night was a completely unnecessary flagrant foul in the waning seconds of that game. Sac High was nursing a 3 pt lead (lol, kinda the same 3pt lead they finished with), Baugh is rumbling down the floor after a St. Mary's turnover, looking every bit to me like she's thinking dunk (she may not have thrown it down, but it looked like it was in her head), as she takes flight - St. Mary's player decides to give her a double barrelled shove into the basket stantion. Just a thought..Young one..if that's all you can think to do? let her have the damn basket, you could have seriously injured somebody being stupid like that. The talk has been that Baugh is mild mannered and unassuming...eh..not after she got up from that...she was a liiitle bit feisty.
Also was cool to have another Kara Lawson sighting, kinda weird seeing her sitting IN arena seats
I thought I heard as we walked out last night that this game (and perhaps all of the other section games) would be aired on Comcast at some point in the future. Check it out if that's true - watch for the authoritative block late in the 4th quarter, completely worth it. From my quick perusal of the CIF site for info on the regionals, I saw that the brackets will be released late tomorrow afternoon. So we'll have an idea pretty quick what on tap for the Dragons, both the girls and the boys...congratulations to Sac High for their section title double dip last night.
