Out & About: Kingsland/New Ulm Cathedral

#3 posting 7.29.2006
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The University of Minnesota ran a team camp. 21 teams were divided into three divisions. This championship game was between the teams in Pool C and Pool B
First here are the standings
Pool B
Park-Cottage Grove 5-1
Kingsland 4-2
White Bear Lake 4-2
Barneveld, WI 4-2
Hastings 3-3
Cloquet 1-5
Mound-Westonka 0-6
Pool C
New Life 5-1
New Ulm Cathedral 5-1
Osakis 4-2
Maple Grove JV 4-2
Ely 2-4
New Rockford, ND 1-5
Cleveland 0-6

In the play offs the last two standing were Kingsland and New Ulm Cathedral. This could be considered the "A" championship.

Kingsland 38, New Ulm Cathedral 21

In an extremely hot Williams Arena, Kingsland outlasted NUC 38-21. Kala Jensen started the scoring first for Kingsland with four points in possessions 2 & 3. NU Cathedral answered with Kirsten Prunty's basket on their second possession. It was a competitive game early on. The game was tied at 7. NUC held a 9-7 lead after Prunty's drive right down the middle of the lane. Kingsland tied it right up on the next possession with Jessie Oeltjen's free throws. NUC was not to score for the rest of the half--11 straight possessions. Kingsland wasn't ripping it up either as they scored only twice, but both were 3 point shots and they led 15-9 at half. Jensen had 7 at halftime.

As both teams played zone it was going to come down to who could move the ball and find the open shots better than the other. Kingsland was the answer to both questions. They connected for four 3s in the second half, and seven for the game. They definitely had more pop and zip on the ball. NUC had one 3 for the half and entire game. The drought outside again affected play inside as NUC had a 9 possession drought. Kingsland had an 11-0 run during the dry spell. The one bright spot for NUC was the play of Kirsten Prunty who had 8 of the 12 points in the second half.

Coach Fenske if you have the names of these players email me.

NUMBERS EXPLAINED
player, points, possessions, pp100, floor %

KINGSLAND
STARTERS
Paisley Larson 8, 8, 100.0, .375 point guard, 3 point shot.
Kala Jensen 12, 12, 100.0, .500 decent on perimeter. forced to do a little inside work, but can hit distance shots.
#15 3, 3, 100.0, .333
#24 3, 1, 300.0, 1.000 always seemed to be on the steal or rebound. had five steals on the day. good hustle. Hit her only possession for a 3. RF: forced passes at times.
#44 0, 1, 0.0, .000
BENCH
Jessie Oeltjen 2, 4, 50.0, .250
#40 2, 3, 66.7, .333 finger rolled for 2.
#30 6, 2, 300.0, 1.000 canned two 3s.
#12 0, 2, 0.0, .000
#50 1, 1, 100.0, 1.000
#3 0, 1, 0.0, .000
#55 1, 1, 100.0, 1.000
#51 0, 1, 0.0, .000

NEW ULM CATHEDRAL
STARTERS
Sally Schreiber 1, 3, 33.3, .333
Kirsten, Prunty 12, 11, 109.1, .545 went right up the middle for two without any stopping her. point guard.
Sam Dengerud 5, 7, 71.4, .286 had a 3.
Katie Larson 2, 2, 100.0, .500
Meghan Schwartz 1, 6, 16.7, .167 RF: tried to force passes into the lane.
BENCH
Kaitlin DuChene 0, 6, 0.0, .000
Tricia Bjerke 0, 3, 0.0, .000
Katelyn Schwartz 0, 1, 0.0, .000
Anna Griebel 0, 1, 0.0, .000

BY THE NUMBERS
Kingsland 38, 40, 95.0, .425
New Ulm Cathedral 21, 40, 52.5, .275

Kingsland zipped the ball around on offense. On defense they initiated press & traps. They were the ones that set tempo and pressure and therefore came out on top. They limited NUC to only one shot, if that, on each possession. The heat probably had effect on shots, shots taken, and other decisions. Things seemed to move a tad slower.

Next up: the "AA" Championship with Bismarck Century and Hopkins