Out & About: Benilde-St. Margaret's/Chisago Lakes

#8 posting 12.12.2006
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BENILDE-ST. MARGARET'S red knights 64,
CHISAGO LAKES wildcats 40

Kachine Alexander put on a show scoring 31 points, including #1000, in a lopsided affair at Benilde. She had 15 in the first half, 16 in the second, althougth she sat for last 6 minutes.

The BSM pressure got to CL early. The first two times they touched the ball it ended up in BSM's hands before midcourt. CL tied the game at 4 on the two consecutive baskets by Kori Sells. CL's only lead came on an NBA 3 by Jess Peterson at 7-6. CL had a 10 possession drought in which BSM had an 11-0 run to make it 21-9 before CL scored again. Both teams attacked the paint. CL more posting up manuevers, BSM slash and dish. BSM led at half 27-19.

CL was able to cut the margin early in the second half to 27-22, but then the levees broke and BSM scored on five consecutive possessions in a 12-0 run to turn the game into a route. Alexander had 8 of those points during the run. CL was able to string their own five possession scoring streak on a 9-6 run, but didn't really prevent BSM from scoring. There was a scoring sequence where BSM was 11/13, including six in a row at one point. Alexander had another 8 in that outburst. That run was 21-8. By that time the benches were emptied.

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

BENILDE-SM
STARTERS
Madelon Morin 1, 3, 33.3, .333 RF: needs to finish inside
Brittany Mayclin 1, 8, 12.5, .000 point guard. nifty passes inside to Alexander and others. Good vision. gets the ball down court quickly. had 7 assists in the second half. RF: Needs to better balance on shot. Passing execution in the half court game can be soft (cross court) and sloppy.
Colleen Ruane 10, 5, 200.0, 1.000 smooth shooter. baseline short corner shooter. long limbs. moves to the ball. also drives. crashes offensive boards. RF: needs to gain strength.
Kachine Alexander 31, 21, 147.6, .667 explosive leaper and good first step. good timing. aggressive. uses body well. quick hands, good anticipation on defense. starting to work on outside shot more than I saw last year. physical. guarded Corradi and Peterson at times. good footwork and strong. hit runners, transition, pull ups, almost 3s (foot on line) good at drawing the charge. RF: awareness of where the 3 line is; awareness of who is behind her (stripped once, but teammates need to be vocal).
Danielle Bennett-Curry 2, 6, 33.3, .167 good jumper. had a strong defensive showing in the second half. gets decent position. post player. RF: not a post player post HS. Needs to finish shot in traffic
BENCH
Mary Riverso 6, 6, 100.0, .500 had a nice stop and pop. RF: needs to gain strength
Samantha Morgan 8, 5, 160.0, .800 tough nosed player. Street fighter. knows where the basket is. anticipates well on the press. RF: not full strength...yet
Rachel Tondryk 3, 7, 42.9, .286 scored a put back. RF: needs to finish wide open lay ups.
Jessica Palkert 2, 2, 100.0, .500
Ellie Hawkinson 0, 1, 0.0, .000
Kira Schneider 0, 2, 0.0, .000

CHISAGO LAKES
STARTERS
Kayla Schultz 5, 6, 83.3, .500 RF: needs to finish the transition lay up.
Courtney Skoog 5, 8, 62.5, .250 canned a 3, had all points by half. RF: passing execution, faking. staring down pass.
Megan Corradi 4, 17, 23.5, .176 point guard. good instincts on offense. decent balance on shot. can score on pull up jumper. RF: needs to handle the ball with confidence when being pressured. needs to finish shot. short on shot, needs more leg bend. forced and stared down passes
Kori Sells 12, 12, 100.0, .417 elbow shot, crashes offensive boards. paint player. RF: needs to make quicker decisions in the paint--led to a 3 second call.
Jess Peterson 11, 11, 100.0, .455 strong inside body. looked to shoot 3. and canned a deep one. RF: picked up offensive foul on the block. stared down passes.
BENCH
Jaime Tschida 0, 5, 0.0, .000
Brenna Coyle 2, 2, 100.0, .500 RF: hands, needs to develop quickness.
Cassie Trandahl 1, 3, 33.3, .333
Kristen Tengwall 0, 1, 0.0, .000

TRENCH PLAYER
Kachine Alexander

BY THE NUMBERS
Benilde-SM 64, 66, 97.0, .470
Chisago Lakes 40, 65, 61.5, .308
made 3s: CL 2, BSM 0
Made FTs: BSM 8, CL 8
Bench: BSM 17, CL 3
Transition scores: BSM 9, CL 2 (after the deep bench was in)
defending AAA champ Benilde is not at full strength yet. Williams is out (see below) and Morgan is working her way back into the line up from her knee injury. They did have the 5th best floor % I have seen this year. Their pressure and quickness bother CL all night. CL put themselves in bad positions during the press and players moved away from the ball as the players stopped their dribble.

DEFENSIVE WRAPS
defensive boards, steals, forced turnovers, and blocks leading to offensive possessions
BENILDE-SM
Kachine Alexander 9
Danielle Bennett-Curry 7
Colleen Raune 5
Brittany Mayclin 3
Rachel Tondryk 3
Madelon Morin 3
Mary Riverso 3
Samantha Morgan 2
Jessica Palkert 1
Jessy Tumini 1
Ellie Hawkinson 1

CHISAGO LAKES
Jess Peterson 5
Kayla Schultz 5
Megan Corradi 4
Kori Sells 3
Jaime Tschida 3
Courtney Skoog 2
Summer Young 2
Brenna Coyle 1
Cassie Trandahl 1

INJURY
BSM's Latoya Williams had a high ankle sprain in the Spring Lake Park game and has been out of the line up since. She should be back in time for the Hopkins tournament.

next up: special report Osseo/Champlin Park