Out & About: Litchfield/Glencoe-Silver Lake

#10 posting 2.12.2007
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LITCHFIELD dragons 60,
GLENCOE-SILVER LAKE panthers 49

In a Wright County Conference match up it was Litchfield beating conference leader Glencoe-Silver Lake 60-49. Early in the season GSL beat Litchfield 38-32. With the win Litchfield is now 8-6 in the conference which puts them in 5th place. GSL is now 9-3 in the Wright County. Overall GSL is 13-8, while Litchfield is 14-8.

Litchfield scored right off the bat on a lay up off the tip by Emily Davis. They did trail once in the game at 6-4 after a Hali Haukos score on an out of bounds play, but that was the end of GSL's leads. On the next Litchfield possession Brittany Euerle scored and that started a 5/6 possession string with Davis notching four and Anna Brusewitz matching her on a 10-4 run. Four of those scores were the result of assists as Litchfield ran their offense and looked to go inside. On the other score Davis scored at the line. Litchfield had another spurt with a 6/7 scoring sequence on a 13-4 run. Jamie Wollin had 6 in this run. The assist factor was working its magic for Litchfield with four more. On the other two Wollin had a steal and unassisted lay up, while Brusewitz scored on a put back. GSL was trying to create off the dribble. Of the 7 GSL scores 4 were assisted. Of the 14 Litchfield scores 11 had assists tied to them. At half it was 29-14.

Litchfield had more of the same in the second half. GSL did manage to get the score down to a 13 point margin 41-28 with 9:30 left. Litch then went on a 7-2 run for their high water mark of 48-30 with 8:00 left. A sense of urgency took over for GSL at this point. They scored 19 points in the last 6 minutes and closed with a 19-12 run. In fact in the last minute GSL scored 9 points with three consecutive 3s, the first two by Brittany Hallahan. If a team averaged 9 points a minute over 36 minutes they would have 324 points for the game. Even with all the offensive fireworks GSL only got within 8. Litchfield closed out with 6 straight scoring possessions with all of their points coming at the line. Davis cashed in for 7 points at the line in the last 1:08. Davis finished the night with 25 points.

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

LITCHFIELD
STARTERS
Jamie Wollin 10, 8, 125,0, .625 makes good decisions. passed up a shot when it wasn't just right and hit player in the lane for basket. made shot from the left corner. defensively picked up 6 steals. had 6 assists. has good vision. RF: speed compared to other top level guards.
Emily Davis 25, 23, 108.7, .565 good release. has decent size, decent frame. can move. picked up 6 defensive boards. cashed in at the line. RF: picked up traveling call, came in too flat on a transition basket once.
Anna Brusewitz 12, 8, 150.0, .750 worked inside. moved well on offense. crashes offensive boards. scored in the paint. RF; wasn;t square on a shot.
Brittany Euerle 9, 12, 75.0, .333 3 range. guarded Haukos. good size. perimeter. RF: changed shot to avoid contact. general ball handling.
Courtney Euerle 4, 3, 133.3, .667 can jump. has 3 range. good size. RF: can be faked off her feet on defense. needs seasoning.
BENCH
Abby Goraczkowski 0, 1, 0.0, .000
Kirsten Rosenow 0, 1, 0.0, .000
Stephanie Vinar 0, 2, 0.0, .000
Emily Veto 0, 0, 0.0, .000

GLENCOE-SILVER LAKE
STARTERS
Megan Mickolichek 4, 11, 36.4, .182 good athlete. active defensively, physical and gets after boards. RF: needs to work on ball handling/catching. Likes to spin. needs to finish chip shots.
Amanda Kinzler 0, 3, 0.0, .000 RF: likes to spin.
Jamie Mickolichek 2, 2, 100.0, .500 post type player. RF: not a factor on offense.
Hali Haukos 14, 18, 77.8, .389 point guard. looks to drive to the glass. Will kick out, had assists. had a face mask on to protect nose. can hit pull up jumper. RF: elbow gets got too far away from body on the dribble. some times off balance. is not a true point guard.
Brittany Thiesfeld 12, 12, 100.0, .500 moves with out the ball, back cuts. runs the floor. has ups. RF: wasn't that visible in the first half. Had 2 points in the first half. needs to play with that energy full game.
BENCH
Stephanie Fischer 11, 9, 122.2, .556 crashes offensive boards. has 3 range.
Brittany Hallahan 6, 3, 200.0, .667 in last minute drained two 3s. RF: needs to play with that urgency all game.

TRENCH PLAYER
Emily Davis

BY THE NUMBERS
Litchfield 60, 58, 103.4, .517
Glencoe-Silver Lake 49, 58, 84.5, .397
made 3s: GSL 4, Litchfield 2
made fts: Litchfield 14, GSL 3
bench: GSL 17, Litchfield 0
Litchfield has good size on the perimeter with all five starters 5-10 or bigger. They ran their offense and looked for good shots. There may have been one possession where they didn't take the best shot available. Most of the shots also were in the paint as they ran their flex cuts against the man to good effect. GSL was either screened off or caught behind. With GSL their late game offensive execution was strong. Here is the how the game moved for them:
GSL 1st half +12 minutes: 30, 46, 65.2, .326
GSL last 6 minutes: 19, 12, 158.3, .667
GSL only made three 3s and they need to get to the line more often.

DEFENSIVE WRAPS
d rebounds, steals, forced turnovers, and blocks leading to offensive possessions
LITCHFIELD
Emily Davis 8
Jamie Wollin 7
Brittany Euerle 5
Anna Brusewitz 5
Courtney Euerle 3
Abby Goraczkowski 1
Emily Veto 1
totals: 30

GSL
Megan Mickolichek 6
Brittany Thiesfeld 4
Jamie Mickolichek 4
Amanda Kinzler 3
Hali Haukos 2
Stephanie Fischer 2
totals: 21

Next up: tomorrow morning