Out & About: Swish/Summit Blue

#6 posting 5.8.2007
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This game took place on Sunday, May 6
Skyview AAU Tournament, Oakdale MN
16u 9th place game
SWISH 49, SUMMIT BLUE 42

The Swish took the 9th place contest at the Skyview tournament. I had previously put this out on Gabcast thinking that this was a quarterfinal game. The tournament changed the format and it was, in reality, a 9th place game.
Missing in action in this contest for the Swish was Andrea Hagberg. She had a prom the night before and a religious event on Sunday.

Summit got off to a slow start with a 1/9 offensive sequence early and trailed Swish 11-4. Megan Zillmer had two consecutive transition lay ups off missed Summit shots. Aaryn Booker for Summit scored five in a row including an "& 1" to narrow the game to 11-9. Booker had 7 of the Summit points at this point. Summit reclaimed the lead (they led 2-1) with a Kovalchuk basket 14-13. Jordyn Sears answered with two free throws which started a 10-2 run. The Summit had a 1/9 offensive sequence again which didn't help their cause. The Swish held a 23-16 lead with Sears providing four of the points in the run. Summit added four more to close to 23-20 at half.

Summit spent the rest of the second half trying to climb back into the lead, but the lead remained within eyeshot, but tantalizingly out of reach. They closed to 30-29 on a Kovalchuk basket with 10 minutes left. Brooke Dunsmoore had a rebound basket to give the Swish some insurance room. Summit didn't have the long stretch drought, or dry spell, like the first half, but a four possession period put them in the hole 36-29. With 1:48 left Summit closed to 42-40 with two free throws by Megan Erlandson. Sears once again answered the threat with two free throws of her own. The Swish handled the late game situations with four straight scores, all at the line. Swish had their win 49-42.

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

SWISH
STARTERS
Megan Bates, Brainerd 5, 10, 50.0, .300 Quick outlet. runs floor. RF: passing decisions are advertised.
Jordyn Sears, St. Cloud Tech 18, 19, 94.7, .421 works to get body in position. Drew fouls by being aware of surroundings. likes to go. gets to the line. has 3 range. picked up a blocked shot. RF: angle flat on drives some times. likes to spin, and needs to use left hand more.
Erin Foley, St. Cloud Tech 5, 6, 83.3, .500 quick, defense kept Summit 3 shooters off balance. can find open players.
Brooke Dunsmoore, St. Cloud Apollo 6, 3, 200.0, 1.000 keeps the ball nice and high on offensive rebound. works defensive boards with good position. RF: needs way more than three possessions. Has to seal better. size post hs.
Hannah Zwiener, St. Cloud Tech 1, 7, 14.3, .143 defensively caused disruptions.
BENCH
Megan Zillmer, Crosby-Ironton 10, 10, 100.0, .500 runs the floor. has good stops and pull up.
Lisa Lymburner, Hinckley/Finlayson 4, 5, 80.0, .400 lefty. can score in, but prefers out.
Kristen Johnson, St. Cloud Tech 0, 0, 0.0, .000 limited time. RF: needs to get up to speed.

SUMMIT BLUE
STARTERS
Emily DeWitt, Centennial 0, 6, 0.0, .000 RF: no three game to showcase today.
Megan Erlandson, Concordia -Roseville 6, 4, 150.0, .750 point guard. when down late started to look more for shot. RF: needs to establish herself earlier in the game.
Tanya Dickey, White Bear Lake 5, 7, 71.4, .286 guard. Has diamond shaped calves. RF: another of the 3 bombers in the hangar. only one field goal all game.
Anna Kovalchuck, De La Salle 9, 16, 56.3, .313 can play in and out. prefers out. developing a drive game. RF: needs to finish in traffic with contact.
Gina Lang, Forest Lake 2, 6, 33.3, .167 active defensively. had a nice interior wrap around pass for an assist. RF: shot has a slow release.
BENCH
Alex Bledsoe, De La Salle 0, 0, 0.0, .000 guard
Kristen Robatcek, North Branch 4, 2, 200.0, 1.000
Anna Norby, Mounds View 0, 1, 0.0, .000
Aaryn Booker, De La Salle 16, 19, 84.2, .368 strong, will rip balls away from opponents (and maybe their arm too). Can focus and score when getting jostled, bumped. and fouled. had 9 points on second chancers. RF: needs to work on ball skills in the open court.

TRENCH PLAYER
Jordyn Sears

BY THE NUMBERS
Swish 49, 60, 81.7, .417
Summit Blue 42, 61, 68.9, .328
made 3s: Swish 2, Summit Blue 1
made fts: Swish 14, Summit Blue 9
bench: Summit Blue 20, Swish 14
The Summit earlier in the spring season and they were ripping the nets then. On this day it was almost 180 degrees different. Against Randolph WI the Summit Blue checked in with 111.86 pp100 in a 74-66 loss. In this game they only reached 68.9 pp100. The numbers were down for most of the teams. The Swish did go up from the first time I saw them. Their first game against Southern Minne Magic White was 64.1 pp100. They added 20 points to that margin to 81.7 pp100. A big factor in this game was the 3s. Summit Blue feasted on 3s against Randolph with six, and were limited to one lone trey here. They never could shake free from the man defense.

DEFENSIVE WRAPS
SWISH
Jordyn Sears 8
Brooke Dunsmoore 8
Erin Foley 4
Megan Bates 3.5
Lisa Lymburner 2
Hannah Zweiner 1.5
Megan Zillmer 1
Totals: 28

SUMMIT BLUE
Gina Lang 7.5
Aaryn Booker 6
Emily DeWitt 5
Megan Erlandson 1
Tanya Dickey 1
Alex Bledsoe 1
Anna Norby 1
totals: 25

There are still a couple of Out & Abouts to come later this week and they all involve the MN Stars with Borowicz vs Smith tomorrow and Borowicz vs Hested on Thursday.

Next up: tomorrow morning