Out & About: Caledonia/LaCrescent

#7 posting 2.25.2008
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1AA EAST SUBSECTION SEMIFINALS
CALEDONIA warriors 46, LA CRESCENT lancers 23

The #1 East seed Caledonia used their pressure defense to secure a spot in the subsection finals 46-23. Caledonia advances to the 1AA East final with a 24-3 record. LaCrescent finishes the year 17-10.

Neither team had success early. Caledonia went to their 8th possession before Cassie Gran made one free throw. The story of the first half was the frigid offense of LaCrescent. They opened the game with 12 possession drought. After a 3 by mysterious #23. LaCrescent immediately sunk back into an 11 possession drought. So it was a 1/24 start for LaCrescent---a 12.5 pp100 rate and a dismal floor percentage of .042. The droughts weren't over either. The Lancers endured another 9 possession drought. Caledonia used their high intenstity pressure to good effect, however their offensive performance did not match their defensive show. They were 65.0 pp100. They did have five straight scores to go up 8-0. At half it was 26-10 Caledonia.

The second half didn't change much. The shooting struggles continued. LaCrescent had droughts of 7, 6, and 8. Dry spells weren't limited to LaCrescent. Caledonia had droughts of 6, and another 6. There was no mystery in the outcome. The fact was there wasn't a lot of scoring in the half court game.

photo: Cassie Gran of Caledonia wrestles with Sarah Olson of LaCrescent for control of the ball. photo by Teas.

key: player (grad year) points, possessions, pp100, floor %
CALEDONIA
STARTERS
Cassie Gran (09) 7, 11, 63.6, .364 tough, but small inside type
Sarah Colleran (08) 9, 11, 81.8, .273 point guard
Brianna Vick (08) 1, 4, 25.0, .250 post
Megan King (09) 7, 13, 53.8, .231 guard
Libby Augedahl (09) 14, 14, 100.0, .500 strong, physical forward/wing. Scored on second chancers, and transition. Is strong enought to throw the skip pass.
BENCH
Laquita Becker (09) 4, 7, 57.1, .286 quick guard
Theresa Ellenz (09) 0, 1, 0.0, .000
Alecia Fruechte (08) 0, 2, 0.0, .000
Aly Meyer (10) 4, 4, 100.0, .500
Lindsay Gran (11) 0, 3, 0.0, .000
Amber Sorenson (11) 0, 2, 0.0, .000
Bobbi Jo Schuttemeier (11) 0, 1, 0.0, .000

LACRESCENT
STARTERS
Leah Albrecht (09) 4, 13, 30.8, .154
Becca McCoy (09) 0, 4, 0.0, .000
Jessie Erdmann (08) 1, 12, 8.3, .083
Sarah Olson (09) 2, 4, 50.0, .250
Stacy Schiltz (10) 2, 6, 33.3, .167
BENCH
Kayla Sandvik (11) 2, 10, 20.0, .100
#23 8, 9, 88.9, .333
Liz Gilbertson (09) 0, 3, 0.0, .000
Kayla Tripp (09) 0, 1, 0.0, .000
#13 2, 1, 200.0, 1.000
Alexis Dorschner (10) 2, 4, 50.0, .250
Kylin Duffy (10) 0, 1, 0.0, .000
Skylar Minegar (10) 0, 3, 0.0, .000
Jenna McDonough (11) 0, 0, 0.0, .000

TRENCH PLAYER
Libby Augedahl

BY THE NUMBERS
Caledonia 46, 73, 63.0, .301
LaCrescent 23, 71, 32.4, .155
made 3s: LaCrescent 2, Caledonia 1
ftm/fta-ft%: Caledonia 9/15-.600; LaCrescent 3/6-.500
bench: LaCrescent 14, Caledonia 8
Caledonia had 12 points in transition, and 10 on second chancers.
LaCrescent had 8 points in transition, and only 2 on second chancers.
To put it another way Caledonia had 8 field goals in the half court game, LaCrescent 5.

DEFENSIVE WRAPS
CALEDONIA
Libby Augedahl 14
Sarah Colleran 8
Megan King 8
Cassie Gran 5
Laquita Becker 4
Alecia Fruechte 3
Brianna Vick 2
Aly Meyer 2
Lindsay Gran 2
Amber Sorenson 2
Theresa Ellenz 1
totals: 51

LA CRESCENT
Sarah Olson 8
Leah Albrecht 5
Jessie Erdmann 4.5
Kayla Sandvik 4
#23 3
Skylar Minegar 2
Liz Gilbertson 1.5
Becca McCoy 1
Stacy Schlitz 1
Alexis Dorschner 1
Kylin Duffy 1
Jenna McDonough 1
Totals: 33

DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
Caledonia used man pressure all over the floor.
LaCrescent stayed in their 2/3
Match ups: (LC off/Cal def) Erdmann/Colleran-Becker; #23/Augedahl; Olson/Vick; Albrecht/King; McCoy/Gran
There was a lot of communication and switching with Caledonia's defense

next up: Subsection 1AA West semis