Out & About: North Tartan Crosby/Omaha Lakers

#3 posting 7.26.2008
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NORTH TARTAN MELTDOWN TOURNAMENT
Platinum Pool Play
Bloomington Kennedy
NORTH TARTAN CROSBY 49, OMAHA LAKERS 34

This is the first of four reports from the Meltdown Tournament. This was the first AAU tournament in Minnesota in over six weeks. Today was spent on the platinum division with the theme running throughout the charting Minnesota vs other states. Minnesota was 4-0 in the games I watched.

First a word about the gyms---it is safe to wear shorts, and you can forget about bringing a jacket.

In game one (that I charted), it was North Tartan Crosby rallying to beat the Omaha Lakers 49-34. NTC trailed 21-13 in the first half before finishing the half with a 14-2 run to lead 27-25 at the break. NTC continued their advantage in the second half with a 15-4 run (a combined 29-6 NTC advantage over the two halves). That was a 1/19 stretch for the Lakers or an arctic .053 floor %. The Lakers had droughts during the contest of 9, 9, and 8. Janae Burich led NTC with 13 points.

You can see the entire North Tartan Crosby vs Omaha Lakers photo gallery at kevinanderson.photostockplus.com

I will get back to the details on Sunday (including the trench player)

key: player, school, points, possessions, pp100, floor %
NORTH TARTAN CROSBY
Devyn Smith, Roseville 12, 9, 133.3, .556 perimeter, made a couple of 3s.
Janae Burich, Roseville 13, 11, 118.2, .545 6-5 post. controlled the middle. OL didn't attack inside as much later in the game.
Sarah Hendricks, Cretin-Derham Hall 4, 9, 44.4, .222 perimeter shooter. has the size on the outside, needs to get more active on defense
Kelsey Evans, Willmar 2, 7, 28.6, .143 perimeter. had two travel calls.
Kaiya Sygulla, Lakeville North 2, 8, 25.0, .125 point guard. needs to pass with feet on the ground.
BENCH
Kendra Harris, Cretin-Derham Hall 5, 11, 45.5, .273 rugged post. strong, physical rebounder.
Miranda Speckel, Buffalo 11, 10, 110.0, .600 perimeter. hit some corner shots. was active on the offensive boards. also had a nice pull up.

OMAHA LAKERS
STARTERS
Mikayla Wolf, Blair 7, 19, 36.8, .158 perimeter. 3 shooter that was not on.
Mercedes Morgan, Bellevue East 10, 13, 76.9, .385 strong quick jumping post. outlets the ball quickly.
Sydney Lawton, Blair 2, 6, 33.3, .167 thinner post. did get 7 d stops.
Jes Bolgar, Papillion-LaVista South 0, 8, 0.0, .000 guard. contributed more on defense than offense
Lindsay Munger, Omaha Marian 11, 7, 157.1, .857 point guard. scored off the drive and had five points off her defense.
BENCH
Melissa Thompson, Papillion-LaVista South 0, 3, 0.0, .000 post
Jesse Watts, Millard North 4, 9, 44.4, .222 post

TRENCH PLAYER
Janae Burich

BY THE NUMBERS
North Tartan Crosby 49, 65, 75.4, .369
Omaha Lakers 34, 65, 52.3, .262
made 3s/&1s: OL 2/2, NTC 2/0
ftm/fta-ft%: NTC 7/14; OL 8/16-.500
bench: NTC 16, OL 4

DEFENSIVE WRAPS
NORTH TARTAN CROSBY
Kendra Harris 7
Janae Burich 6.5
Sarah Hendricks 6
Miranda Speckel 5.5
Kaiya Sygulla 5
Kelsey Evans 4
Devyn Smith 4
totals: 38

OMAHA LAKERS
Jes Bolgar 8
Sydney Lawton 7
Mercedes Morgan 7
Lindsay Munger 6.5
Jesse Watts 5.5
Mikala Wolf 3
Melissa Thompson 1
totals: 38

ASSISTS
NORTH TARTAN CROSBY
Sarah Hendricks 4
Kaiya Sygulla 4
Devyn Smith 3
Janae Burich 2
Kendra Harris 2
Kelsey Evans 1
Miranda Speckel 1
totals: 17

OMAHA LAKERS
Lindsay Munger 3
Mikala Wolf 2
Mercedes Morgan 2
Jes Bolgar 2
Sydney Lawton 1
Jesse Watts 1
totals: 11

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