Out & About: St. Cloud Tech/Moorhead

#7 posting 1.27.2007
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ST. CLOUD TECH tigers 56, MOORHEAD spuds 54

In a key 8AAAA battle for the top seed in the section, St. Cloud Tech edged Moorhead on Terin Euerle's basket on an out of bounds play with 5.8 seconds left in the contest.

Moorhead led early as they established their inside presence with Kassie Hooten. She had four of the first 7 Moorhead points as they led 7-2. SCT went on a 8-0 run to take the lead 10-7. Jordyn Sears had the first five points in the run. SCT was more effective with their possessions, as Moorhead was only able to squeeze one point off as they left 7 points at the line. SCT also took advantage of second chance points as they controlled the offensive boards. SCT had 8 points in the first half on second chancers. The lead hung around six points for most of the rest of the half. Moorhead was able to whittle it down to 21-17 after two free throws by Kelsey Jacobson. SCT pushed it back up to 26-17 for their largest lead in the first half. Hooten ended the scoring with a feed from Jenna Dolence to make it 26-19 at half. Hooten had 7 at half, Sears had 8.

Moorhead came out smoking in the second half scoring 8 of the first 9 times they had possession of the ball. Jacobson nailed a 3 and the run was on. When it was over Moorhead outscored SCT 17-5. Part of the change was a 1/3/1 zone employed by Moorhead. Moorhead grabbed the lead at 15:56 on two free throws by Tricia Vanyo. When the run was over they were up 36-31. Moorhead then went into a five possession drought. SCT figured out the weak spot in the 1/3/1 and started to roll again. They scored 7 of 8 possessions. They took a 46-43 lead on Sears' 3 from the right corner with 7:15 to go. Their full run was 19-7, and they led 50-43 with about four minutes to go. Then it was Moorhead's turn for a run and they converted on five of six possessions. Hooten was doing serious damage in the paint as she had 8 of the 11 points in the 11-4 run. Moorhead never had the lead at this point, but tied it at 52 and 54. Sears missed on a drive with less than 1:30 to go. Moorhead's Vanyo got the rebound. The Spuds worked it around and Vanyo was fouled. She missed both free throws, but Hooten was there for the rebound. She missed and the ball went out of bounds to SCT with 32 seconds left. SCT worked it down and took two time outs at 21 seconds. Sears drove again, but the ball was deflected out of bounds with 8.3 seconds left. On the ensuing out of bounds play Terin Euerle broke hard for the basket from the free throw line and beat her defender. She scored the final points. Moorhead took a time out with 5.8 seconds left. Jacobson was fouled right away, but they were not in the bonus at that point. Moorhead took another time out with 3.1 ticks left. The ball went to Dolence who had a decent look at the 3, but it missed.

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

ST. CLOUD TECH
STARTERS
Jordyn Sears 20, 17, 117.6, .588 quick, good stroke, 3 range, able to use left hand in traffic. moves well without the ball. has a nice cross over and other deceptive moves with the ball. RF: size
Erin Foley 2, 5, 40.0, .200 point guard. did her job defensively on Jacobson. nice positioning. Her name won't be high on the D Wraps, but her defense was more of the denial/frustrating sort.
Micki Seibring 5, 5, 100.0, .400 made a shot from the left wing. also drove and was fouled.
Alyssa Heine 4, 5, 80.0, .400 strong. rebounds. steady.
Terin Euerle 12, 14, 85.7, .429 Had a strong second half with 10 points including the game winner. decent pull up jumper. went coast to coast with d rebound to score. scored off the drive. RF: picked up an offensive foul by lowering shoulder.
BENCH
Kristin Johnson 4, 3, 133.3, .667 big post. decent hands and touch. RF: foot speed up and down the floor, quickness, and positioning on defense, fouled out.
Ali Korf 6, 9, 66.7, .333 has speed, knocked ball from behind in a transition situation saving a lay up. RF: on ballhandling elbow too far away from body. also vision needs iimproving.
Hannah Zwiener 3, 2, 150.0, .500
Bench 0, 1, 0.0, .000 got the technical foul when SCT had possession.

MOORHEAD
STARTERS
Kelsey Jacobson 12, 17, 70.6, .294 was at the point guard slot most of the day. 3 point specialist. their best shooter. RF: more of a "2", needs to develop a left hand on ball handling.
Tricia Vanyo 5, 7, 71.4, .429 scored on a drive. RF: foot speed. close out off balance.
Jenna Dolence 4, 5, 80.0, .400 RF: no block out on the weak side, too tight and was beat by Euerle on the game winner.
Gina Jaroszewski 9, 10, 90.0, .500 the "4" scored in the paint. RF: needs to be more physical. doesn't seal well on offense. too tight to the weak side on defense.
Kassie Hooten 21, 20, 105.0, .550 offensive minded. hooks defenders to free herself for shot. RF: took a shot in the first half just inside the 3 line. only 3 defensive wraps? and they were all in the first half. She needs to put the same energy into getting defensive rebounds.
BENCH
Sarah Peterson 0, 1, 0.0, .000
Sabrina Sam 3, 2, 150.0, .667
Amanda Maddox 0, 0, 0.0, .000

TRENCH PLAYER
Jordyn Sears

BY THE NUMBERS
St. Cloud Tech 56, 61, 91.8, .443
Moorhead 54, 62, 87.1, .435
made 3s: SCT 4, Moorhead 3
made fts: Moorhead 13, SCT 7
bench: St. Cloud Tech 13, Moorhead 3
Both teams were better in the second half. SCT's pp100s went from 78.9 to 107.1; while Moorhead's jumped from 59.4 to 120.7. Moorhead allowed 11 more second chance points including the last four in the second half. A total of 19 points because of failures to block out or not being aggressive on loose ball situations. SCT's man defense limited Moorhead and forced them to do things they may not have wanted. Moorhead did however get it inside to Hooten quite often. But the rest of the time they were working by themselves it seemed. Their offense more of a penetrate and dish.

DEFENSIVE WRAPS
d rebounds, steals, forced turnovers, and blocks leading to offensive possessions
ST. CLOUD TECH
Alyssa Heine 6
Erin Foley 6
Terin Euerle 5
Ali Korf 3
Jordyn Sears 2
Kristin Johnson 1
Hannah Zwiener 1
Micki Seibring 1
totals: 25

MOORHEAD
Gina Jaroszewski 6.5
Jenna Dolence 6
Kelsey Jacobson 4.5
Tricia Vanyo 4
Kassie Hooten 3
Sabrina Sam 2
Amanda Maddux 1
totals: 27

Next up: tomorrow morning. I was going to go the St. Paul Central/Armstrong game, but that game was played in the afternoon. On the schedule I received it was to be played at 7:30 tonight