July 23, 2014 at 2:10 p.m.
Night off for nets (12/13/06)
JCHS girls basketball
Night off for nets (12/13/06)
By By RAY COONEY-
HARTFORD CITY - At least Blackford High School won't need to worry about purchasing new nets for a while.
The twine wasn't tickled too often Tuesday night as the Patriots and host Bruins combined to shoot a paltry 21 percent. Still, the Jay County girls basketball team dominated Blackford for a 43-13 victory.
Both teams struggled out of the gate, a pattern which continued throughout the game.
Blackford (1-7) missed its first four field goal attempts and had six turnovers before Kaleigh Kemp made the game's first field goal at the 3:40 mark of the opening quarter.
The Patriots (8-1) fell in love with the 3-point shot and found themselves trailing 5-4 before finally getting a field goal to fall after nearly seven futile minutes. They missed their first 13 shots, 10 of which were from long distance, before Abby Loy hit a 3-pointer with 1:14 on the clock off the first of Dana Horn's game-high four assists.
"I felt that Blackford came out with a lot more intensity than we did," said JCHS coach Kirk Comer. "You're going to have games where you don't shoot the ball very well, but you should never have a game where you don't have the intensity on the defensive end and I thought for the first 14 minutes of the game that's what you saw out of us. Give Blackford credit. They came out and they battled and they played a lot harder than we did for 14 minutes."
The Patriots finished the opening quarter 2-of-18 (11 percent) from the field. Thirteen of those shots were 3-pointers, and they launched 26 times from long distance in all.
"Obviously everything was from the 3-point line," Comer said, after his team shot just under 25 percent for the game. "But by the same token our post players have got to get open in there. ... We weren't doing a very good job of getting open, and when they did get open we weren't getting them the ball. ... We're not going to be able to go through our schedule and play that type of basketball and be very effective."
But two of Jay County's last three long balls in the opening quarter went in - the second by Whitney Homan off another Horn assist - and it took control of the game during the final two minutes of the second quarter. Holding just a 15-8 lead, it pulled away by scoring the final eight points of the first half. It added a 13-0 third quarter for a 21-0 run.
The Patriots held Blackford without a field goal for nearly three full quarters - 23:41 - and scoreless for a span of 10:32. The Bruins made just 3-of-26 field goals for the game.
"We started out and played pretty well. We did what we wanted to do. But our youth really showed," said Blackford coach Bruce Ruble, who has no seniors on his roster. "Every time we made a mistake they scored and when your kids are as young as we are you try not to fault them for it.
"We weren't in a panic mode," he added of his team's ability to stay in the game early. "We've done this a couple of games now where we get down and they score a couple of baskets and ... they think they need to make everything up all at once and they start rushing things."
The Bruins turned the ball over 36 times, including 21 in the opening half, which led 35 more field goal attempts for Jay County.
Kaelee Keller's nine points for the Patriots were a game high.
Homan added eight points, and Loy scored seven.
Three points apiece from Liz Kilty and Jessica Christie led Blackford.
The only advantage of the game for the Bruins came on the glass, where they grabbed 43 rebounds to Jay County's 38. Holly Musselman finished with 10 rebounds, Kirby Glancy had seven and Kolby Coy and Victoria Lee each added six.
For the second straight game a pair of guards led the Patriot effort on the glass. Homan, who stands 5-foot-7, totaled seven rebounds, and the 5-foot-5 Horn added six.
Junior varsity
Jay County pitched two scoreless quarters as it topped the Bruins 44-6 to stay perfect on the season.
Pazia Speed racked up 12 of her game-high 16 points in the first half for the Patriots, who had a 13-point lead after the opening quarter and held Blackford scoreless in the second and fourth. Brittany Mann added nine points, and Gina Muhlenkamp scored seven.
Sam Swenson, Jessica Clifton and Whitney Watkins each scored two points for the Bruins.[[In-content Ad]]
The twine wasn't tickled too often Tuesday night as the Patriots and host Bruins combined to shoot a paltry 21 percent. Still, the Jay County girls basketball team dominated Blackford for a 43-13 victory.
Both teams struggled out of the gate, a pattern which continued throughout the game.
Blackford (1-7) missed its first four field goal attempts and had six turnovers before Kaleigh Kemp made the game's first field goal at the 3:40 mark of the opening quarter.
The Patriots (8-1) fell in love with the 3-point shot and found themselves trailing 5-4 before finally getting a field goal to fall after nearly seven futile minutes. They missed their first 13 shots, 10 of which were from long distance, before Abby Loy hit a 3-pointer with 1:14 on the clock off the first of Dana Horn's game-high four assists.
"I felt that Blackford came out with a lot more intensity than we did," said JCHS coach Kirk Comer. "You're going to have games where you don't shoot the ball very well, but you should never have a game where you don't have the intensity on the defensive end and I thought for the first 14 minutes of the game that's what you saw out of us. Give Blackford credit. They came out and they battled and they played a lot harder than we did for 14 minutes."
The Patriots finished the opening quarter 2-of-18 (11 percent) from the field. Thirteen of those shots were 3-pointers, and they launched 26 times from long distance in all.
"Obviously everything was from the 3-point line," Comer said, after his team shot just under 25 percent for the game. "But by the same token our post players have got to get open in there. ... We weren't doing a very good job of getting open, and when they did get open we weren't getting them the ball. ... We're not going to be able to go through our schedule and play that type of basketball and be very effective."
But two of Jay County's last three long balls in the opening quarter went in - the second by Whitney Homan off another Horn assist - and it took control of the game during the final two minutes of the second quarter. Holding just a 15-8 lead, it pulled away by scoring the final eight points of the first half. It added a 13-0 third quarter for a 21-0 run.
The Patriots held Blackford without a field goal for nearly three full quarters - 23:41 - and scoreless for a span of 10:32. The Bruins made just 3-of-26 field goals for the game.
"We started out and played pretty well. We did what we wanted to do. But our youth really showed," said Blackford coach Bruce Ruble, who has no seniors on his roster. "Every time we made a mistake they scored and when your kids are as young as we are you try not to fault them for it.
"We weren't in a panic mode," he added of his team's ability to stay in the game early. "We've done this a couple of games now where we get down and they score a couple of baskets and ... they think they need to make everything up all at once and they start rushing things."
The Bruins turned the ball over 36 times, including 21 in the opening half, which led 35 more field goal attempts for Jay County.
Kaelee Keller's nine points for the Patriots were a game high.
Homan added eight points, and Loy scored seven.
Three points apiece from Liz Kilty and Jessica Christie led Blackford.
The only advantage of the game for the Bruins came on the glass, where they grabbed 43 rebounds to Jay County's 38. Holly Musselman finished with 10 rebounds, Kirby Glancy had seven and Kolby Coy and Victoria Lee each added six.
For the second straight game a pair of guards led the Patriot effort on the glass. Homan, who stands 5-foot-7, totaled seven rebounds, and the 5-foot-5 Horn added six.
Junior varsity
Jay County pitched two scoreless quarters as it topped the Bruins 44-6 to stay perfect on the season.
Pazia Speed racked up 12 of her game-high 16 points in the first half for the Patriots, who had a 13-point lead after the opening quarter and held Blackford scoreless in the second and fourth. Brittany Mann added nine points, and Gina Muhlenkamp scored seven.
Sam Swenson, Jessica Clifton and Whitney Watkins each scored two points for the Bruins.[[In-content Ad]]
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