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Execution problems plague Golden Bears in HHC loss
Posted by Ronald Williams on
Nov 27 2011
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04:00PM PST
By Jeff Brown
Sports editor
To take the next step back to competitiveness in the Hoosier Heritage Conference, Shelbyville needs to quit being its own worst enemy.
With the talent gap between the top HHC teams and the Golden Bears finally narrowing, the Lady Golden Bears need to step up their own execution. On Friday against visiting Pendleton Heights, Shelbyville committed seven first-quarter turnovers and hit just 2 of 10 shots from the field to fall behind by double digits.
Things only got mildly better from there.
Kenzie Gustin scored a game-high 17 points to lead the Lady Arabians to a 61-32 victory at William L. Garrett Gymnasium.
Pendleton Heights not only shot 43 percent from the field, but connected on 8 of 16 three-pointers to improve to 5-0 (2-0 HHC) this season. Shelbyville is now 2-2 (0-1 HHC), and has lost 27 straight conference games.
“It’s frustrating because we know we’re so much better than that,” said Shelbyville coach Amanda Norris after the loss. “We all know we’re capable of playing so much better.”
The Lady Arabians hit four 3s in the first quarter, including a pair by Quincey Gary and Tiffany Wertz in the final 80 seconds to establish a 17-5 lead at the first break.
Shelbyville worked its way to the free-throw line in the second quarter and that kept the deficit manageable. Riley Achenbach hit four free throws in the final 41 seconds after drawing fouls while aggressively driving to the basket.
Gustin followed with a drive and score just before the halftime buzzer to make it 35-19.
“We put together a pretty detailed scouting report. The games we scouted, I don’t think Pendleton Heights played as well as they did against us,” said Norris. “They ran extremely hard. They cut precisely. They’re execution was much better than in the game we saw. On the other hand, we didn’t do anything we wanted to do.”
Pendleton Heights hit three more 3s in the third quarter and outscored Shelbyville 13-6.
“I believe this is a defensive let down, not an offensive let down,” said Norris. “We have to play defense for our offense to go smoothly. When we don’t play defense, we try to play individual offense, and that’s not the way we’ll win games.”
Raven Hibbard hit a pair of 3s, and led Shelbyville in scoring with eight points. Chelsey Skipton and Ashley Bush each had six points. Achenbach and Allison Gobel finished with five points apiece.
Shelbyville was 9 of 34 from the field, including 2 of 14 from the 3-point arc.
Gary finished with 14 points for Pendleton Heights. Kelsey Hubble had 11 points and five rebounds.
With junior guard Megan Fix out with a concussion, Shelbyville’s junior varsity team utilized just five players over the final three quarters and overtime Friday against Pendleton Heights.
Achenbach played the first quarter of the JV game then stepped aside to let Megan Limecooly, Kay Brokering, Allyson Conner, Taylor Pierce and Kiersten Macklin finish the game. And they almost pulled out a win.
Morgan Hubble grabbed a rebound and scored just as time expired in the fourth quarter to tie the game at 29-29.
Sarah Dixon hit a 3-pointer with 25 seconds left in overtime to give Pendleton Heights a 34-31 victory.
Dixon had a game-high 14 points.
Pierce led Shelbyville (2-2) with 10 points. Brokering finished with nine.
“Our JV gave a great effort,” said Norris.
With the talent gap between the top HHC teams and the Golden Bears finally narrowing, the Lady Golden Bears need to step up their own execution. On Friday against visiting Pendleton Heights, Shelbyville committed seven first-quarter turnovers and hit just 2 of 10 shots from the field to fall behind by double digits.
Things only got mildly better from there.
Kenzie Gustin scored a game-high 17 points to lead the Lady Arabians to a 61-32 victory at William L. Garrett Gymnasium.
“It’s frustrating because we know we’re so much better than that,” said Shelbyville coach Amanda Norris after the loss. “We all know we’re capable of playing so much better.”
The Lady Arabians hit four 3s in the first quarter, including a pair by Quincey Gary and Tiffany Wertz in the final 80 seconds to establish a 17-5 lead at the first break.
Shelbyville worked its way to the free-throw line in the second quarter and that kept the deficit manageable. Riley Achenbach hit four free throws in the final 41 seconds after drawing fouls while aggressively driving to the basket.
Gustin followed with a drive and score just before the halftime buzzer to make it 35-19.
“We put together a pretty detailed scouting report. The games we scouted, I don’t think Pendleton Heights played as well as they did against us,” said Norris. “They ran extremely hard. They cut precisely. They’re execution was much better than in the game we saw. On the other hand, we didn’t do anything we wanted to do.”
Pendleton Heights hit three more 3s in the third quarter and outscored Shelbyville 13-6.
“I believe this is a defensive let down, not an offensive let down,” said Norris. “We have to play defense for our offense to go smoothly. When we don’t play defense, we try to play individual offense, and that’s not the way we’ll win games.”
Raven Hibbard hit a pair of 3s, and led Shelbyville in scoring with eight points. Chelsey Skipton and Ashley Bush each had six points. Achenbach and Allison Gobel finished with five points apiece.
Shelbyville was 9 of 34 from the field, including 2 of 14 from the 3-point arc.
Gary finished with 14 points for Pendleton Heights. Kelsey Hubble had 11 points and five rebounds.
With junior guard Megan Fix out with a concussion, Shelbyville’s junior varsity team utilized just five players over the final three quarters and overtime Friday against Pendleton Heights.
Achenbach played the first quarter of the JV game then stepped aside to let Megan Limecooly, Kay Brokering, Allyson Conner, Taylor Pierce and Kiersten Macklin finish the game. And they almost pulled out a win.
Morgan Hubble grabbed a rebound and scored just as time expired in the fourth quarter to tie the game at 29-29.
Sarah Dixon hit a 3-pointer with 25 seconds left in overtime to give Pendleton Heights a 34-31 victory.
Dixon had a game-high 14 points.
Pierce led Shelbyville (2-2) with 10 points. Brokering finished with nine.
“Our JV gave a great effort,” said Norris.
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