The day of the blow-out is upon us. The victorious teams all had leads of 10+ points going into halftime.
WW 83 St 61 WW joins Platteville on the top of Mt. WIAC. Stout actually led 20-7 halfway through the first half, but they were brought back down to earth with a WW 33-9 run for the remainder of the half. The story of the game has to be Matt Goodwin. He went off for 45 BARPS, 33 of them being points. That included a lights out 8-13 performance from three. He has completely elevated his game to a new level since Perry went down and has to be the main reason why WW is still right in the chase. Stout played without Jerrel “E-Matt” Enerson-Matthews, as the announcer likes to say. Stout couldn’t take care of the ball and coughed it up 17 times. Stat of the game: Goodwin goes 8-13 from three and WW is 8-23 from three as a team.
StP 95 Sup 65 Another 1000th point scored in the WIAC this season. This time it goes to Pete Rortvedt and unlike the others this season Pete accomplished it in his junior season. That boy knows how to put the ball in the hoop. Not much to say in this one. Point put together another solid all around performance and took care of business against a team that they should beat. The young Jackets have graduated to WIAC 200 level classes and got another hard lesson about how easily Point can blow you out.
Osh 78 Lax 63 Talk about balanced attacks. It doesn’t get much more balanced than this for scoring: DSA 16, Defensive Specialist 16, Hot-Sauce Miller 15, Detlef 14, and Marsh 12. Brandon Brown, 0 points, isn’t making me look too good after giving him, “best point guard” in the conference props earlier this season. Miller took another step towards trying to win that title. Osh gets a nice win, which keeps them right in the thicket of the title race.
EC 77 RF 54 All right, I could go off about how I know EC has more talent than RF and anyone who follows the WIAC closely would have picked EC to win. And the only reason why I picked RF is because I wanted to keep my word to never pick EC to win again all season. I could play that card and be that guy, but no one respects those guys. I picked EC to lose and I can eat my humble pie with warm beer. Truthfully, a small part of me thought RF could win. Boy was I wrong. Look at the scoring for RF’s starters: Kelly 5, Hannigan 5, Wright 5, Davis 5, and Robertson 3. What can you even say about that? RF was led in scoring by two freshman: Danny Johnson 8 and Wade Guerin 13. As a team they shot 19-59 from the floor and 11-23 from the line. Beyer put up another MVP like performance with 38 BARPS. Ryan Shea further proved to me that he will have a triple-double before his WIAC career is over. Nice game for Jacob Schlub too. He has been the poor guy who gets to start, but then gets lost in the rotation as the game goes on. He has been playing much better lately, which is nice to see. The race for 5th place is hotter than ever.
Sunday, February 10, 2008
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Are you ready for the WW Plt showdown on wed? The expected turnout at Bo Ryan Court is supposed to be as numerous as when Bo and his Badgers showed up for the court dedication last year. Those able to make it into the gym should be in for a treat! I think that Plt can use Skemp to set up the inside-out pass or the high pick and roll against the WW defense all day long.
PVegas,
I am most definitely ready for the biggest game of the year so far in the WIAC. I wish I could be there to see it. I think it is a terrific match-up between two teams who both have strengths that could expose weaknesses of the other team. I still haven't decided who I am going to pick to win, but I hope for all the fans that make it out, that it's an excellent game.
There is nothing better than watching a game where you know that every single possession could make or break a team.
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