Wow, not my day on the computer .... here is the post I put on the wrong board.


I was wondering how our "Hosts" will handle the lower bowl bleacher seats during the tourney.  Will these seats be available to everyone or to just HPU students?

Maybe they will move in more seats and make it available to all the fans...??

Quote from: inthepaint on February 01, 2007, 11:46:45 AM

If, and it is a huge "if", the Cowgirls win you can be sure it won't be by a big point margin. 

Come on inthepaint...have some faith.   How about ....Cowgirls by 20?
I love predictions.

Seriously,  Cowgirls can win if we cut down on the turnovers and shoot  decent at the foul line.  27 turnovers (15 unforced) and 55% at the line  cannot happen today.

I just hope HPU keeps reading their headlines and fan predictions.  To date you have played a pretty weak schedule and should be undefeated.  HPU has played only 4 teams with a winning record and your opponents are a combined 83 wins and 119 losses....4 of your opponets are a whopping 8 and 37.  Your bench should have lots of minutes.  Your stats should be terrific.  Your starters should have low minutes.
Keep druelling over the records and stats.  The season is just now starting.

Cowgirls without a doubt played their best game of the year today.  It was a total team effort as 4 girls were in double figures and another had 9 points.  Briggs was forced to go deep on the bench with Hodges out due to injury and Walker getting in early foul trouble.  Cizneros, Singletary, and Harris came in and did not miss a beat.   Defense was very solid throughout the game.   Looked like the Cowgirl team that made the final 4 run last year.  I was beginning to wonder if that team would show up this season and I believe they have.   Up by 26 pts with 6 minutes left was definitely a statement.....GO COWGIRLS!!!

Cowgirls were up by 25 points when Briggs put the third team in with 4:58 left in the game.  Final margin was 13 points.  Can we count the 25 points as the winning margin so our "win margin stat" will look better when compared to other teams?
Seriously, the Cowgirls played a pretty good second half as they shot the ball very well, kept turnovers down, and played great defense.  Good job, now go do it again Saturday.

Quote from: Ralph Turner on January 11, 2007, 01:36:23 PM
Pirate, long time, no post!  How did the Cowgirls look since the McMurry game.  Who has caught your eyes among the Cowgirls?
Frankly, the Cowgirls seem to struggle at times.  After the final four, teams have their # and play lights out against us.  Brigg's has been grinding them in long, hard practices and we seem to play tired sometimes...  Hopefully this will pay off later.  Kristen Harris has been really coming on at the Post and Lacy Walker has been a bright spot with her hustle and going to the bucket.  Shelby Hodges will miss a few games starting tonight with a high ankle sprain, her defense will be missed.  Contruci has been hot and cold along with Dennard.  When we put it all together we can a very, very good team but we have not been able to do that yet.  It will come,  when I don't know.   All in all we just want to get in the tourney and then rattle the cage and see what comes out.

I don't believe for one minute that anyone can go compare score margins and figure if anyone has the edge.  Different teams, different sites, different injuries, sickness, coaching philosophy, different referees, travel, different motivation and even the weather.  There are just too many variables.
I do believe that on any given nite anyone can beat anybody and I will leave it at that.

Congrats to McMurry, you played a great defensive ballgame that kept us looking for answers in the 2cd half and none came. 
Ralph, you were dead on as to the 5 or so minutes when Tuttle and Richardson were on the bench.  HSU should have took full advantage of that but did not.
Both teams were horrible from the free thow line--HSU 12 of 24..,MCM 9 of 18. ....We will be outside on the driveway this weekend for sure. 

Thanks for the Kudos for the daughter...Surprised Briggs did not go deeper on her bench as HSU was tired down the stretch.

One thing we learned last year is that it is a long, long, season and lots can and will happen.  Enjoy the games.

 Correction----Mississippi College lost to UMHB 73-72

HSU survived ETBSU.  Cowgirls payed pretty good at times, pretty bad at times. ETBSU is the kind of team that can make you look bad at times.  We were glad just to get out of there with the victory.   Shot terrible from the charity stripe - 9 of 20.  ETBSU is very athletic and quick and pretty deep on the bench.... look for them to give lots of teams trouble this year.

6'1 post Jenni Hobbs did not suit up due to a back problem.  Shooting guard Lyssa Dennard played only about 6 minutes battling a flu bug.  Forward Shelby Hodges battled early foul trouble, she picked up her 4 th foul with 12 minutes left and had to sit.  6'1 post Melissa Contrucci fouled out with about 4 minutes to go HSU had only one starter on the floor for the last 4 minutes of the regular game and all of overtime and still nearly pulled it out. 
Hand it to Southwestern they got after us pretty good.  they hit some three's that got em back in the game and from then on the game was on against the depleted Cowgirls.
No excuses or whining from us...it was just one of those nights. 

Quote from: dballa on November 19, 2006, 11:34:43 PM
Regarding the Trinity/HSU game.  I don't know how accurate it could be.  Trinity played a tough game against HPU the night before in which they saw a referee go down with a seizure and a lot of them got sick and were emotionally upset.  I'm sure that took a lot out of them playing back to back games against Top 25 teams.

HPU routed them and played a great game, which i'm excited to see, but Trinity still has some really good plays and has a good team.  They play tough hard nosed defense and rebound very well.  I just don't know how much energy they would have had after playing HPU the night before.

dballa.....let's not give HSU any credit for soundly defeating Trinity Saturday after HPU defeated them Friday nite.    Maybe Trinity should just forfiet to UMHB tonight since they have been routed by 2 top 25 teams in a row and don't have any energy left.

Ok McMurry fans, what's the deal?   Engelke and Finstad graduated but Burton, Venekamp, Poaetzold, Stephens, and Mckewen are not shown on the 06-07 roster.  What a blow if Burton, Venekamp, and Poaetzold are not available! 7 newcomers on your roster...how will your depth be?
Saw a great player @ Angelo State Friday nite...  6ft 5in Katarzyna Kurowska from Warsaw, Poland via Grayson CCC.  She moves good, excellent shooter, and is very disciplined on the defensive end.  Great shot blocker with long arms.  Will be a force in D2.  I don't know how the D1 schools passed on her.

Just got in from Abilene to watch HSU Cowgirls scrimmage Abilene Christian. 
Came away very impressed with the quality of depth the Cowgirls have as they just wore down ACU.  More inspiring was the return of point guard Sarah Hauk from last season ending ACL surgery.  She played without a brace and as if the knee were never injured.....it was amazing to see.  It seems that with many ACL injuries players just never seem to make it back to where they were before the inury.  Way to go Sarah!  With Sarah & Rachel Cisneroz they have a great 1-2 punch at the point guard spot.

Quote from: Pat Coleman on November 03, 2006, 02:42:02 PM

Quote from: pirateonthebrazos on October 17, 2006, 11:40:58 AM

Dunno if anyone has pointed out how far off your assumption is.

D3News is based in OREGON.

Thanks Pat!
I thought I ate a little crow with my reply......don't we always blame everything on the East Coast press?
By the way....I appreciate the the great job that d3 sports does....If it weren't for this website I could never find news about other d3 teams and sports.

Cowgirls will scrimmage ACU Friday @ ACU.  I really don't think one can tell much about scrimmages except for seeing what kind of depth a team may have by getting a look at the new faces that may have joined the team and the progress of younger players coming back.