WBB: Old Dominion Athletic Conference

[fairmont1113]

BC 66
VWC 50

BC did not play well at all during periods of the game. However, they played good enough to get the W!

Katy Herr Lovell once again led this team. Lovell had a double-double with 12 points and 10 rebounds, she also had six assists and five steals and probably about six or seven scrappy plays where she forced a jump ball. Jessica Timberlake had a career high of 18 points to lead the Eagles in the scoring column.

WAY TO GO EAGLES!

[odac fan 4 life]

I was dissapointed at the sportsmenship tonight at the BC v. VWC game....I never posted last year but I read about BC and VWC and the "kicking" incident of Michelle Dove. These are two very physical teams, but VWC seems to like to take cheap shots. Dove threw a very blatant elbow which ignited the home crowd and another girl stuck out her leg to cause a trip which also got the home crowd going, and there were several other incidents. The Eagles weren't perfect either with some very hard fouls, but I was dissapointed with VWC. I am from that area and hoped they would represent my home town better then that. I guess things have changed since I played, but good, hard, physical basketball does not equal cheap shots. When I am home I'll be seeing some more Marlins games, and I hope they play just as physical as they did tonight, but I hope they cut out the cheap shots.

[valleybballfan]

Uh-oh !

If I recall correctly, any talk of poor sportsmenship about VWC will stir up some of those Marlins!

Maybe that will be a good thing and some people will start posting on this board!

Good Job to BC today without starting Center Becca Henderson. Sophomore Jennifer Saunders started tonight in place of Henderson and played big with 10 points and 8 rebounds. Saunders also has the flu and missed yesterday's practice because she was sick!

Also, heck of a job by Katy Herr Lovell! She doesn't always score that much, but boy does she know how to run that point position!

[Matt Barnhart (kid)]

I was at the BC/VWC game tonight ... it was painful to watch the Marlins shoot.  They missed 70% of them!

I liked Thurston (#40) and Jones (#25).  Thurston was their vocal leader and played with the most emotion.  Very active under the rim.  Jones, only a freshman (or like VWC says it: "first year player" lol), was explosive and gave the Marlins a boost off the bench.  I can see her working her way into the starting lineup this season.

Other than those two, it wasn't pretty.  The rest of the team shot 17% from the floor.

For BC, I liked the lift Timberlake gave off the bench.  Amazing how we only played seven players, but still shot nearly 50% from the floor, 33% from behind the arc, and 77% from the foul line.  I think once we get Henderson back, and perhaps another player works their way into the rotation, we'll have a nice nine-player rotation once the postseason rolls around.  Sure we had 25 turnovers tonight - but it was only our second game of the year.  That'll improve.

I do think R-MC, EMU and Roanoke will be better tests for Bridgewater than VWC was.  I think Morgan (R-MC), Riley (EMU), and Hanson (RC), will be three of the best players in the conference.  Should be a fun season!!

[odacbballfan]

is it really that bad being a fan at an ODAC school other than VWC? I mean i understand everyone has all their heritage and history that they are so proud and now they are all getting their butts kicked by the bastard child on the coast but get over it. I didn't see the bridgewater game but it's always funny to me what "bad sports" VWC teams always are and how "perfect" every other team in the ODAC is and how they NEVER do anything wrong. I know you guys must be getting sick of seeing us win at everything, and we understand, but you should be getting used to it by now so it's time to just start admitting to yourself that we have better athletes and better coaches and that is why we win. I know women's basketball is one of the few remaining sports we don't completely dominate in year in and year out but it must scare the stuff out of you that a team that won only 5 games just 3 years ago was preseason picked 2nd in the league. Not to mention the fact that they played their first conference game on the road without their leading scorer from last year, shot 29% from the floor for the game and 24% from the floor in the 2nd half and where never "out" of the game. So how do you guys make yourselves feel better? Find two "incidents" that you may or may not have imagined and talk about how "dirty" the VWC team is. Like i said I didn't see the game but I looked at the box score and aside from the poor shooting from the Marlins here are some other things I noticed. Fouls VWC 18 BC 16 technical fouls VWC 0, intentional fouls VWC 0, flagrant fouls VWC 0....Those dirty, dirty Marlins...... I hope Roanoke and W&L packed some football gear for this weekend......GET OVER IT!... Happy Valleybball fan? you got your response....

[valleybballfan]

  I am happy! Just a little controversial comment that was given by a fellow Virginia Beacher was all that was needed to bring a little fire to the board. Way to take that comment way oout of line. I belive odac fan 4 life mentioned both teams being very rough, and who knows? maybe odac fan 4 life just needs to stick to sports like golf and tennis where there is not contact? I think by the sound of your post you have some security issues, and by your karma you have some problems expressing those issues I said nothing of the sportsmenship....only one person did....and they claim to be from VA Beach...but I guess you are right, vwcbeachbum....everyone is out to get ya'll

[Matt Barnhart (kid)]

is it really that bad being a fan at an ODAC school other than VWC? I mean i understand everyone has all their heritage and history that they are so proud and now they are all getting their butts kicked by the bastard child on the coast but get over it. I didn't see the bridgewater game but it's always funny to me what "bad sports" VWC teams always are and how "perfect" every other team in the ODAC is and how they NEVER do anything wrong. I know you guys must be getting sick of seeing us win at everything, and we understand, but you should be getting used to it by now so it's time to just start admitting to yourself that we have better athletes and better coaches and that is why we win. I know women's basketball is one of the few remaining sports we don't completely dominate in year in and year out but it must scare the stuff out of you that a team that won only 5 games just 3 years ago was preseason picked 2nd in the league. Not to mention the fact that they played their first conference game on the road without their leading scorer from last year, shot 29% from the floor for the game and 24% from the floor in the 2nd half and where never "out" of the game. So how do you guys make yourselves feel better? Find two "incidents" that you may or may not have imagined and talk about how "dirty" the VWC team is. Like i said I didn't see the game but I looked at the box score and aside from the poor shooting from the Marlins here are some other things I noticed. Fouls VWC 18 BC 16 technical fouls VWC 0, intentional fouls VWC 0, flagrant fouls VWC 0....Those dirty, dirty Marlins...... I hope Roanoke and W&L packed some football gear for this weekend......GET OVER IT!... Happy Valleybball fan? you got your response....

*yawn*

Okay, you just won a national men's baskeball title, and you've been dominate (in the ODAC) in softball and men's soccer.  You don't play nearly half the sports other ODAC schools play.  So I'm not quite sure what you mean by this:

I know you guys must be getting sick of seeing us win at everything, and we understand, but you should be getting used to it by now so it's time to just start admitting to yourself that we have better athletes and better coaches and that is why we win.

What does this have to do with women's basketball?  Your post would have made more sense had you come on and said something like...

I know you guys must be getting sick of seeing us be so overrated in women's basketball. Last year we were overhyped and ended up losing in the first round of the ODAC tournament as the third-seed. And this year it is a joke that we be picked number two in the ODAC above schools like Roanoke and Randolph-Macon.

[Matt Barnhart (kid)]

Of course I'm just giving you a hard time, vwcbeachbum.

Thanks for posting ... please continue. I hvae a feeling this board will be dead until BC loses.

[odacbballfan]

don't worry about me you can't hurt my feelings, Karma or no karma. I am interested to see how the Marlins respond tonight after the loss to BC. Hopefully the poor shooting the other night was a fluke rather than the norm. Oh by the way you left out Women's Soccer, and Baseball two more sports that we are annually dominant in, and our field hockey team isn't that bad, and women's lacrosse team has been pretty good, and our Volleyball team while only a few years old has continued to get better and compete in the tournament, now that i think about it there isn't much that we aren't good at I guess you still have track and cross country to cheer for!

[odacbballfan]

VWC 75 Noke 67 in OT.. sorry i don't have any incidents of bad sportsmanship to report to anyone. It was a very tough hard fought game. VWC took an 8 point lead into the half then went the 1st five min of the second half without scoring. Erin Hanson 12 boards / 18 points not much help from Cind McGraw 0-9 from the floor. VWC had 5 players in double figures and got great games from Michelle Dove 1f points 8 assists, and Andrea Ushinski 13 boards, 15 points, 5 assists and Jill Weston 6-9 from the floor 13 points. VW shot 38% from the floor which would have been enough to beat BC on Wed. Very interesting score in Ashland......I could definitely see Roanoke winning tmrw at Macon

[odacfan99]

RMC 66  W&L 64    WOW what a comeback by the Generals!  The game was close the first 15 minutes then RMC went on a run to take an 11 point lead into the locker room at the :00 mark of the first half.  RMC continued to pour it on early in the second half and quickly expanded the lead to 17.  Then the lead began to crumble.  W&L kept pecking away and cut the lead to two on a couple of occasions before pulling to within 1 with about a minute left to play.  With the score 66-64, W&L had the ball with seconds left and had two close range scoring chances under the basket.  Reisbeck cleanly blocked the first lay-up attempt out of bounds giving the ball back to W&L with 2 seconds left on the clock - enough time for an in bounds pass underneath and another well defended 5 foot shot that was off the mark.  The Generals played some tough man-to-man D and if they hadn't missed a few easy lay-ups and/or hadn't turned the ball over 31 times (YIKES!) they would have stolen one at Crenshaw.  RMC won with some tough D of their own, a balanced scoring attack (Arial 10 points, Childress 9, four players with 8 each and Shiflett with 7) and a little bit of luck.  I must say the officiating was pretty bad with very questionable calls (and no calls) against both teams at key moments in the game.  Roanoke should prove a real challenge for the Jackets tomorrow.  Then next up, a road trip to VWC on Wednesday.  We'll know just how good this team is over the next few games....

[Matt Barnhart (kid)]

don't worry about me you can't hurt my feelings, Karma or no karma. I am interested to see how the Marlins respond tonight after the loss to BC. Hopefully the poor shooting the other night was a fluke rather than the norm. Oh by the way you left out Women's Soccer, and Baseball two more sports that we are annually dominant in, and our field hockey team isn't that bad, and women's lacrosse team has been pretty good, and our Volleyball team while only a few years old has continued to get better and compete in the tournament, now that i think about it there isn't much that we aren't good at I guess you still have track and cross country to cheer for!

I'll give you baseball (six ODAC titles), albeit all since 1997 (so you haven't always been dominant) ... but women's soccer?  Where is that coming from?  No conference titles since it began in 1983.

And no ... "we" don't still have track and cross country.  Those sports are for Lynchburg.

Point is ... this is a women's basketball thread.  It doesn't say much for your women's basketball program when you're on here touting other sports at the school.

Nice win against Roanoke tonight.  But 38% from the floor still won't cut it against a great team.  And for the record (I went ahead and did the math for you), had you made 38% of your shots against Bridgewater (five more made field goals) - you still would have lost 66-60.  Shoot, I'll even make them all three-pointers: 66-65.

[odacbballfan]

but women's soccer?  Where is that coming from?  No conference titles since it began in 1983.

Just for the record last 6 years.....107-31-14 over all, 61-9-7 in the ODAC, this year ODAC Champions, 3 NCAA appearance including trips to the elite 8 and final four.......

But your right this is a basketball thread, the point of the whole thing was that women's basketball has been one of the few sports in the past that you didn't have to concern yourselves with getting beat in......

A math major huh, thanks for doing that for me, did you add in the momentum that making just a few of those shots might of added, and the fact that on a made basket VWC could have set up their defense? All I am saying is that a "normal" shooting night that game is a LOT closer than the final score indicated.

...... And this year it is a joke that we be picked number two in the ODAC above schools like Roanoke and Randolph-Macon.

Got one of them

[Matt Barnhart (kid)]

Bridgewater 66
Eastern Mennonite 46

Nice win by the Eagles today.  They held the Royals to 25% shooting from the field, including Carolyn Riley to 3-for-15.  Timberlake had another huge game with 17 points.  Herr-Lovell had 11 points, 9 rebounds, 5 assists, and 3 steals.

[odacbballfan]

I could definitely see Roanoke winning tmrw at Macon

You guys must hate that I am going to be right all the time....

Another good game for the Marlins 66-54 Final over W&L and th generals hit a long meaningless three at the buzzer to make it that close. 14 points 13 boards from Thurston, 12 points from Ushinski and 11 from Jones. Macon comes to "The fish tank" on Wed. A win then and I will start accepting apologies.