WBB: Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference

FlightofthePetrel · December 01, 2007, 09:37:02 PM

Ralph,

That's good to hear we're on your radar screen... you're a good person to have take notice. Should be another good game tomorrow versus Rhodes. I hope to see OU in the top 25 next week

Thanks again for the information regarding BSC etc.

FlightofthePetrel · December 02, 2007, 05:43:25 PM

Oglethorpe Came out strong once again today as they rolled over Rhodes 96-59. How does this win look Ralph? After the good close games that OU had against Rhodes last year I definitely wasn't expecting this result!

Kulavic 16 pts 7 reb 5 ast. 19 min
Howell 14 pts 4 reb. 13 min
Findley 10 pts 22 min
Richman 9 pts 4 reb 17 min
Brightwell 9 pts 5 reb 2 blk 10 min
Reed 8 pts. 4 reb 13 min
Corbett and MacDonald also chipped in 7 pts a piece

All OU players played at least 7 minutes and 14 of the 15 scored.

McGill had 15 pts 30 min.
Farrell 14 pts. 10 TO an uncharacteristically bad game for her played 32 minutes as well... not really sure why the coach continued to play her in a game that was decided in the first half as OU was up by 30.

frank_ezelle · December 02, 2007, 06:34:32 PM

Millsaps bounced back from Saturday's loss at Hendrix with a 57-41 home win over the U. of Dallas this afternoon. Dallas was 4-1 coming into the game with wins over Macalester, Curry, Sul Ross State, and Texas Lutheran. The one loss was at Hendrix by a score of 72-52.

I don't have a box score from today's game but here is the box score from the 88-79 loss at Hendrix yesterday:

http://www.scac-online.org/basketball_womens/mchc.htm

Ralph Turner · December 02, 2007, 06:44:02 PM

FlightofthePetrel,

I think that the disparity that may arise in the scores in D3 are such that I don't make much distinction between a 15-point win and a 30-point win amongst women's teams.

I don't think that there is that much depth of women's talent beyond the first tier.

That being said, I will follow Oglethorpe's games versus Trinity, Hendrix and Southwestern in the West and DePauw in the East.

Congratulations to the Petrels.

FlightofthePetrel · December 04, 2007, 05:51:00 PM

The Top 25 just came out for week 2

Defendindg National Champion Depauw reamains at #8
Depauw takes on Augustana this week

Oglethorpe enters the rankings for the first time this season at #25
Oglethorpe will have 2 home games this week against in state Rival Emory, in-state Rival Lagrange. 2 winable games for the Petrels.

Congrats to both teams for representing the SCAC

FlightofthePetrel · December 06, 2007, 11:23:44 PM

Oglethorpe used a 21 second half comeback to beat cross town rival Emory 87-78.

Anna Findley scored a game high 34 points while sinking 13-14 from the free throw line.

Kulvaic 11 pts and 5 ast. playing most of the game in foul trouble.

On a side note... I'd like to say this was the worst reffed game ever... and it went both ways. Emory was whistled for 35 fouls while Oglethorpe only managed 28... 63 total fouls! It's amazing only 1 person fouled out. I know I haven't seen every game ever played... but this had both teams griping from the get go as both teams were in the double bonus at the 9:47 mark.

OU is back in action on Saturday against Lagrange.

Bubba the Petrel · December 07, 2007, 08:54:33 AM

Quote from: FlightofthePetrel on December 06, 2007, 11:23:44 PM
On a side note... I'd like to say this was the worst reffed game ever... and it went both ways. Emory was whistled for 35 fouls while Oglethorpe only managed 28... 63 total fouls! It's amazing only 1 person fouled out. I know I haven't seen every game ever played... but this had both teams griping from the get go as both teams were in the double bonus at the 9:47 mark.

Eh - it's D-III ball. Not that's it's an acceptable excuse, but (as the saying goes) you get what you pay for. Compared to D-I games, the officiating is always going to be subpar (in relative terms). You should've seen some of the games during the early 90s...

frank_ezelle · December 07, 2007, 09:05:09 PM

Millsaps fell to Piedmont 62-54 this evening in a game that mirrored much of the season so far. Millsaps fell behind 12-2 to open the game, then fought back to only trail 27-26 at the half. Piedmont then scored the first 13 points of the second half to lead 40-26, only to have Millsaps come back and take a 46-45 lead with about 5:10 to play. From there it became one of those games when a team expends all its energy just catching back up and then doesn't have anything left to finish strong.

Right now Millsaps is showing a lot of potential and also a lot of the inexperience you would expect from a team that is starting three players who are in their first year with the team. They play Louisiana College tomorrow.

FlightofthePetrel · December 08, 2007, 10:34:54 PM

Oglethorpe beat a scrappy Lagrange team tonight 68-48... not the Petrels best game but a win is a win.

Findley led OU with 13 pts 8 reb and 4 ast.

Kulavic tallied 11 pts 5 reb and 4 ast. (only 4 away from 1,000- she should get it next saturday against Methodist)

frank_ezelle · December 09, 2007, 09:29:00 AM

Millsaps lost another tough game last night, falling 55-51 to Louisiana College after leading by 9 at the half and by maybe as much as 15-18 earlier in the first half. That puts Millsaps at 2-5 overall and 0-1 in the SCAC, not much different from the 1-6 and 0-2 at this time last year, but this team has improved tremendously and is continuing to do so.

The 5 losses this year have been by 4, 4, 5, 8, and 9 points. In the 8-point loss, Millsaps had a brief lead with about 6 minutes to go and in the 9 point loss (at Hendrix) it was a 2-point game with 11 minutes to play. This is a team that isn't so very far away from being 7-0 going into the break.

I wish I could confidently predict that the Women's BB team at Millsaps is going to duplicate the Millsaps football team of 2006, a rough start to the season that eventually concludes with a SCAC Championship. I don't see that being the case with the SCAC having so many talented teams, but I do see Millsaps getting much better over the course of the season with the chance of getting into the SCAC Tournament and maybe pulling off an upset (getting into the tournament is more difficult this year, especially in the West).

What Millsaps is lacking right now is experience which is what you would expect on a 10-player team with 4 returning players, 2 transfers, and 4 freshmen (one of these is a soph. who received a medical redshirt last season). You have freshmen trying to adjust to a higher level of play, new teammates trying to mesh as a team, and it doesn't help that last year's leading scorer and rebounder, LaReina Adams, spent the fall and first weeks of the season still rehabbing from surgery. Plus, with just a 10-player roster it is hard to gain game-type experience in practice when it takes having all 10 players at practice and healthy just to have enough for a scrimmage.

I believe Millsaps is definitely headed in the right direction and since there are no seniors on this year's team, I don't think it is an outlandish statement to say that I can see these players winning or at least strongly challenging for a SCAC title before they leave Millsaps. They need more pieces to complete the puzzle, but this group is a good foundation for rebuilding a program.

FlightofthePetrel · December 11, 2007, 01:36:41 PM

Oglethorpe made the biggest gain in the Top 25 this week moving up 6 places to #19, the highest ranking in program history! With games against Methodist, Roanoke, and Wilmington on the horizon I see 2 victories leading up the matchup with Wilmington (a rematch of the first round of the NCAA tournament last year) Hopefully the results will be different.

FlightofthePetrel · December 12, 2007, 12:21:23 PM

Did this really happen? Agnes Scott 43, Sewanee 32. Can anyone from Sewanee let us in on what might have happened? Sewanee beat Rhodes and Lagrange earlier in the year, I don't know in the world they would have lost to Agnes Scott?

sewanee tiger · December 12, 2007, 02:37:43 PM

Petrel,
The answer is all in the numbers. Shooting 3 for 23 in the second half (1 for 11 from behind the arc), will get you beat just about every time. To our girls' credit, we were still only down 5 with about 3 minutes to go because we continued to play good defense even though the shots weren't falling.

We played better last night, but still lost 79-67 to Emory, which shot 53% from the field for the game. Erica Kaplan was 6 for 7 from behind the arc for Emory. Anne Wills led Sewanee with 19 points.

FlightofthePetrel · December 12, 2007, 07:02:08 PM

Yeah, it's tough to win when the shots aren't falling. I had Sewanee as my sleeper this year... and with starting the season off beating Rhodes I thought I might have been right. Luckily Agnes Scott and Emory were not conference games. I'm sure the girls have alot on their minds right now with finals and such. Hopefully they'll be able to right the ship once the new semester begins.

Bubba the Petrel · December 13, 2007, 02:16:58 PM

Quote from: FlightofthePetrel on December 11, 2007, 01:36:41 PM
Oglethorpe made the biggest gain in the Top 25 this week moving up 6 places to #19, the highest ranking in program history! With games against Methodist, Roanoke, and Wilmington on the horizon I see 2 victories leading up the matchup with Wilmington (a rematch of the first round of the NCAA tournament last year) Hopefully the results will be different.

Lady Petrels up to #17 in the Week 3 WBCA Poll (DePauw holds at #8).