Empire 8

FisherDynasty · January 08, 2008, 06:09:32 PM

Fisher's Gym is pretty nice just is small. My high school gym was bigger. Atleast the step is different than the standard gym as most high schools are set up.

Caz Bombers · January 08, 2008, 07:32:45 PM

Bombers off to a lousy start, down 7 with 2 minutes left in the 1st half. Burton's got 10 and Rogers 8 but we might need to put out an APB for Sean Leahy tonight.

EDIT: Make it 43-37 Hobart at the break. Burton with 12; Hobart shooting over 50 percent from the floor. A little defense, please, IC.

Caz Bombers · January 08, 2008, 08:36:39 PM

Just a terrible game for Ithaca, they're probably going to lose by double digits. Awful loss. IC's just not that good.

EDIT: Final was 87-75. Brendan Rogers with 23 for Ithaca; 17-8-5 for Burton. Hobart shoots 54.8 percent from the floor, mostly layups according to live stats. Pumpkins with five guys in double figures.

With just about all E8 games from here on out, Ithaca must figure out what the hell is going on defensively.

bball05 · January 08, 2008, 09:22:05 PM

any1 got the uc score?

reelentless · January 08, 2008, 10:11:22 PM

Utica 68 Oneonta 67 no stats yet

gobombers15 · January 08, 2008, 11:51:25 PM

Quote from: reelentless on January 08, 2008, 10:11:22 PM
Utica 68 Oneonta 67 no stats yet

Herring with 16-5-7 and McClendon with 14 and 6 rebs. Patrick Goodman chips in 11 off the bench. Trailing by 1, James McClendon layup with 4 seconds left wins the game for Utica. In the interest of full disclosure, Utica savior Bobby Whyte had 2 pts, 2 rebs, 3 turnovers in 20 minutes of play.

Stevens trumps Staten Island, 71-56. Virgil Gray leads the way with 23 while Waleed Farid fills the stat sheet with 9 pts, 12 rebs, 7 assists, 4 steals, and 2 blocks. Joseph Ayodele w/8pts and 10 rebs off the pine. Stevens now at 10-1.

In the evening's only conference matchup, Elmira knocks off homestanding Alfred by 7, 60-53. The Soaring Eagles shoot a ridiculous 13-19 (68%) from 3-pt land in the win. Evan Taylor leads with 17 and Nick Molak pours in 11. Alfred was led by Jared Patt's 17. Elmira now sits at 2-4 in the conference while Alfred falls to 0-4. In other news, the only people that attended this game were immediate family members and girlfriends of the players. As a follow up, it was later learned that six of the girlfriends left their boyfriends upon realizing how terrible at basketball they were.

bombersquadron · January 09, 2008, 12:01:53 AM

Back in Ithaca and made the trip to see my uncle who works at Hobart and catch the game. It was a tough game. A lack of intensity hit Ithaca tonight and this may be a reoccurring theme for the Bombers. It seems with the season almost half in the bag that The Bombers are having a mid-life crisis. They have an identity but just aren't sure what is going on. Except for a few bombers there seemed to be an overall lack of emotion at points and no urgency throughout the game. The Bomber bench brought it once again and made the game close with a three minute spurt to close the half. Amazing games from Brendan Rogers and Louis Kail both played very hard.

Kail and Rogers started the second half and the energy carried over for the first three minutes. The Bombers made a few runs and took a one point lead with about tweleve and a half to play but Hobart regianed the lead and took it to about six with six minutes left and never looked back. Story of the game was missed free throws in key spots, missed threes (5-28) and turnovers (20) hurt the team the whole game. They had to have won the rebound battle, but everyone else seemed to be stepping up for Hobart as they had five players in double figures. Ithaca went 1-3-1 at times and that worked but in man to man they couldn't keep anyone in front of them.

Overall a very difficult loss to take watch, personally I think Ithaca should have won by 15-20 and I don't know what happened. Hopefully they can figure out something to solve the lack of energy, which always seems to be a problem with Ithaca. When I played the team always came out flat except in certain games. On top of that they lost the swag they had during first semester games. I hope to see the Bombers regain that versus Alfred and get ready for a big weekend trip to Rochester on the 18th and 19th.

bombersquadron · January 09, 2008, 12:07:52 AM

On the topic of Gyms, i didn't mind Hobart's gym. Had much better lighting than Ithaca's Ben Light. For a school with such a big physical education program it is a crime that Ithaca has such a crappy gym. They use the black curtian to hide the nasty wall and it has the worst lighting. I also hated Alfred's Gym with one side being about 25 feet longer than the other behind the basket. I too would take my high school gym over most empire 8 gyms.

Caz Bombers · January 09, 2008, 12:12:18 AM

At least IC is getting that shiny new facility soon. When's the ETA on that again? Anybody know for certain?

JQV · January 09, 2008, 08:24:03 AM

Quote from: Caz Bombers on January 09, 2008, 12:12:18 AM
At least IC is getting that shiny new facility soon. When's the ETA on that again? Anybody know for certain?

Not for basketball Caz. Bomber hoops stay in Ben Light.

gobombers15 · January 09, 2008, 09:29:48 AM

Quote from: JoseQViper on January 09, 2008, 08:24:03 AM
Quote from: Caz Bombers on January 09, 2008, 12:12:18 AM
At least IC is getting that shiny new facility soon. When's the ETA on that again? Anybody know for certain?

Not for basketball Caz. Bomber hoops stay in Ben Light.

On the virtual tour, there is a basketball floor shown in the field house. Are you sure they're definitely staying in the bulb?

JQV · January 09, 2008, 10:01:54 AM

I'm sure. I saw that on the virtual tour as well but in talking to people at the college, they say that renovations to Ben Light is part of another "phase" of the master campus plan.

Caz Bombers · January 09, 2008, 10:11:44 AM

Dangit, Jose's right. They're groundbreaking this spring, but the project in its first phase is going to be a big indoor space for graduation and concerts, with athletic use as indoor track, IPF for football and other outdoor sports with a turf field outside for practice, presumably football.

Basketball/Volleyball/Wrestling and the swim teams will have to stay in Hill Center until they are able to raise even more money to build more stuff. Years and years, sounds like. That's a shame...the biggest area of needing athletic improvement at IC has always been basketball. This coulda really helped them.

EDIT: Not that a legitimate IPF for football is a bad thing. Can't imagine too many D3 schools in the region can show that to recruits, at least we'll be keeping up with the Fishers that way.

JQV · January 09, 2008, 10:16:54 AM

The spring teams will garner the biggest benefit from the new center. As of now, if you want to play Baseball, Softball or Lax at IC, you have to suffer through 5 am or 11 pm practices while there is snow on the ground because the hoop teams have practice time priority in the Hill Center during the week.

bombersquadron · January 09, 2008, 11:19:32 AM

From what i have heard Ithaca will be playing basketball in Ben Light and will not be going over to the new Athletics and Events Center. It will really help teams like softball who go at 5 am from Jan into the march and april. The plans for the building look amazing, I feel they could fit a nice basketball court in there, something similar to Hamilton College's field house.

Tonight i am planning to go to Fisher for the chase games being played there. Some good match-ups in my opinion. I want to see RIT's Mark Carson and see his improvement's, also want to see if Naz id for real, they are almost in the Top 25 now. Also glad to see the rematch of Fisher v. Brockport from last year's sweet sixteen game at Fisher. I was at the game second row on the floor and it was top three games i have ever seen, very exciting. Brockport has struggled as of late and i'm not sure why. After seeing them last year and talking to some former players i had them pegged for the top 10 all season and a possible final four team and now are out of the top 25. Should be a good set of games and i hopefully will have some insight to report when i make it back to Ithaca tonight.