MBB: Old Dominion Athletic Conference

[mybleedinghands]

There were rumors last year of Dominic Trawick transferring to LC. They did hold water as I was told by team sources he was considering it, but as you can that never materialized. I'll take King, Trops, or Medlin at LC though - especially the two bigs since we need post depth lol

[tigerrat]

Let the rumors fly and the games begin. Good luck and Woolridge is the real deal.

[mybleedinghands]

Let the rumors fly and the games begin. Good luck and Woolridge is the real deal.

Mhmm . It would be nice if we could have a true D3 center we could play so Mason could play  the 4 since his game is more suitable to the 3 and the 4 seeing as he was a D1 small forward his one year at Marshall and a power forward at Fork Union.

[FortyFour]

VWC knocks off RMC, 56-38.  The Marlins held the Yellow Jackets to 28 percent FG shooting for the game.  Tyler Fantin led the Marlins with 15 points and 12 rebounds.

[algernon]

The Tigers and Maroons go into the locker room tied up at 32-32.  In the second half, the Maroons go ahead and keep a 6-10 point advantage through much of the second half, but the Tigers come back from an 8 point deficit with 2:30 left on the clock to tie the game up with 59 seconds left.  One of Roanoke's players is called for traveling and the Tigers have the ball with about 40 seconds left, with the score at 65-65.  Tough Roanoke pressure leads to a Tigers turnover with 24 seconds left.  A. J. Dowell goes toward the basket with 4 seconds left and draws a foul and hits both shots, effectively ending the game.  Tough game for the Tigers to lose.

Drew Prehmus was out with a rolled ankle for the second half, so the Tigers were playing without two of their senior captains (Drew and Tyler Murray).  Foul trouble for Troy Kaase limited his playing time.

[Brian Hamilton]

Algernon recapped the game between HSC and RC quite nicely, but I would add a few other things.  The Tigers were up 11 with about 4-5 minutes to go in the first half and Roanoke closed out the half with an 11-0 run to tie the game up at half.  Most of that run occurred after Prehmus rolled his ankle.  Roanoke came out and continued that momentum at the beginning of the second half and got the lead up to 11.  It remained, as Algernon said between about 6-10 points the rest of the way until the Tigers came back and tied it up.  The Tiger turnover at the end of the game was questionable.  HSC had no timeouts so the players had to execute and with the injuries to Prehmus and Murray they had some younger players on the floor.  Lawton had to dribble the ball up and was coming up the sideline by the announcers table and got bumped by the Roanoke player as he crossed halfcourt.  As a result he started falling out of bounds and had to try to pass it to keep it alive.  Roanoke intercepted the pass and AJ Dowell held for the last shot, on which he got fouled.  That call was also questionable to a lot of the people sitting around me as they felt that he had about as much contact as Byron had gotten on the previous play.  I am not sure about the call at the end because I did not have a good view of it, but it is unfortunate to lose a game where you could have held for the last shot and at least had overtime.

I was very impressed with the play of AJ Dowell.  I still wish he were at HSC.  He is a solid ball handler and can create room for his own shot.  He also makes good decisions and can create shots for other players with his dribble penetration.

As much as I hated losing this game, I hope that Drew is ok and will be able to play.  If they were also to lose Drew to injury that would really hurt the Tigers.  I will say that I think that HSC is better than there 3-5 ODAC record.  They have lost 3 games since Tyler's injury.  He may not have made the difference, but he certainly would not have hurt.  I do think he would have made the difference today.  If Drew hadn't been hurt the Tigers may have won also.  If and maybes are exactly that though.  The Tigers now have to prepare for W&L and take things one game at a time.  The second half of the season they have VWC, Guilford, W&L, and Bridgewater at home and RMC, RC, LC, EMU, and E&H on the road.  the road games look easier than the home games, but nothing is a given this year. 

[algernon]

They have lost 3 games since Tyler's injury.  He may not have made the difference, but he certainly would not have hurt.  I do think he would have made the difference today. 

The loss of Tyler has certainly been a tough one for the Tigers.  His rebounding, energy, and leadership have been a huge piece of the Tigers' game.  Tyler's stats do not effectively represent the importance he has had with this team.  Nevertheless, the Tigers have the ability to have a much better second half of the season.

I agree with Brian that the Tigers are better than their ODAC record would suggest.

A. J. had a great game ... 21 points ... and Curtis Peery added another 19 points.

Turner King had 18 for HSC, with Karlis Trops contributing 14 points and 4 steals.  Kaase and Prehmus adding 10 apiece (although Prehmus played only 16 minutes).  Jyri Laakso grabbed 8 rebounds in 16 minutes of play.

On the road to Lexington tomorrow!

[Brian Hamilton]

I should also add that Roanoke played great defense against the Tigers and made all of their shots difficult.  I also want to mention that I was not blaming the game on the officials because I though they called a good game at HSC today.  It is just always tough when it comes down to some judgment calls at the end of the game that decide the outcome of the game. 

Algernon,
Root'em on for me.  Its tough to get to away games with two young ones that won't sit still and when you are always asking the grandparents to watch them.  I assure you that I will be listening and rooting them on from Darligton Heights!   

[algernon]

I heard that King, Trops, and Medlin are tansferring after this year. I believe it to be a vicious rumor but you can never tell. I was told that Trops and King want to get closer to home and Medlin is discouraged about playing time and a D1 post player is coming in next year. I hope this is all wrong.

Simply sounds ridiculous.  I wouldn't give it a second thought.

[hasanova]

Final:  Guilford 85, Bridgewater 80

Strong had 38/11 for GC, Trawick 39 for BC.  Quakers improve to 11-4, 6-2 and the Eagles fall to 8-5, 3-4.  Guilford makes the short overnight trip to EMU for Sunday's game.  They'll probably meet E&H as they travel to BC.  If Bridgewater puts up threes on Sunday the same way they were on Saturday, the Eagles and the Wasps should also light up the scoreboard.

[donho]

  Wow, the jackets laid an EGG today. Simply put they played awful! Can not win in the ODAC when some of your better players give up. Jackets have to stop bit..en and PLAY!

[GP05]

I mentioned that I felt Marlins D would be the wild card in the RMC game today. It was. RMC may have laid an egg, gave up, etc but it was because of a tenacious VWC defence.  Both teams played well on that end of the floor; it was 23-21 at the half I believe.  VW just has too much talent not to go on at least one decent run offensively and it came in the first 5 minutes of the second half.  The Marlins scored 23 the entire first half and then 18 in the first 5 1/2 minutes of the second.  During that run, they held the Jackets to 2 points or so.  Very competitive games with two aggressive defensive minded teams often come down to a single run and that was it.  Hassell and Fantin can almost make you forget how much they miss Adair when they're playing well.  Unfortunately they aren't as consistent but they are stepping up more and more.  This win is certainly huge for the Marlins.  They need to keep playing that sort of D.  As for RMC, I'd expect the loss to motivate them.  They're a very, very gifted team.

I remember rmc hyping Rhoade's coaching as better than Macedos.  I decided to keep an eye on it in the game. After watching, the coaching edge certainly went to the Marlins in my mind.  The right substitutions kept creating the right match-ups and VW appeared motivated even when RMC threatened to run away in the first half.  RMC didn't show the same resolve.  My personal opinion is that they're two of the best coaches in the country, probably about equal.  I certainly can't see rating either as significantly better.

[ODACfan4life]

Wow, E&H over EMU 154-146 in OT.  That had to be a wild one.  E&H scored 25 pts in OT!!

Lynchburg falls to W&L at home.

Not sure why a poster on this board would circulate a rumor that 3 players at HSC intend to transfer and then, in a later post, say, well, I don't believe the rumor because the players seem happy at HSC.  If you do not believe the rumor, then why post it and stir things up?  That is a bit unfair to those young men.

[mybleedinghands]

Not sure why a poster on this board would circulate a rumor that 3 players at HSC intend to transfer and then, in a later post, say, well, I don't believe the rumor because the players seem happy at HSC.  If you do not believe the rumor, then why post it and stir things up?  That is a bit unfair to those young men.

as said earlier, it's "just a bunch of lunacy someone concocted on a message board to get people talking"

[algernon]

Washington & Lee 77, Lynchburg College 62


Emory & Henry 154, Eastern Mennonite 146 -- in OT

     Emory and Henry broke their own ODAC record of most points scored in 1 game (previously 150 against Thomas More on 11-26-05).

     300 points between the two teams is almost certainly an ODAC record ..... even though the record isn't listed in the online ODAC record book.

     Brad Parkes scored 44 points, which might be an EMU record.