WBB: Landmark Conference

[saratoga]

As we gear up for a long awaited new season, one of the more interesting new comers in the league will be E-towns 6'3" freshman center, DanniRay Renno.
Led her HS team to a AA Pennsylvania State Championship, was All-State, threw in 40 points in one game & averaged over 20ppg for the season.
As we all know, the transition from high school to college ball is not easy but this young woman certainly has the makings of a really great catch for E-town.

[ronk]

As we gear up for a long awaited new season, one of the more interesting new comers in the league will be E-towns 6'3" freshman center, DanniRay Renno.
Led her HS team to a AA Pennsylvania State Championship, was All-State, threw in 40 points in one game & averaged over 20ppg for the season.
As we all know, the transition from high school to college ball is not easy but this young woman certainly has the makings of a really great catch for E-town.

I see that Veronica Christ returns as a grad student for Etown but Angie Hawkins, one of the more athletic Landmark players, did not.

[ronk]

 While we wait for the Lady Royals to open their season Thursday, congrats go to the women's teams that won their AQs yesterday, soccer and field hockey. Volleyball had a big lead in the 3rd game against perennial winner Juniata, but Juniata closed strongly to win in straight sets. Don't know if the volleyballers will get an at-large bid tomorrow.
  Abby Anderson(WBB) was the athletic dept rep today with the weekly thought on growing as a person, student, teammate.

[Dave 'd-mac' McHugh]

Ryan;
What's the scoop with Bobbi Morgan leaving Haverford for Ursinus?
Not that common for coaches leave one school only to be hired by another in the same conference.
The pay differential has to be less since it doesn't appear she has any administrative role beyond coaching.
Just looking for a new challenge or did she feel Haverford peaked in their commitment?

She didn't actually leave Haverford for Ursinus ... she left Haverford and took a prep school job ... then the Ursinus job opened up and she decided she still wanted to coach in college.

She left Haverford for reasons I'm told are due to far higher up the food chain (notice, the AD left prior to Morgan and other coaches and staff left) ... and maybe the prep job wasn't what she hoped or was ready for.

[NEPAFAN]

While we wait for the Lady Royals to open their season Thursday, congrats go to the women's teams that won their AQs yesterday, soccer and field hockey. Volleyball had a big lead in the 3rd game against perennial winner Juniata, but Juniata closed strongly to win in straight sets. Don't know if the volleyballers will get an at-large bid tomorrow.
  Abby Anderson(WBB) was the athletic dept rep today with the weekly thought on growing as a person, student, teammate.

Volleyball get at an large bid. Everyone makes the NCAA's except the Men's Soccer team. They finish 4-6-5 and miss the Landmark Tournament.

[ronk]

Anyone else see this tweet from Kaitlyn Lewis last week? 

https://twitter.com/kaitlewis3/status/1440755962487316480

I wonder what it's in reference to...

Upon reflection of what happened since, it appears that the addition of Emma Duerr in the future might have been to whom she was referring.

[Tim the Enchanter]

Anyone else see this tweet from Kaitlyn Lewis last week? 

https://twitter.com/kaitlewis3/status/1440755962487316480

I wonder what it's in reference to...

Upon reflection of what happened since, it appears that the addition of Emma Duerr in the future might have been to whom she was referring.

You're probably right! 

[ronk]

 Video link for Lady Royals' game tomorrow nite is currently only showing up on the Marywood WBB page. Many schools haven't yet connected with d3hoops' schedule for video and live stats.

[Tim the Enchanter]

Watched a little bit of the video from tonight's blowout win by the Royals over Marywood.  They had strong strong ball movement (with assists on 30/38 FGs), accurate shooting (38-67) and dominated on the boards (45-32).  And Abby Anderson is advertised, with 19 points in 17 minutes, on 8-11 shooting.

DeSales on Saturday should be a much bigger test, though...

[ronk]

 15 Lady Royals dressed and played at least 7 mins. 2 in scrubs on the bench, presumably Carly Heineman and Mackenzie Steele.
  Abby Anderson:  when doing evaluations 6 summers ago(rising senior year-high school) , I had Leah Springer(Messiah 2nd team preseason All-American) and Abby relatively equivalent. Since then, Leah has had a significant injury and Abby played lower half D1 level competition. They may still be equivalent; both can do it all on the D3 level.

[NEPAFAN]

Scrubs?

[ronk]

Scrubs?

Just a description of informal team outerwear. not wearing the playing uniform.

[saratoga]

Probably the only area the Lady Royals need to improve upon from their opener is to drive to the basket more often to get to the free throw line.
They have some kids that can take it in with authority & when Marywood came out of their zone, there were opportunities that were there.
A great free throw shooting team certainly wants that part of the game to be in play.
Create some overloads & let the drives begin.


As for tonight...
Scranton-73/Desales-58.

[ronk]

 I underestimated DeSales' Averi Jordan when I 1st saw her as a frosh; thought Makenzie Mason would dominate her, but Averi not only equalized if not won the battle between them.

[saratoga]

However, the Lady Royals won both games so the kingdom slept well.