WBB: Ohio Athletic Conference

seventiesraider · January 26, 2006, 03:23:51 PM

Ouch!!! Marietta? Just a little reminder that it's a long way from fifth or sixth place to first place. Lady Raiders are improved, but there is work to do.

jdean · January 28, 2006, 06:18:27 PM

Mount played their hearts out but they got a little sloppy and tired & lost in 2OT to a team from down south. Wilmington looked like anything but a formerly ranked team today--very mediocre effort. Both teams struggled hitting open shots, especially in the 1H when Wilm had 5 pts with 10 mins played.
Hogan tried to win this game single handed, and she deserved that win. She's a good shot and gets a surprising number of rebounds but today she showed me the best individual effort I've seen by a Mountie in some time. The woman has unbelievable hands--tipped passes, strips, steals, scrambling for a loose ball. She has the same engine her coach had when she played.
Tough loss but a great effort.

spam · February 01, 2006, 09:21:09 PM

Capital wins a big one by two points tonight vs. Wilmington. Down by as many as 28, they didn't take the 1st lead of the game until the last basket of the game.

Wouldn't be surprised to see these two meet again in the OAC Tourny, would be another great one for sure...

jdean · February 01, 2006, 11:24:35 PM

See Mount got back on the W side, beating JCU by eight.
Mount travels to the land God forgot, Ada, this weekend then has 2 back to back home games vs BW and Cap. Good challenge for them to measure how much progress they've
made and how much farther they have to go.

Toph · February 02, 2006, 10:30:25 AM

JCU had no answer for Mount down low last night. It was a pretty good game, Mount led most of the way. The Streaks made it interesting, but then went on something like a 9 minute scoring draught. Pretty good guard play in the first half for Mount as well.

brutus · February 06, 2006, 08:25:40 AM

Haven't heard the usual glowing report about the purple-headed raiders dealing with this weekend's loss to ONU. 44 points? Must be that deep bench of yours really played well (5 points, 1-8 FG, 4 TO's)

jdean · February 06, 2006, 10:39:01 PM

Don't tell me Brutus Buckeye is a Poo Bear fan. Tressel is not going to be happy that you left Cbus.
As to Mount losing to the Poo Bears, based on the last two years its difficult for me to believe that Mount could win 5 games for the season. Under their new coach they've shown amazing progress, but playing .500 for the year was never in the crystal ball. Having said that, the most glowing thing I can say to my alma mater is: Go Poo Bears. The most glowing thing I can say to the Raiders is: be glad your not in Ada.

jdean · February 09, 2006, 01:06:36 PM

I saw some pretty bad games last season but I always stuck around to the end. Mount played so badly yesterday I left at halftime. Not to take anything away from BW's effort, Mount at times looked like they were sleep walking.
Judging from the box score it must have been a coma as they didn't awaken the 2H.
I'm hoping they will catch a 2nd breath and end the season on a high note and over the summer recruit a 7 ft Chinese (any nationality will do) woman.

spam · February 18, 2006, 02:01:43 PM

Any tournament predictions?
I'll go out on a limb and say it'll be Capital and BW in the finals, with BW prevailing in a tight game. Wilmington or Otterbein have a good shot also...

Assuming no upsets, the semifinals should feature 2 incredible matchups:
Capital vs. Wilmington
Otterbein vs. Baldwin Wallace

Any of those teams could make deep NCAA runs...

jdean · February 18, 2006, 11:43:38 PM

What a sick meal combination--spam and eatalotacarrotts.

Mount ladies took it on the chin by ten at Ott. For that they get to make the Godawful drive to Wilmington on a school night. That's probably worth ten points to Wilm.
The greatly overrated Cap Crusaders haven't won this tournie since 1997--lets continue that streak of mediocrity. Wilm didn't impress me when they played Mount recently but they seem to turn it up when post-season comes around. I'm hoping for a BW-Wilm matchup with BW winning.

brutus · February 21, 2006, 12:35:44 PM

Capital vs. Wilmington
Otterbein vs. Baldwin Wallace

I could see these going either way--Wilm isn't very deep, which will hurt them against Cap...just the same as it could hurt Otter against BW.
The deeper teams in both cases probably have lesser starting lineups...so it may come down to how many times that Peters and Holbrook can get good looks.
I'm hoping for Wilm-Otterbein...but I think BW may be too much again for the Cards.

Toph · February 21, 2006, 10:00:50 PM

Anybody have the MUC/Wilmington final?

quaker crazy · February 21, 2006, 10:31:03 PM

Quote from: Toph on February 21, 2006, 10:00:50 PM
Anybody have the MUC/Wilmington final?

The final score was Wilmington 81 Mount Union 68

jdean · February 21, 2006, 11:22:36 PM

No surprises, no upsets. Its BW, Wilm, Ott and, and, oh well whatever that 4th school is. Probably a BW - whatever that other schools name is, final, and that should be a good one.

srubweiser · February 24, 2006, 06:50:40 AM

jdean,

i must question your most recent post.......I would assume that the ONE player you are referring to is Sara Heitkamp, who no question is the best player in the conference, but in case you haven't noticed, Jen Lilly has put up 4 straight double-doubles most recently an 18 point 13 board effort.
should be interesting.