SLIAC

[jdoug2]

Tough way to lose. At least it wasn't a conference game. Thanks jack

[jdoug2]

Talked(text) to Lauren this afternoon. Will not play again tonight. She is thinking she will this weekend.


Let's go Fontbonne.

[y_jack_lok]

Just saw the score on the SLIAC website -- Eureka 69 Fontbonne 52.

http://www.sliac.org/womens3/wbasketball/. Sure surprises me.

[jdoug2]

Ouch, that one hurts.

[y_jack_lok]

Figure this out. Webster scores 18 points in the first half against Robert Morris-Springfield and trails by 10 at halftime. In the second half Webster scores 50 points and wins by 9 -- 68-59. A rather remarkable scoring turn around. A great game by Julie McGirl -- 21 pts, 11 rebs. And Webster is the only SLIAC team to defeat Robert Morris so far this season. MacMurray, Eureka, and Greenville all lost. Both Greenville and Webster have second games against Robert Morris.

Sat near the parents of Robert Morris' #23, Lindsey Rogers. Very nice people.

Next up Knox on Saturday. Knox has won a total of 19 games in the past six seasons with a high of 5 wins in 2002-2003. They are 1-3 so far this year.

[furbug]

The Lady Gorloks, at 5-3, are the only one of the 9 SLIAC conference teams with a winning record - total games. 

[y_jack_lok]

I just noticed that Fontbonne has a brutal weekend schedule: Friday 7 pm at Illinois College, Saturday 1 pm at Wash U, Sunday 3 pm at Millikin. How did that happen?

[jdoug2]

Fontbonne does have a ridiculous weekend ahead.

Just found out my niece will not be back until January. Ankle is still not right. Let's hope she comes back firing in 2009.

[y_jack_lok]

About the only saving grace in Fontbonnes' schedule this weekend is that even though the Wash U game is at Wash U there is no travel involved.

[sully309]

Impressive win for Webster over Robert Morris-Springfield. I had the opportunity to watch Robert Morris play both Eureka and Greenville the weekend before and the Eagles are a fun team to watch.  Both EC and GC had trouble matching up from an athleticism standpoint, though Greenville did a much better job of that.  Still, the Panthers fell by 18 points in that game. It was interesting to see them come back to beat Principia Tuesday to move to 2-0 in SLIAC play.

Anyway, it looks like WU and Westminster have made some strides this season.

As for the Fontbonne/Eureka game...it's was just one of those nights. As I said earlier, Eureka has enough talent to beat most of the teams in this conference. Some nights, it's not going to look like it though. Last year, I had a fairly good idea what I was going to see on a game-by-game basis from EC, but I have no clue what to expect anymore.

Eureka completely dominated Fontbonne for the last 10 minutes of the 1st half and it put the Griffins in too deep of a hole.  I give credit to Fontbonne for not giving up. It didn't look like they had much of a shot, but they did get within 3 points in the 2nd half. Perhaps the close loss the night before took something out of them because it was clearly an off night given their 2-25 three-point shooting.

[y_jack_lok]

Webster wins a nail-biter over Knox 77-70. After winning only 19 games the previous six seasons, and 10 the past four seasons, Knox has a new head coach. I expect they will be winning more games in the coming years. They play a well disciplined zone press on the inbounds which even if it doesn't result in a turnover takes ample time off the shot clock.

Webster played zone most of the first half and was getting burned by 3-pointers. Knox hit 9 of 12 in the first 15 minutes of the game and scored 39 points in that time. Webster played man-to-man the final 25 minutes of the game and Knox only scored 31 points and was 0-5 on 3 pointers. Great decision by the coach to change defenses. For the SLIAC teams (Mac, Eureka, and Prin) that play Knox in the next three weeks, guard #13 and #11 carefully on the perimeter.

The game might not have been as close if Webster had made more of its layups. Oh well, there are games like that.

[jdoug2]

A very tough weekend for Fontbonne over the weekend, dropping all 3 games. Looks like they were reasonably in 2 of the 3, but utterly drubbed by Wash U.

I'm thinking Fontbonne will really pick it up starting in January. 

[jdoug2]

I hope everyone had a great Christmas and holiday season. Fontbonne drops a game to a D2 team in Hawaii. On the bright side my niece will be playing once they get back to the cold weather. It was good to see Lauren over her short trip to Dallas walking without a limp. Although it sounds like Fontbonne will be without their second leading scorer, for perhaps the rest of the season. Yuck.

Go FONTBONNE.

[furbug]

"Although it sounds like Fontbonne will be without their second leading scorer, for perhaps the rest of the season."

jdoug2,
Isn't that Amber Karnes? Is she out of commission?

[y_jack_lok]

Not that we care all that much, since this is their last year in the conference, but Maryville beat #9 Kean 62-52, although the Maryville website has that game scheduled for tomorrow, with tonight's game to have been against LaVerne