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[NO RESPECT]

Blackburn Lost to maryville then beat Principia. So after losing to Fontbonne today, its only one loss, and not consecutive losses. I also disagree that the last box out would have won the game for us, but many other ones during the game and better defense.
Blackburn will get better defensively, I guarantee it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[formersliaccommish]

While I agree with coachdubb and HCAC that Christina Speer is a wonderful player, even better in Volleyball and one of the best two-sport athletes in the history of the conference, I'm not sure she can "hit the 3" as coach dubb asserted.

That is unless you consider five made 3s in four years with a .215 percentage as being able to "hit the 3".

[fcnews]

Best two sport female athlete. Easy choice. FU's Amy Hauschild. End of conversation.

[hopefan]

Disappointing performance by Webster last night - a great comeback from double digit deficeit to tie with 4 minutes left, but they play dead over the last minutes of the game to lose badly.  Some of the people I was so high on three weeks ago are either no longer playing, or not playing with the enthusiasm and aggressiveness that I witnessed in the OT victory vs Fontbonne....  Thank goodness for the couple upperclassmen.....

[theoneandonly]

Blackburn Lost to maryville then beat Principia. So after losing to Fontbonne today, its only one loss, and not consecutive losses. I also disagree that the last box out would have won the game for us, but many other ones during the game and better defense.
Blackburn will get better defensively, I guarantee it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

My bad dubb, i forgot about the prin game, AND I WAS THERE! just getting old i guess. and i wasnt blaming the whole game on that one play. i was just saying it was a huge play in the game. to quote myself it says word for word
"one box out at the end for blackburn would have been huge." Never one did i mention a win or a loss. other than the fact that i said it was a big win for FU. Still it was a great game and you are doing great things with those girls. keep playing how you have been and im sure we will all see you in the tournament.

P.S. #14 Alexander i believe is one heck of a defender.. she was all over the fu girls in the last couple of minutes and they couldnt even move so kudos to her for being such a great defender!

[Coach Will]

Hey 1 and Only, no disrespect, I just wanted everyo one else to know that we lost because as a team we have been really bad at boxing out and securing the rebound. Its something that we will continue to work at.

As for Speer, she always seem to hit big threes against us, so maybe that is why I made that comment!

Thank you all that come out to support us, we will get better and offer a better brand of basketball in the near future. 

Lastly, we have to be more consistent!!!!!

[hopefan]

incidently, another frosh to watch is Rachel Backes from Westminster...  I've seen her play 3 times now - tough nosed, quick point guard with an understanding of the game -  she has to have played a lot of ball in the off season -  she gets after it!!

Interesting - while I wrote just the other day that there are few frosh on the men's side of thing having any kind of impact this season, there are at least 7 or 8 frosh women playing and contributing that I know, and I only know half of the teams!!!!

[theoneandonly]

coach dubb, you keep playing your game... the box outs will come and so will the wins! better late than never.. you're still in it.. now grab whats yours!

[JAdaPrince]

Disappointing performance by Webster last night - a great comeback from double digit deficeit to tie with 4 minutes left, but they play dead over the last minutes of the game to lose badly.  Some of the people I was so high on three weeks ago are either no longer playing, or not playing with the enthusiasm and aggressiveness that I witnessed in the OT victory vs Fontbonne....  Thank goodness for the couple upperclassmen.....

I must disagree with you when you say they are not playing with the same enthusiasm and aggressiveness. They effort is there, and has been there. But lets not forget the majority of this team is freshmen, and some are playing more minutes than expected. Losing the two point guards (one of which was usually always on the court), has it effects. That is 40 minutes that have to played by someone. There are a group of players that are having to step up and claim those minutes.

But in short ... The effort is there!!! Maybe not the execution.

[sully309]

Greenville beat Eureka 54-46 in not a well played game by either team. The Red Devils seemed a step slow, but it was a physical game. Eureka led 14-8, but went almost 9 minutes without scoring to fall behind 28-14. Eureka got it to 40-37 in the 2nd half before running out of luck. It's always a low scoring game between these two teams, so not too surprising that 54 was enough to win.

Eureka plays at Fontbonne Saturday. The Griffins are obviously playing much better than when they met EC last time.

Surprising (at least to me) win by Westminster at Webster. I thought the Gorloks would have enough on their home floor to pull that one out.

[jdoug2]

And I will be attending the Fontbonne vs Eureka game.  Woohooo

[y_jack_lok]

With Blackburn's win over Westminster and Fontbonne's win over Eureka, it looks like the four tournament spots are all but locked up. The only chance for things to tighten up is if one of the bottom five teams puts together a pretty extraordinary streak over the next six games. Webster definitely needs to right it's slowly sinking ship. Something's gone awry in Gorlok-land.

[theoneandonly]

Big win for the Blackburn Girls who lost to westminster at home last time. Englands 17 point effort wasnt enough to take down Shipley, Gregory and the lady beavers!

[hopefan]

Just checked out the box to see what earned BC the win  -  huge discrepancy in Free throw attempts for BC  (24-7)  -  Shows Westmin's propensity to lack inside strength to the basket, too many 3 pointers and pull up 15 footers.....  That fault showed in the loss to Fontbonne too....

[Coach Will]

Blackburn finally played some defense and Boxed out...that was the difference as Westmin only scored 22 points in the 2nd half.