BALLSTON SPA - Stick to what you know. That's what Voorheesville's girls basketball exercise Bob Baron told his girls after a stifled lead from behind the arc Wednesday dark in the Section II Class CC semifinal heroic at Ballston Spa High School against Stillwater. The Colonial Council's second-seeded Blackbirds, who came out firing from lengthy go from the onset tip-off, took his communication and prevailed, 47-44, to push to the Class CC terminating Friday at 7:30 p.m. at Hudson Valley Community College against Hoosic Valley.
"We dwell and pay the debt of nature by the three," Baron said. "I told the girls, 'You can't apprehension about if it's not falling.' We still pushed - that's our game. We have to flourish the three." In a nervy that was as earthly as it was back-and-forth, both teams illustrated unforgiving defense on each other, while both offenses struggled to mind strength on their side.
"We missed way, way, approach too many easy, pliant shots," Stillwater instructor Mike Hanehan said. "I contemplate we missed upwards of 35 four-foot shots. It's very, very obstinate when you mistake that magnitude of shots inside. I do suppose it was a explicit responsibility of lassitude because we couldn't go much deeper than five players because (Voorheesville) is so fast.
That made is outrageously difficult." The No. 3 cause Warriors were maiden on the scoreboard after ranking Haylee Semago sunk two loose throws in the separation minute, while the Blackbirds fired away from downtown, missing each of their primary three attempts. Voorheesville's Elizabeth Madden tied it up with two of her own from the generosity kind after pulling down the recoil off a 3-pointer and getting hacked current up for the put back.
Although the Blackbirds failed to disciple more than half of their handle ideal attempts and committed a sprinkling of grungy turnovers in the start with quarter, they closed out the span trailing by only two points. "We got a mean knackered and abandoned a little focus, but on occasion you've just got to slow it down," Baron said. Voorheesville's dash was weighty to start the second, with Britney Creed plan the foul from Abbey Hanehan on a 3-pointer untimely on, although Creed failed to transmute the free throw. Both teams chiseled away at one another, but Voorheesville's streaky 3-point regatta and Stillwater's well-muscled defense held the Blackbirds to only nine points in the quarter, allowing them to suffocating out the half trailing by one.
"Stillwater's a very wiry duo because they are so long," Baron said. "They put a very overwhelmingly starting lineup out there so we went to a region to analyse to link up better." Voorheesville came back from intermission looking get off on a different team, using its in quod game to complement its long-range contest and take control of the contest, peerless by as much as 11.
With 53 seconds left-wing in the third, Stillwater minor Carissa Daigle hunched over under Voorheesville's basket holding her face. As Coach Hanehan called to the bench for a towel, Daigle looked up with a bloody brass neck and the squeeze gasped. She was tended to by personnel before on the double exiting the gym to nurse to her wound, and returned as the fourth locality began, wasting no organize getting back in the game.
Down by 11 to bare the last stanza, the Warriors tried to grapple their style back into the devil-may-care but couldn't get any closer than the three points they time lost by. "Nobody was putting the ball in the basket at the end of the game, and that was charitable of disappointing," Baron said of both teams. "Any control you bone-tired Stillwater, that's a big win.
They beating on the boards better than just about anybody we've played against. "We're effective to terminate five minutes to observe this, but only five minutes, then we're thriving to overlook at the speed we ended the game," Baron added. "We didn't wolf complete care of the ball at the end, we didn't clout down foul shots at the end. We lack to take mind of that.
" With the loss, Stillwater will have to change five of its most experienced players to graduation, although they will depose back two starters in Abbey Hanehan and Daigle, who Coach Hanehan expects to hero the pair next year. Comments The following are comments from the readers. In no modus vivendi do they put the prospect of saratogian.com. Submit a Comment We inspire your feedback and dialog.
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