RMA results and notes.

Hi Girls,

We played poorly against Rocky Mount, Just no other way to say it. When you cannot score more than one point in a half your team energy gets so low your team has very little chance to recover. One of my favorite Thought's of the Day comes to my mind after a bad nights sleep last night. It is from Roy Williams UNC Basketball Coach, "Don't trip over something that is behind you".

The fact that we have played poorly the last two game on offense is no reason we cannot play good in our remaining 3 games. St. Davids is Friday and that will be challenging on their home court but they only scored 29 points against us in the last game we just did not put up enough points to make it a game. Then we have Cary Christian at home and Parrott on the road. We have beaten Parrott and we match up well with them physically. Cary had one girl score 30 points against us last game, we stop her and we have favorable match up's with their other players.

Get your chins up, we have beaten all 1A teams easily that we have played, we have beaten good 2A teams like Fayetteville Academy, Harrells, Parrott and Fayetteville Christian. We are still a good team, we just need to regroup and play like we play in practice every day. See you at practice.

Some Notes:

1- Scoring totals RMA Game: J. Harris 4, K. Dickens 3, K. Kessinger 1. RMA: #25 R. Brown 7, # 14 H. Fryar 7, # 13 S. Lossay 8, #23 M. Shearin PG 4, #30 M. Griffin 2. 3 other with 2 each.

2- We made 3 field goals out of 37 tries. Most of them were pretty good shots. Girls, that 8.1%.
We made 2 out of 6 foul shots. 33.3%.

3- Ashton led us in rebounding with 4, Meredith and Jennifer and Kaela had 2. Ashton had 2 blocks.

4- We had 13 turnovers and only 4 steals.

5- The good news was we got a chance to give everybody on the team some deserved playing time.
As you should all know it is always a goal of mine to give players time on the court when there is opportunity, I always have and I always will.

6- One of the real problems with JV Girls Basketball is we only play 6 min. Quarters. Everyone else JV Boy's included play 8 min quarters. I wish we had those extra 8 min. per game to use to develop players when there was opportunity to do so. It would have seemed fairer to have both JV teams play 7 min quarters instead of discriminating against the girl teams. Of course it is not my choice to make rules and I understand this rule was made to speed up getting 4 games in and getting home a early as possible. So we just play with the time we are given.

7- Time to move on. If we can win 2 of the next 3 games I think we will absolutely be in the tournament. If we win one of the last 3 we probably will be in the tournament. Time to lace them up and get serious. Next game up is St. David's in Raleigh, Friday. Be Ready!

Coach May