Final: @ Portsmouth 49 Wheelersburg 46

[jgordon0315]

Carter huge for the trojans tonight . Burg is offensively challenged and has no height whatsoever . Interested to know how much better the trojans played tonight than the opener at SW .

Burg is disadvantaged in size for sure, but the real problem is that the starting guards COMBINED for 2 pts. The other 3 were all in double digits, despite being undersized compared to Portsmouth. A small, perimiter based team will not be successful without some contribution from the guards. From talking to a couple Portsmouth fans at halftime, they said that Portsmouth was playing much better than they did at SW, but maybe a PHS fan who saw both games can give a better comparison. From what I heard, they played much better defense last night and had much better shot selection.

We played better against Burg compared to Webster, but a lot of what we did bad against South Webster was missed shots. We missed a ton of free throws and a ton of open looks from the perimeter and even bunnies. Misses and makes from the field will come and go, however the biggest improvement that we made from game one to game two was getting back on defense. SW beat us down the court countless times, which was surreal. That didn't appear to be an issue against Wheelersburg. We still have a lot of improvement to do. We only have one player back from last years roster that made it to the State Championship game. And he was big for us last night. We started a freshman, a sophomore, a junior, and 2 seniors......and then we had a freshman, another sophomore, a junior and a second senior who were in the rotation last night.

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Like 4th and goal said, your two guards can not score 2 points between them and expect to win. E. Miller took maybe five shots and Massie took about the same. Cowgill played a great first half, taking the ball to the hole and scored 8 points and then just quit shooting in the 2nd half and didn't score again until late in the game.

D. Miller and Moore were basically taken out of the game on some pretty cheap fouls but you have to be able to play through that on the road. D. Miller was still able to lead the Burg in scoring but was on the bench on defense for all of the 4th qtr.

If Burg doesn't shoot any better the rest of the season, it could be a longgggggg season. They have the talent. They just have to hit the open shots.


Was curious as to why a Sophomore, Austin May would be on the varsity and yet not see the floor. I would think it would pay off in the future to have him playing JV and getting some playing time down there.

[Jolly P(irate)]

yeah when does Hockey season start?