Final from Highlands

I'm guessing Highlands little hot streak is over and are back to reality. This is a bit of a head scratcher for me

Stats

HHS

Finfrock 14 & 9

Greene 9

Traylor 9

team shooting

39% FG

5/15 FT

 

BHS

Alcorn 21 & 9

Toebbe 14 & 10. 9/11 FT

Hicks 10

team stats

46% FG

17/19 FT

I'm guessing Highlands little hot streak is over and are back to reality. This is a bit of a head scratcher for me

 

I think this was their 3rd loss in a row.

Poor FT shooting all season and 5/15 tonight.

Beechwood had a chance to put it away a few times but just couldn't do it.

Poor FT shooting all season and 5/15 tonight.

 

Not a recipe for success.

Posey not in the box score? Did he not play?

Posey not in the box score? Did he not play?

He played about 10 min with no point

I'm guessing Highlands little hot streak is over and are back to reality. This is a bit of a head scratcher for me

 

Are you thinking this is a big upset? I would have called this game a toss-up from the start. Nice win for the Tigers at Highlands. Beechwood is among those teams right there in the mix outside of the top three. If they play well they are capable of beating anyone except the top three.

Are you thinking this is a big upset? I would have called this game a toss-up from the start. Nice win for the Tigers at Highlands. Beechwood is among those teams right there in the mix outside of the top three. If they play well they are capable of beating anyone except the top three.

 

I guess I was thinking due to both play as of late... HHS reeled off some really good wins and BHS has struggled as of late, I though the birds had turned the corner. But as I go back and look at the schedules, this was more of a toss up.

Highlands High School put together another great Senior Night on Friday.

 

The school honored the senior basketball players, cheerleaders and dance team members as part of the doubleheader with Beechwood. The Ladybirds (20-8 overall) put an exclamation point on the night with a convincing 70-29 victory over the Lady Tigers (9-15). The Bluebirds (12-16) then tried to do the same thing but came up short in a 63-55 defeat to the Tigers (15-12).

 

Following the first game, free throws doomed the Bluebirds. They made just 5-of-15 for 33 percent while the Tigers made 17-of-19 for about 90 percent.

 

"It's really just a mental thing," said Kevin Listerman, Highlands Head Coach. "You got to step up and knock those shots down. There's not really much you can do for the free throws other than practice them. We shoot them. There's lots of different ways to do that. The bottom line is it's hard to simulate game pressure in practice. It was just one of those nights where we shot it poorly from the free-throw line."

 

The six Bluebird seniors are centers Kyle Finfrock, Brent Angel, forwards Luke LaFrange, Morgan Race and guards Brad Greene and Bryce Traylor. They combined for 41 points in the losing effort. Finfrock nearly had a double-double with 14 points and nine rebounds with Greene and Traylor scoring nine each and Jacob Noe adding eight. LaFrange added seven rebounds and Greene had three assists.

 

Highlands won the rebounding battle, 36-33 including 13-4 on the offensive glass allowing the Bluebirds to outscore the Tigers, 17-6 on second-chance points. The Bluebirds made 23-of-59 shots for 39 percent including 4-of-18 from three-point range with Beechwood making 21-of-46 shots for 46 percent including 4-of-13 from downtown for 31 percent.

 

Highlands saw senior forward Owen Alcorn hit a number of jumpers in the first half on his way to 21 points and nine rebounds making 9-of-18 shots to go with two blocked shots. Junior guard Ben Toebbe came in averaging 19.1 points and finished with 14 points and 10 rebounds for a double-double to go with three assists and senior guard Cole Hicks had 10 points.

 

"Owen Alcorn was the king (Friday)," Listerman said. "He's a different type of five (center) who can step out and shoot the three. We knew it going in. We did not do a good job of guarding him in the first half in particular from behind the arc. We did a nice job on the Toebbe kid, but then we let another guy Cole Hicks have a really good night getting in double figures. We talked to our guys about the importance of being able to defend, especially guys off the bounce in the postseason so we're going to make a real concerted effort over the next three days in practice to try to correct that as best as we can."

 

Eighth-grade guard Scotty Draud came in and scored six points for Beechwood. He is the son of former Highlands standout Scott Draud.

 

Beechwood built the lead to 31-18 in the first half before Highlands finished the half with a 9-0 run to cut it to 31-27 at halftime.

 

Highlands trailed 45-37 after three. But after a Greene score, Finfrock hit two tough shots on Alcorn getting him in foul trouble to trim the lead to 45-43. But Beechwood responded with six straight.

 

Traylor hit a three-pointer to cut the lead to 53-50 with 2:50 left in the game. Following an exchange of scores, Beechwood milked some of the clock before scoring.

 

The Tigers led 59-52 before Greene converted a three-point play with 27.3 seconds left to make it 59-55 Tigers. Beechwood then made four free throws to finish the game.

 

Highlands earned the second seed in the 36th District Tournament at Dayton. The Bluebirds take on Newport (14-15) at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday in a battle to go to the 9th Region Tournament.

 

Fort Thomas Matters Sports: Senior Night Split for Highlands

He played about 10 min with no point

 

Wow. Only 10 min? Has his production fallen off that much?

Posey merits more minutes than that . Did something happen to see his minutes reduced so much ?

Posey merits more minutes than that . Did something happen to see his minutes reduced so much ?

 

Well they started 5 of the Sr's, 3 normally start and 2 don't. I believe they played the first 4-5 minutes where apparently they fell behind early.

 

As far as minutes the rest of the game I wasnt there so its hard to say.