North Oldham vs. Warren East Predictions/Updates

[ColonelMike]

Who:  North Oldham Lady Mustangs  (7-7) vs. Warren East Lady Raiders (4-8)

When:  Saturday, 1/7/23   1:30 pm tipoff

Where:  North Oldham HS  Goshen, KY

Broadcast:  FREE, live, hi-def video coverage starts at 1 pm ET on www.pegasussportsky.com

It's been an up-and-down year for a North Oldham team that some feel has a real chance to make some noise in the 8th Region.   The Lady Mustangs are coming off a loss to Assumption on Wednesday - and will have another game Friday night versus Western - as they get ready to face the Lady Raiders.     Transfer Elizabeth Boyd is giving North Oldham a double-double average, with 13.6 ppg / 10.3 rebounds.    Though not quite the scorer that the graduated Riley Neal was (Neal graduated as the all-time leading scorer in Lady Mustang history), Boyd has been a solid scorer and a dominant worker on the glass.    Gracie Sipes (12 ppg), Katie Smith (9.8 ppg), and Katellyn Vize (8.2 ppg/7.5 rebounds) give North a balanced attack.   North's Achilles' this year, though, has been at the line, where the Lady Mustangs are hitting just 52.6% of their shots.

Warren East has also been up-and-down of late, splitting their last six games (pending Friday night's game at Barren County).    Scoring has been a challenge for WE; the Lady Raiders have been held under 50 points 8 of their 12 games to date, and have scored 40 or less four times.    Like North, free throws have been a bit of an issue (56.6%) for WEHS.    Nobody is in double digits right now for the Lady Raiders, but they feature five players who are all averaging about the same number of points per game.   

[ColonelMike]

Great trivia...

 

The coach for Warren East (Jenny Neville) is cousins with North Oldham's Katelyn Vize...   

AND

RaeEllen Jones, the post player for Warren East, is also a cousin of Katelyn's.

RaeEllen's parents are an assistant coach for WE (Nickie Jones) and bookkeepeer (Jimmy Jones) are cousins of Katelyn's family...

I just hope to be invited if this is a familly reunion and somebody's bringing food.... 😁🙄

Both teams looking to develop some consistency and hoping that this game gets them started in that direction.

www.pegasussportsky.com   1 pm ET