4 hours ago, GoBucks97 said:

Wow major surprise by the margin of victory especially without arguably your second or 3rd best player. They play like this they will get through the region with ease, even though that has been questioned since the Conner game. With this score and the GC-Conner score, I’ll go ahead and say that game was their wake up anomaly!

The Connor game was an off night and teams have them……for the great teams those games are as you said wake up calls.  And The Colonels were awake tonight and back into Championship form.

As for the margin of victory I am not shocked at all as Highlands is not strong or tight at all on Defense and as they showed tonight can be sloppy with the ball.  Their early season schedule did not battle test Highlands as The Colonels play in big games almost nightly.  It’s just a tale of 2 different teams on 2 different trajectories.  And I think what the game stood for tonight with the added emotion and circumstance had The Colonels as fired up as a team can be.

And for Hussey, not sure at all why He was out.  And yes, Hussey has become their go to dominant #2 option, but He had His worst game of the year vs Connor and more importantly I firmly believe Link, who was a monster tonight, is beyond capable of having games like this with this kind performance.  Hussey will be fine and Link stepping up down the stretch will make The Colonels even more dangerous.  I expect an even better result this Friday Night at Home Vs. Lloyd, but that is for another thread.

Go Colonels.

When was the last time Herald was kept under double digits? 

3 minutes ago, Kenny Powers said:

When was the last time Herald was kept under double digits? 

Probably never.  

7 minutes ago, Kenny Powers said:

When was the last time Herald was kept under double digits? 

Newport held him to 6 points a couple of weeks ago and McCracken Co. held him to 4 over the holidays. 

I watched Highlands and Holy Cross last week, watched Highlands/CCH this week.  Game went about as expected.

2 hours ago, FirstTimeLongTime said:

Newport held him to 6 points a couple of weeks ago and McCracken Co. held him to 4 over the holidays. 

I figured it had to be a small number. Thanks for the info. 

This game had me at the edge of my seat until the last 60 seconds of the 1st half Birds down 4 and then BAM BAM BAM, 5-0 run to end the half down 9...... I certainly felt the wind getting knocked out of our bodies and we could never recover after that.

Highlands in these tough games NEED to find an offensive set to be able to free up Moeves and Herald.....way to many times the wrong player(s) taking shots.

I forget who the college coach was (maybe Jeff Walz) said in a press conference.  So in so had way over shot their attempt average and the coach was saying don't you think the other coaches game plan was to make you want to take that many shots???  Playing right into the opponents game plan.  

My silver lining on this game is thinking back to the 2020 season:

Regular season game @ Cov Cath, Birds take the BIG L 65-39!!

Region 9 Championship game: Birds had a chance at the end and lost only 59-54.....

My point is, this might be a fun Region 9 Tournament like many people have said before.

Don't count out my BIRDS!!!!