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Colonels (8-9) Wednesday, Coach Renner & Co. will host his former team - 10th ranked Ballard.

Raiders (11-6) Friday, look to extend their seven game win streak at District rival Conner.

Oldham was up 3 at the half, Ryle had a nice second half.

18 hours ago, 4 Quarters said:

Oldham was up 3 at the half, Ryle had a nice second half.

I watched it on Fox 19. Oldham`s active zone was very successful in the first half and Ryle shooting was suspect as is usually the case in gyms as large as Xavier's. Especially from a team that is not used to playing is such large stadiums. Oldham played very good in spurts,  soph Kye Bowan had something like 18 pts and Fr Matt Withrow played lights out as well, and had 17 or 18 pts ( plus a monster dunk!). Ty Bryant ended with 10 or so but was just completely out of it the whole game. Some of it was Ryle pressure but it just wasn't his game, as he missed several easy buckets that he normally converts. Sr Will Hinkle played very well as well. Bottom line Oldham is going to struggle until they get some guys to step up off of their bench against good teams. I think they got a total of 3 points from their bench, and some critical turnovers against Ryle pressure while bench players were in.  They have to have everyone in their starting 5 score against good teams to win, and that is just not a recipe for success against good , solid teams. Ryle is a good solid team with some seasoned players and it showed down the stretch. They whipped Oldham on the boards and made them play the whole length of the floor which wore Oldham down late. Oldham is just a year away and honestly a couple of players that need to sell out to becoming stronger and better players. They have the talent to do so, they just need to put the time in in the off season to learn to be successful varsity players.