Scrimmage games start up soon. What are some of the good ones to look for?

Scrimmage games start up soon. What are some of the good ones to look for?

 

Boone County will go to South Oldham on November 12. Should be a good battle. They competed at Boone last preseason and I was impressed with South Oldham, particularly Jasmine Whitfield, and I watched her get better all summer. South Oldham has a bunch of returning players.

 

Boone also has a November 22 trip up to Cincinnati Colerain which should be a really good test. Colerain has four senior starters back from last year's team that beat Ryle by 16, and has really good overall size. That's a Tuesday evening but I'll probably make the 4 hour trip to watch.

Anderson County will scrimage Ryle on November 11 i believe. Should be a good match up between two of the better teams in their respective regions. I think it will be played at Anderson County.

Perry Co. Central vs. Ashland Blazer in a preseason game. They will play Nov. 19 at Sheldon Clark High School at 5 o'clock.

Perry Co. Central vs. Ashland Blazer in a preseason game. They will play Nov. 19 at Sheldon Clark High School at 5 o'clock.

 

That should be a good one. I'm hearing PCC is loaded with about everybody back and a couple of good transfers and that Ashland could be very good as well.

 

If you are able to watch the scrimmage please give us a summary.

What about the games on Fri. the 11th and Sat. Nov. the 12th at Scott County.

anyone know who is playing and when in Paris Lady Greyhounds panorama on Saturday, Nov. 12

What about the games on Fri. the 11th and Sat. Nov. the 12th at Scott County.

 

Here ya go:

 

Scott County Hoopfest

Scott County High School

November 11-12

 

November 11

5:30---Sayre & Shelby County

6:40---Collins & Tates Creek

7:50---Berea & Pendleton County

9:00---Ryle & Anderson County

 

November 12

11:15---Cooper & Dunbar

12:30---Casey County & St. Henry

1:45----Casey County & Bryan Station

3:00----Carroll County & Jeffersontown

4:15----Beechwood & Harrison County

5:30----South Laurel & Assumption

6:45----Madison Central & Owen County

8:00----Scott County & Montgomery County

anyone know who is playing and when in Paris Lady Greyhounds panorama on Saturday, Nov. 12

 

And this one:

 

Ladyhound Panorama

Paris High School

November 12

 

1:00---Rowan County & Highlands

3:00---Mason County & Lafayette

5:00---Paris & Powell County

Can anyone shed a light on the situation with the Lady Hound team for this year. Heard they have a new coach, lost players to transfer to Bourbon County. Can someone confirm this?

Anderson beats Ryle tonight by 9 (at Scott County)

Can anyone shed a light on the situation with the Lady Hound team for this year. Heard they have a new coach, lost players to transfer to Bourbon County. Can someone confirm this?

 

I know they have a new coach, the job was listed for a bit on KHSAA job openings. I also knew they lost players to Bourbon but am unaware of the full details.

Looks like the favorite to win the 8th region has gotten off to a good start. The Lady Bearcats should have a very enjoyable 2011-12 season.

Anderson beats Ryle tonight by 9 (at Scott County)

Looks like the favorite to win the 8th region has gotten off to a good start. The Lady Bearcats should have a very enjoyable 2011-12 season.

 

I didn't know that Anderson was "the" favorite to win the 8th!

 

South Oldham beats Boone by 10 in today's scrimmage game- scrappy, physical play most of the game by both teams!

I didn't know that Anderson was "the" favorite to win the 8th!

 

South Oldham beats Boone by 10 in today's scrimmage game- scrappy, physical play most of the game by both teams!

 

South Oldham did outscore Boone by 10 over the first four quarters of the five the varsities played and they are a very solid, senior dominated team that is going to be a tough out for anybody. They definitely outscrapped Boone for the first two quarters as Boone didn't seem to come ready to play.

 

But, as is the case with most early scrimmages, there is more there than the the score. Boone coach Nell Fookes took the scrimmage as an opportunity to get some of her new players a real baptism under fire. She played with lineups a lot and, for some extended periods of time, had lineups on the floor with no more than one starter out there, sometimes with two freshman guards. The result was a Boone team that turned the ball over more than 30 times and didn't do much offensively most of the time. As an example of Coach Fookes' approach, her go-to-player, Sydney Moss, played less than a quarter and a half of the first two and had only 3 shots in those two. Obviously that isn't how Boone is going to play when games count.

 

But South Oldham played it's starters much more than Boone and I don't think both Whitfield and Dye were off the floor at the same time, and both were out there most of the time. Whitfield is an outstanding player but it was Dye who did the most scoring damage for South Oldham in this scrimmage. She did pretty much what she wanted most of the time, taking it to the basket, facing up and scoring, and posting up for close-in baskets. But South Oldham's overall experience level with having seven or eight seniors was a big factor as well, particularly when Boone had several new players on the floor at once.

 

To take nothing away from South Oldham because, as I said, they are very, very good, but the extra quarter had Coach Fookes keeping her most experienced players on the floor (as did South Oldham) up until the last 1 to 1-1/2 minutes and Boone won that quarter 17-6, actually leading 15-2 with about 2 minutes left. Boone's intensity was considerably higher in this quarter with the continuity of line up being a factor.

 

As I started with, there is usually more than scores to preseason scrimmages. That said, I don't think either South Oldham's 10 point differential over four separately scored quarters or Boone's 11 point margin in the extra period tells it all about either of these teams as far as how their seasons will go. I think I would have to favor South Oldham as the 8th Region favorite based on what I have seen. Boone will obviously go through some ups and downs if Fookes chooses to play her freshmen a good bit, and I'm betting she will, but when the Lady Rebels stick to their main players with experience they are very tough. But the experience gained by the younger players may prove very valuable later in the season.