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Friday, December 5, 2008
‘Cats give decent showing on opening night
SPRINGFIELD — The crowd was impressive, but Springfield struggled in an opening-night loss to Lakota East.
The Wildcats’ early jitters led to an early East lead they could never overcome. For more on this game, click here.
The community support was awesome, said Mayor Warren Copeland.
For more on the rest of the games around the area click here.
This one didn’t count, but Graham played Centerville tough on opening night.
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KR-Central opening game ugly
SPRINGFIELD — Before Randon McNeil’s bucket with 2:01 remaining in the first quarter, one had to wonder if KR was ever going to score in its game against Catholic Central on Friday, Dec. 5 at a packed Jason Collier Gymnasium.
The same goes for the Irish, who led 2-0 to start the game, but never led again.
It was simply ugly. The first six minutes of the game saw bricks, fouls, missed layups, turnovers, double dribbles, traveling calls, loose balls, bad passes and more missed layups on opening night. The team’s combined for 11 points in the first quarter — with eight going to KR in the final two minutes.
But once the dust settled the team’s fought hard. KR outscored Catholic Central 18-10 to pull out a 58-49 victory. The led by as many as 17, but Central never went away pulling to within eight points late in the fourth quarter.
“(Central) never died,” said KR coach Kris Spriggs. “They came back firing and created some turnovers.”
For more on the game, click here.
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Jets’ Creamer on Urbana
Speed trumped size when Urbana beat Northeastern 57-45 on the opening night of the boys basketball season. Despite having the 6-foot-8 Aaron Hartzell and the 6-4 Reid Adkins, the Jets couldn’t handle the Hillclimbers, led by sophomore guard Anthony Marino’s 17 points.
Northeastern coach Kregg Creamer (right photo): “I highly doubt we’ll play anybody else on our schedule that can throw three or four guards on the floor that can do the things that the Urbana kids can do. They’re extremely quick. They all shoot it. They can put it on the floor. That was a great challenge for us. Their strength was probably our weakness. I thought we dominated in the paint when we got it there. We just didn’t get it there enough.”
Complete game story:
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On this date in area sports history …
Five years ago on this date, Dec. 5, 2003, the South boys basketball team hit the century mark in their season opener, beating Tecumseh 100-50.
James Cooper, who last season completed a stellar career at the College of Wooster (above photo), scored 17 points in his South debut. Read about the game after the jump.
SOUTH SHARES THE WEALTH, AND THE VICTORY OVER ARROWS
By KEVIN VAN BRIMMER, News-Sun Sports Writer
One basketball may just be enough for South after all.
On a team full of scorers and stars, everybody got their shots _ and their points _ as the Wildcats exploded for 100 points in their season opener Friday night at Tecumseh.
Four South players comfortably reached double digits, led by Nate Miller’s 27 points, in routing the Arrows 100-50.
“A lot of people looked at this team and thought we’d have to have two or three balls to keep everybody happy,” said South coach Larry Ham. “These kids find the open man.
Senior point guard Isiah Carson posted 19 points, 11 coming in a second-quarter run that opened up the game for the Wildcats. James Cooper, in his South debut, added 17 and Jabril Thomas finished with 15.
“We’re all unselfish,” Miller said. “We’re good at finding the hot hand. We get it to each other.”
Carson said he was never concerned with one or two players becoming selfish and taking the rest of the team out of the game offensively.
“We all grew up together, played basketball together,” he said. “We work well together. We scored 100, so you can’t ask for much more.”
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Ball State’s bowl situation
I have to say I completely disagree with Yahoo!’s Jason King, who questioned the backbone of Ball State.
King claims the Cardinals won’t receive any respect after declining an invitation to play Boise State in the Humanitarian Bowl.
Here’s why I disagree:
1) Until last season’s appearance in the International Bowl, the Cardinals hadn’t played in a bowl game since 1996. Does it make sense for the Cardinals to play in a bowl game 1,863 miles away from their fans?
2) Brady Hoke made a great decision by waiting to pick a bowl game. Why rush to make a decision to play in Idaho? Another big bowl game may be waiting. Any other year the Cardinals would play in a BCS game.
3) Why should Boise get a home bowl game? I can see the reasoning behind wanting the match-up, but why not play in the GMAC Bowl?
4) The MAC has bowl tie-ins, just like everyone else. According to Wikipedia: “The MAC is contracted to provide a team for three college football bowl games, the GMAC Bowl, Motor City Bowl and International Bowl. In the event that a Big East team cannot be provided for the newly created Papajohns.com Bowl, a fourth MAC team is selected.” Bowl games aren’t about great match-ups. If they were, Utah wouldn’t likely be playing Cincinnati in the Orange Bowl and we’d have a playoff (that’s a discussion for another day). The bowls are about money.
5) Why wouldn’t Ball State want to play Notre Dame? It’s an all-Indiana matchup that would never happen otherwise, and the fans would absolutely love. Who cares what kind of press it brings? The Cardinals would LOVE to knock off the biggest football school in Indiana. It wouldn’t take me long to buy tickets to that game, especially if it were in Detroit at the Motor City Bowl.
Ball State is a great football team, and they’ve had a great season, likely one that could help change the program. It would be great to see them get a chance to knock off some big boys, but they’ll never get the opportunity.
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