A big key in the first half, we were able to stay within two points, with Calkins sitting out. |
Adam got us off to a good start in the first quarter. |
Calkins was a perfect 6-for-6 from the line in the fourth quarter. |
Champlain Valley is not the kind of team that you can come back from a big deficit like we were forced to do tonight. We have got to find our offense. |
I thought overall for the game we had better focus and we worked real hard right from the beginning. |
It was a game of runs. We got off to a good start, shooting 9-for-13 in the first quarter, then they went on a run that lasted for two quarters. |
Rice's defense took both Ethan Paquette and Garrett Calkins right out of the game. |
Their match-up zone presented a lot of problems for us tonight. The zone took away Garrett's penetration. |
We had some good looks at the basket against their zone in the first quarter, but you can't shoot 1-for-15 like we did. |
We had trouble guarding Essex in the first half. We got to within two points in the fourth quarter and made a 3-pointer at the buzzer to make the score, 51-50. |
We made our foul shots - 9-for-13 - down the stretch when we needed to. |
You had to be impressed with Harwood, they never gave up. Their small lineup and quickness gave us fits. I felt that they took the game to us over the final three quarters. |