Warriors ‘cannot beat the sensation’ after profitable Spartan Traditional

“I am unable to beat that feeling,” stated Calhoun head coach Jaelyn Hill, who made all-tournament appearances at each North Greene and Carlinville. “It was large as a result of we had an opportunity to not be there. It was too shut for consolation.”

A loss to Greenfield earlier within the week compelled a points-allowed tiebreaker to separate the three groups, who completed 2-1 at White Pond. Calhoun received that math problem — Calhoun scored an 80, Greenfield an 89 — and used the reprieve towards the Saukees.

“It was humorous the way it occurred,” stated Calhoun coach Mark Hillen, whose workforce beat Harmony Triopia 52-12 and West Central 55-40 in pool play earlier than beating Greenfield 28-24. “The primary sport towards Triopia, the place we performed phenomenal protection, set the tone for our protection on this event.”

Protection managed the primary half of the championship sport, as Calhoun overcame a 7-6 deficit after the primary quarter to take a 14-11 lead into halftime. The Warriors have been getting the photographs they wished however may solely convert six.

“It is laborious as a result of you may’t change something,” Hill stated. “You get photographs, you simply attempt to knock them down.”

“There have been no complaints about what we did offensively within the first half,” Hillen stated. “We have been finishing up our assault, which we wished to keep away from. We didn’t flip the ball over, we obtained photographs that we didn’t end. There wasn’t a ton of vitality early within the sport. “I believe it is only a matter of making an attempt to get factors and grinding our possession.”

Issues bought simpler within the second half which noticed the Warriors outscoring the Saukees 24-9. Hill bought a layup off a steal and a 3-pointer to cap an 8-0 Calhoun run to open the third quarter and the Warriors doubled up the Saukees 22-11.

“It actually form of constructed our momentum,” Hill stated. “It was an enormous change. We took over they usually form of shut down.”

Audrey Gilman scored the Warriors’ first 5 factors of the fourth quarter and used a 14-2 surge, together with one other 3-pointer from Calhoun Hill, to make it 20 factors (38-18) with 2:10 left on senior Haley Schnelten’s basket. left.

Hill led all scorers with 14 factors, together with 12 within the second half.

“When he begins taking pictures like that,” Hillen stated of his senior guard, “we’re a really powerful workforce to defend towards. Similar to how we work the ball within the paint, when Jaelyn and our guards get going, groups simply have to choose their poison.”

Gilman, a 6-foot-1 sophomore who together with Hill was a Warriors all-tournament choice, scored 9 factors and teamed with 6-1 soph Kate Zipprich to regulate the boards. Zipprich had six factors, Schnelten 5 and sophomore Lila Simon 4 for Calhoun.

Pittsfield was joined by Hill, Gilman, Saukees teammate Madison Frieden, Greenfield’s Kylie Kinser, West Central’s Bryleigh Fox and Gabby Sievers, South County’s Mae Bandelow and Nice Hill’s Ava Womblene with 11 factors. event workforce.

Calhoun is concentrated on Monday’s video games at Marquette Catholic and Thursday’s dwelling sport towards Greenfield earlier than heading into Saturday’s Carrollton Event because the No. 3 seed. The Spartans Traditional spared the Warriors a loss in pool play, however these prices may come later within the seemingly battle for the highest postseason seed.

“It relies on how we progress,” Hillen stated of the fallout from the loss to the Tigers. “Everybody will have a look at it and assume it is a unhealthy loss. The best way that sport went, we simply shot poorly, we did not play with plenty of vitality. I hope our women used this as a lesson that it’s important to present up for each sport.”

Midway by means of January, Calhoun and Carrollton look like contenders in a two-team race for the No. 1 seed within the 13-team subsection with regionals assigned to Calhoun and Greenfield. Different sub-section feeders into the Jacksonville Routt Class 1A Sectional embrace state-ranked Okawville (No. 2) — 18-3 and the part favourite — and 19-2 Nokomis together with Father McGivney (No. 10).

McGivney is 19-2 and No. 1 in Carrollton, the place No. 4 Nokomis and the host Hawks (14-2) be part of the Griffins within the high half of the bracket, No. 2 Jersey, defending event champion Marquette and Calhoun within the Backside Eight.

“We have got to play each sport prefer it’s that sport,” Hill stated, pointing to dates towards Marquette and Greenfield the week earlier than bringing in Carrollton. “We won’t look forward.”

Calhoun’s coach echoes that stance, however acknowledges the stakes will likely be excessive within the forty eighth Woman Hawk Invitational, when the Warriors open Saturday towards Eleventh-seeded Beardstown at 6:30 p.m.

“It means the world proper now, particularly after the Greenfield loss,” Hillen stated. “Now we have to return. Marquette, this can be a sneaky sport for us as a result of they nonetheless play a really powerful schedule. Then Greenfield once more. Now we have to go about our enterprise towards these two groups in the course of the week. However the Carrollton Event, we’re wanting ahead to it and it is going to have large implications for our divisional seeding. Hopefully, we are going to do our work.”

South County 38, Greenfield 30 – The Vipers broke a 10-10 halftime tie and used 4 3-pointers within the third quarter to defeat the Tigers within the third-place sport of the Spartan Traditional. South County 11-10. Greenfield 12-9.