WBB: Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference

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moseshightower

Interesting weekend in the SCAC, for the first time that I can remember Oglethorpe's trip through Texas next weekend will be significant.   With the number of turnovers the Petrels have been forcing and the number the Tigers have been giving, it could be a wild game on Friday.

hoopsfan11

Oglethorpe went 3-0 in their first three conference games (men and women).  The women took a talented Rhodes team to overtime and scored 17 points in OT to win by 6.  On Sunday, they held Hendrix to 20 points below their scoring average and won by 18.  Hendrix tried to mount a comeback in the second half cutting the gap to 8 points, but they couldn't get any farther than that with as few players as they are playing.  Oglethorpe is exciting to watch.  We'll see how they can perform on the road.

moseshightower

Oglethorpe #24 this week, probably the first time ever that the Petrels will be somewhat of a favorite against Trinity.  The Kulavic kid must be pretty good, SCAC POW three times already. 

Ron Boerger

The disadvantage of having to travel from Atlanta may make it more of a toss-up, but Oglethorpe has been playing well enough to have earned the favorite's role.  Too bad Trinity had to shoot 33% from the FT line against Bates, otherwise it'd be a battle of two one-loss teams.   OU's only loss, however, is to Division I Davidson. 

Lots of young players on that team ... Kulavic, Findlay, Jones, Grace are all first years.  A team on the rise which should be potent for some time.  It would be nice if the OU SID would file on occasional game story on d3hoops.   

hoopsfan11

Just to add to Ron's last post...OU actually has 12 freshmen on the roster, and they start 4 freshmen (Kulavic, Gowan, Richmann, and Brooks).  In fact, 7 of what is probably considered their top 8 players are freshmen.  The only upperclassman that starts now that Brittany Corbett is out with an ACL tear is point guard Erin Flynn.

tigerbball

Trinity University will be hosting the NCAA Take a Kid to a Game on Jan. 22 in our contest vs. Hendrix.  There will be free admission for all and other activities planned for the youngsters.  email me with any questions at laura.skeen@trinity.edu
Laura J. Skeen
Assistant Coach
Trinity University

SCACFollower21

Katie Kulavic from Oglethorpe was selected on the d3hoops.com team of the week for the second time. It will be interesting to see how she and the young Oglethorpe team fairs against Trinity and Southwestern.

Ron Boerger

#52
Final from San Antonio: Trinity 103, Oglethorpe 92.

From the box, it looks like OU's lack of depth may have been a factor.  Only eight women played for the Stormy Petrels, with one of those (Tina Grace) seeing only two minutes.   

Leading scorers:
OU:  Flynn 25 (6-12 from beyond the arc), Richmann 21, Gowan 13, Kulavic and Jones 10 each.
TU:  Dawson 19, Schobel 18, Prato-Matthews and Farrar 14 each, McDaniel 12, Hannon 11. 

Rebounding:  OU 19-29, 48 (Richmann 9, Kulavic 8, Brooks 7); TU 38-31, 69 (Farrar and Prato-Matthews 13, Scholbe 12).  Farrar had ten offensive rebounds!

Assists:  OU 20 (Brooks 6); TU 23 (McDaniel 8 )
Turnovers:  OU 34, TU 25.
Blocked Shots:  OU 2 (Richmann, Finley), TU 4 (King 3)
Steals:  OU 12 (Kulavic 4), TU 20 (McDaniel, Scholbe 6)
Fouled out:  OU Gowan (in 20 minutes), TU Scholbe (in 18)

Shooting:  OU 28-66, 42.4%; TU 39-94, 41.5%
3FG:  OU 11-26, 42.3%; TU 4-11, 36.4%
FTs:  OU 25-37, 67.6%; TU 21-34, 61.8%

     Oglethorpe    57  35   92
     Trinity       43  60  103


OU shot 59.4% in the first half, 26.5% in the second.
TU shot 40.9% first half, 42.0% second. 

Rematch in Atlanta in a few weeks ... should be a good one!

Ron Boerger

Trinity's narrow loss to Bates (in OT) seems more impressive now that Bates knocked off #3 Bowdoin 56-51.   Maybe if the women win on Sunday they will get back into the top 25. 

Ron Boerger

Oglethorpe (13-2, 4-1 SCAC) 80, @Southwestern (8-8, 3-2) 74 ...
@Trinity (12-2, 5-0) 76, Millsaps (6-9, 1-4) 63 as TU forced 30 turnovers
@DePauw (15-1, 5-0) 106, Sewanee (9-6, 1-4) 66 - DPU got 32 from Liz Bondi on 14-17 shooting
Centre 68 (3-11, 1-4), @Rose-Hulman (8-7, 1-4) 62

OUfan22

To add more on the OU vs. Trinity game on top of just stats, both teams played well...Looking at the big picture, OU played a great first half leading by 14 at halftime, and Trinity played a great second half and ended up outscoring OU by 25...Trinity's second half just seemed to be a little bit better then OUs first...

Trinity's determination was something to be admired being down 14 at halftime, and it just seemed like the petrels weren't ready for it...this is one of the first games that OU has not had more steals than the opposing team...However, rebounding was the biggest factor, Trinity had 38 offensive rebounds allowing them to shoot 90 something shots!

I can say that the petrels are more than ready for another shot at the tigers and they will be ready when Trinitiy comes to atlanta...it should be another great game

Ralph Turner

OUfan22, what about the Lady Petrels***  against Southwestern?  You only won by 6.  Can you comment?  (Southwestern is only 2-4 vs. the ASC-West.)

***(What do you call a female petrel?  :D )

airball1

Against Southwestern, Oglethopre held a commanding 20 point lead midway through 2 half and slowed down maybe a little to early but considering the second road game in three days in Texas and first conference road trip for this freshmen laden team not to bad. They were not looking for point spread but a W. Also, Friday's game with Trinity was a very physical fast paced game.
By the way, a quickly improving Southwestern squad had won five in a row before this game.
A lady petrel is a STORMY PETREL!

Ralph Turner

Quote from: airball1 on January 16, 2006, 05:19:57 PM

A lady petrel is a STORMY PETREL!

And no guy wants to see the angry side of a STORMY PETREL! :D :D :D

Thanks for the report!  That is a good road trip!

OUfan22

     As airball1 said, the petrels had the lead in the second half up to 19 points but Southwestern finally caught on to the press, got the ball up the floor, and started getting wide open threes near the end of the game...from what I hear they have not shot that well all year...

    Also, southwestern's inside game was hard to defend in the halfcourt...OU small posts are forced to front and even helpside from the small gaurds couldn't stop George from scoring...

   The lady pirates just got hot near the end and that, added to the fact that OU was probably a little worn out on a sunday game on the road was the reason for the slim 6 point difference...

   They still took care of business even though it wasn't pretty...the game at home should show a wider spread