Well, I've been really bad about keeping up with timely posts about our games. After my last post, where things seemed pretty hopeless. Then we lost to St. Anselm's and The Field School. But in the 4th quarter of the Field game, something changed. I walked to our point guard and said, "Andrew, you have to score, or we're hopeless." At the time, I didn't realize that I was referring to our entire season, but I was. Once he started attacking the basket and hitting threes, our entire season turned around. We started out with a 10 point victory of Queen Anne, 57-47, a mediocre team. A good win for us nonetheless.
Next up was a somewhat more significant. We played the Washington International School. We were up at the half, but down by 13 going into the fourth quarter. Our head coach called a full court man press and we fought and clawed our way back into the game. With time running out, our center Daniel hit a tough put-back to send the game into overtime. In OT we basically just outplayed WIS to a 56-51 victory. Big win against a solid team. Andrew played his second brilliant game, knocking down 7 of 9 free throws in the 4th and OT, while making a number of excellent decisions.
Our next game was against Sandy Spring Friends School. They are a subpar team with one really good player, and they always give us trouble. Our head coach arrived late to the game, so the other assistant and I had to run the show for the first half. We went to the half down 9. When Coach showed up, he threw out the idea of a triangle and 2 defense, and we effectively stopped the other team. Holding their main scorer to 6 points, and pulling out a big win. Andrew was 4/4 from the 3pt line. Ehud missed most of the game after spraining his ankle.
The biggest win of our season came on January 26. We played the Barrie School, which was at this point 11-0 in conference. We systematically cut them down. We played better than we have played the entire year and beat them by 9 points.
Then we played a tough Waldorf team that gives us way too much trouble. We beat them by 8. The worst thing that happened is that Andrew broke his nose. He's now out for two huge game.
Tonight we laid an egg against Covenant Life, the second time they beat us this year. They're not that good. They only scored 21 points last night. We gave up 50. No Andrew today, and no Andrew Thursday against Jewish Day School. We'll see what happens.
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