Friday Night Winter Foulies

SK travelled to Dry Ridge tonight for their first District 32 match-up of the season versus the Grant County Braves. SK comes out on top in the game by a final of 70-59. Tom Jackson, veteran SK scorekeeper, was the hardest working man in Grant County tonight as the Neers and Braves were whistled for an amazing 63 fouls. BRUTAL.

I’m still scratching my head a bit. There were times when the referees blew their whistles when they probably shouldn’t have but both teams pressed from the beginning of the game until the end. When you have teams pressing this much, it is going to result in a lot of natural fouls. Thinking about it, the refs probably tweeted a little too much but the game plans of the game actually contributed to the hack filled contest.

It really didn’t seem like either team really ran a whole lot of offense. Offense tonight really was more of breaking the press and then breaking to the basket; usually for a two shot foul or a three point play attempt.

Senior Cody Chambers led all scorers tonight totaling 29 points. Chambers went to the line 24 times on the evening. At one point in the fourth quarter, Chambers would score 10 straight points. As a team, SK was 32 out of 51 from the foul line while Grant County was 27 out of 37….88 foul shots! Andrew Sampson and Nick Ayers would join Chambers as double figure scorers with 16 and 11 respectively. Grant County had 4 players foul out on the night while SK had just one when Swanson took to the chair shortage bench.

The JV team would come out in a big way tonight by taking Grant County 52-28.

The girls team will host defending Regional Champion Walton-Verona at the Joe tomorrow night.

Chambers gets tagged on one of his trips to the rim.


Swanny tasting the new Jordans after picking up his fourth.


"Did you happen to see what the feature is up at the Cracker Barrel?


QB Kuntz with the last second pass attempt that went for an incompletion.


Lots of free throw line-ups tonight.


Part of the entourage looking over some stats.


Another foul


Ayers with a nice defensive play.


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Probably would have been better to have backed this one out but it turned into guess what?  Yep, two foul shots.