Friday, January 23, 2009

Pioneers Take One on the Chin...

The SK Boys traveled to Scott for their second game of the Kenton County Classic tonight. The Pioneers came up on the short end of the score by a final of 69-43. Langdon Barnes led SK with 16 points. I really thought that SK played hard but just playing hard didn’t get it against Scott’s intense defense tonight.

The half-time score was 35-24. SK trailed by 18 in the second but got a nice little run at the end of the half after 4 straight points by Austin Baldwin and a traditional 3 point play by Barnes. The Pioneers got a couple of early buckets in the third but couldn’t sustain the momentum and went down by mid-twenties. SK was hurt by poor foul shooting as they only connected on 2 out of 15 shots from the stripe. The Pioneers fall to 5-10 on the season and have lost 6 out of the last 7 games.

What is the official rule about slapping the backboard? SK was whistled for a technical foul for such a play. The Eagles committed the same violation on three occasions but didn’t get tagged with the T. Here is the link for the rules interpretation. http://www.nfhs.org/core/contentmanager/uploads/Technical_Foul_Penalty_Summary.pdf

I am not sure when it is called or not and there was obviously something I was missing last nigh; if you know, post away.

Barnes connected on this for the traditional three point play.
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Mrs. Barwell at half-time.
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I'm sure Coach Steiner had some good questions tonight.
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Chambers attempts the drive.
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Austin Baldwin keyed a nice Pioneer run at the end of the first half. He certainly gets after it.
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Lanham with a strong move.
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