Varsity Girls Lose to Schenectady Christian

March 4, 2010 • Andrea Warner, Staff Writer  
Filed under Sports

A joyful victory for Schenectady Christian High School means a devastating loss for Voorheesville High School on Friday, February 26^th at Maple High School. After a fairly close win to lose season ratio, members of the Voorheesville Girls Varsity Basketball team lost their sectional game to Schenectady Christian School, by just three points. With just a few seconds left in the game, sophomore Monica Compton (#3) grabbed the lead with some foul shots making the final score of the game 45-42.

Starting the game in a 1-3-1 zone defense, Schenectady Christian knocked down a few shots early. Senior Emily Norris from Voorheesville stated that she and her teammates were not expecting Schenectady Christian to make too many outside shots. She said from their scouting reports on Schenectady Christian they only had one girl, #34 junior Rachel Bush, that could shoot from the outside and they were planning to close out hard on Rachel and not give her any chance to shoot.

Although Schenectady Christian did earn the first two points in the game, the Voorheesville Varsity girls did not loose focus. When subs came in about half way through, the game picked up speed and pressure by extending the zone into a 1-3-1 full court press which means the defensive team can be moved out to full court using speed and aggressiveness to its fullest potential.

After half time, the girls returned back on the court, Schenectady Christian in the lead 10-5. Voorheesville came out in a man defense and added in some traps which helped their team a lot. In the last quarter, Voorheesville was up by four points but did not pass the ball when they were supposed to which made them fall behind. The girls also did not shoot when they were supposed to. Emily Norris stated that her team worked very hard over break on their catch shots, but in the end they came up short. The snow for the past week didn’t help them either. The girls were not able to scrimmage because of snow cancellations. Norris said the amount of turnovers her team had affected the game and they should not have had that many. “Over all, I would say the effort was there but we couldn’t make our shots.”

While this was a great ending to the Basketball season for four seniors at Schenectady Christian, seniors Britney Creed, Emily Norris, Elizabeth Madden and Amelia Martin ended their High School Basketball career on a bitter sweet note.

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