Friday, December 14, 2012
Reading 51 Melrose 32
Melrose hoped to get off to a fast start this season, but defending state champion Reading had other ideas as Olivia Healy led the Rockets to a 51-32 win.
Reading rode a 21-9 first period to an insurmountable 36-20 lead, and Melrose could never recover.
The Rockets stifled Melrose with excellent individual assignment defense featuring excellent help and solid defensive rebounding. This helped force sixteen first half turnovers which also limited the Melrose offense. The Rockets also used a relatively passive 1-2-2 "jug" trap, which had little impact on Melrose.
Melrose couldn't really get a lot of offensive flow going thanks to the Reading defense. And Healy must have had at least thirty points as she did the lioness' share of the damage offensively.
For the game (unofficially) Melrose was 14 for 54 from the field, 10 for 46 on two pointers, but 4 for 8 from three-point land. Melrose was 0 for 4 from the line.
Sydney Doherty led Melrose with eleven points including a trio of treys and Katie Sullivan added eight points.
Melrose showed some new wrinkles including a lot of 2-3 zone and some new zone trap action.
Reading rode a 21-9 first period to an insurmountable 36-20 lead, and Melrose could never recover.
The Rockets stifled Melrose with excellent individual assignment defense featuring excellent help and solid defensive rebounding. This helped force sixteen first half turnovers which also limited the Melrose offense. The Rockets also used a relatively passive 1-2-2 "jug" trap, which had little impact on Melrose.
Melrose couldn't really get a lot of offensive flow going thanks to the Reading defense. And Healy must have had at least thirty points as she did the lioness' share of the damage offensively.
For the game (unofficially) Melrose was 14 for 54 from the field, 10 for 46 on two pointers, but 4 for 8 from three-point land. Melrose was 0 for 4 from the line.
Sydney Doherty led Melrose with eleven points including a trio of treys and Katie Sullivan added eight points.
Melrose showed some new wrinkles including a lot of 2-3 zone and some new zone trap action.
// posted by Ron Sen, MD, FCCP @ 9:06 PM 
