Thursday, December 27, 2012
Snow Falls, Shots Don't as Melrose Drops Semi to Tewksbury
Melrose hosted Tewksbury in the opening round of the Holiday Hoop-a-La Tournament. The visitors scored first, led 8-2, and never trailed as Melrose fell to 1-3 with a 39-32 defeat.
Melrose struggled offensively throughout the night, as Tewksbury switched up defenses, and led 12-7 after one period and 21-15 at the half.
It wasn't turnovers as much as shooting percentage as Melrose shot only 20 percent for the evening, unofficially 10-49.
With Melrose trailing 33-22 after three, Melrose faced a tall task of trying to come back with a struggling offense. They did go inside to Kayla Wyland (10 points, 12 rebounds) but it was not enough as Tewksbury's Semenza and Porcaro made key plays down the stretch to hold the lead. Ashley Harding had 6 rebounds off the bench in a losing cause.
Melrose will face Burlington at 5 P.M. in the consolation game.
Melrose struggled offensively throughout the night, as Tewksbury switched up defenses, and led 12-7 after one period and 21-15 at the half.
It wasn't turnovers as much as shooting percentage as Melrose shot only 20 percent for the evening, unofficially 10-49.
With Melrose trailing 33-22 after three, Melrose faced a tall task of trying to come back with a struggling offense. They did go inside to Kayla Wyland (10 points, 12 rebounds) but it was not enough as Tewksbury's Semenza and Porcaro made key plays down the stretch to hold the lead. Ashley Harding had 6 rebounds off the bench in a losing cause.
Melrose will face Burlington at 5 P.M. in the consolation game.
// posted by Ron Sen, MD, FCCP @ 10:25 PM 
