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Jan 5, 2009 Check Out previous Blogs OK--it's finally over now. Most students have enjoyed a 2 week holiday from their studies. It'll be back to the grindstone on Monday. While you were gone, there were tons of Christmas cookies (oops...I forgot...they're gone now), holiday tournaments, followed by breaks and then the resumption of games. Some highlights from the Holiday tournaments-- When the Neosho girls won their Holiday tournament for the first time, there were some smiles and some frowns. Despite beating Springfield 51-37 in the title tilt, Neosho's leading scorers, Savannah Snow went down with an injury to her left leg. At that point, her sister took things into her own hands. She scored 21, including 5 treys, was named the Tourney MVP and scored her 1000th point of her career after the injury. Ironically, Savannah injured her other leg in last year's tournament ! At Ozark, it was a sweep ! Yes the boys and Girls teams won the Blue & Gold (boys) tournament and the Girls captured the Pink & White(Girls) titles at McDonald Arena in Springfield over the Break as each team knocked of Glendale for the championship! The Lady Tigers (9-1) avenged an earlier loss to the Falcons (6-4) 52-41. Bri Anton finished with a game-high 18 points for Ozark Yes--one super player can carry a team offensively--just ask Carthage. Carthage was smelling upset as they led the Mt Vernon Mountaineers 42-28 after 3 quarters. At that point, Zach Klein took over for the Mountaineers. He dropped in 21 4th quarters points as Mt Vernon outscored Carthage 30-12 in the final quarter to grab 58-54 win. The 6-5 Jr Klein finished with 37 points including a sizzling 19 of 21 (including 18 straight!) from the charity stripe. The Nixa Lady Eagles were outrebounded 35-24 on the boards as they fell to Midwest, Oklahoma in the Championship game of the Lady Classic 55-44. The Eagles had a comfortable 23-11 lead but the deficit on the boards proved to be the difference. Bryant Allen was last seen prancing into the end zone after a long return, or an interception or a long catch, not now. Now's he's back to knocking down baskets. Allen scored the winning basket in the STATE Championship game with 4 seconds left. This year, he's up to his old tricks. He scored 36 points in leading the Maplewood Richmond-Hts Blue Devils to a 63-58 win in the Championship game of the Normandy Tournament. Allen is headed to the University of Minnesota where he intends to play football and basketball. Traveling to Arizona, the St Joseph Academy Angels were invited to compete in a national tournament. Talk about "toughening up your squad". Take a look at the trip and you'll easily see that a won-lost record doesn't always tell the complete story. Seeded 16th, the Angels opened with the #1 seed from California. St Marys (#1 seed) was ranked #1 in the USA Today rankings. Three of their players are high D-1 players. Scouts from UCLA, USC, Texas, Notre Dame, Uconn, Stanford, Michigan, Tennessee and many more filled the seats to watch St Marys. St Joe was within 5 points with 2 minutes remaining but fell. The Angels then knocked off Lincoln (Dallas, Tx) in round two. Brea(Cal) beat the Angels by 11 but were within 3 points with 1:08 when SJA missed a trey, began fouling and fell out of the game. The final round game against Clovis was a carbon copy of the Brea game. Three losses--four great games against the nations best teams. Do the losses really matter ?
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