[Eaglesfan27]

A strong first 8 minutes has us up 17-13. Everyone rests except for Hannan who has taken a back seat early. Simmons already has 2 points and 5 assists as he has been penetrating at will and kicking out to Cornette for a 3 and 2 midrange jumpers as well as setting Gill up for 2 easy 6 footers.

With 7 minutes left, they hit a 3 to take the lead. We bring in all of our starters except for Hannan who sits for the first time. Bowers 3 point shooting should be deadly if Simmons can get him some open looks.


Simmons takes his first 3 of the game on his first possession back, as he passed to Bowers who faked the 3 dribbled inside and kicked it out. Simmons nails the open shot.

Gill with a surprising 3 as Simmons found him wide open on the wing. Next possession, Simmons fakes the 3 drives inside and passes it out to an open Bowers who drills another 3. 34-28.

With 2:16 to go, their big PF gets a 3rd foul on Cornette. We are up 39-35.

At the end of the half, we are up 39-36. We are 5 of 6 from behind the arc. Gill is surprisingly our leading scorer with 9 points, 6 of them in the paint. Simmons has 5 points and 7 assists vs 2 turnovers at the half. Hannan has 6 points, 2 boards, and a steal.

Kole leads the opposition with 8 points, 5 boards, and a block at the half. Douthit has 7 points and 3 boards.


Within the 1st minute, Kole gets a 4th foul on Cornette who is subbed out for Ziri. We'll start doubling Kole in the paint.

2 minutes later they get a 3rd and then 4th foul on Clifford. I'm going to keep him in anyway.

Guys are missing open 3's in the 2nd half especially Hannan. With 12 minutes to go, we are down 53-49. Simmons, Clifford, and Ziri all need rest.

Waters and Cornette with baskets to tie it at 53. A minute later, Waters with a beautiful drive and pass to Cornette who slams it in to give us a 57-55 lead.

A few FT's by Hannan has us up 64-59 with 7 minutes to go. He is getting exhausted so we get Bowers in for a few.

With 5 minuts to go, Bowers hits a 3 to put us 70-64.

We go to our scoring lineup to try to finish this out:

PG Waters
SG Simmons
SF Bowers
PF Cornette
C Clifford

Once Hannan is rested, he'll come back in.

After a few missed shots, Simmons drives to the hole and draws a foul. He isn't a great FT shooter, but he makes them both to put us 72-67.

On their next possession, Cornette fouls out. I decide to continue to go with scoring potential and move Bowers to PF and put in Hannan at SF.

Hannan finds Simmons in the corner, and he makes the 3 to put us up by 7 with 2 minutes to go.

Hannan misses an open 12 footer, and they close with 5. 77-72. We each miss baskets down the stretch and Simmons gets a long board and is fouled since only 29 seconds remain. He makes 1 of 2.

Clifford fouls out with 1.5 seconds left, but we win the game 81-72.


Hannan was the plauyer of the game with 19 points, 7 boards, 2 assists, and 2 steals. He shot a relatively efficient 5 of 9, 0 of 2, and 9 of 10 from the line.

Every starter except Clifford was in double digits. Simmons finished with 14 points, 7 assists, 1 board, 1 steal, and 5 turnovers. He shot 4 of 11, 2 of 5, and 4 of 6.

Gill finished with 13 points, 4 boards, and 2 assists. He shot 5 of 6, 1 of 1, and 2 of 2.

Cornette had 12 points, 4 boards, 1 steal, and 2 blocks. He shot 5 of 9, 1 of 1, and 1 of 2.

Clifford had 1 point, 13 boards, 1 assist, and 3 blocks. He shot 0 of 2 and 1 of 2 from the line.

Wayers led the bench with 9 points, 2 assists, and a steal in 17 minutes.

Bowers had 9 points on 3 of 7 shooting (3 of 4 from the arc) in just 12 minutes.

Willis with 4 points and 5 boards off the bench. Ziri played 16 minutes and only had 2 boards. He played poorly defensively as well.

Chen Li only ended up with 8 minutes played. He was 0 of 3 and had 0 points, 0 boards, 0 steals, and only 1 assist.

Cox and Bitee did not play this game.



For the opposition, Kole and Douthit both had 14 points to lead their team. Lathum, their SF had 13 and no one else had more than 5.