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QUINCY — As a lot as Quincy College girls’s basketball coach Courtney Boyd desires the Hawks to be cognizant of the sport plan and the conditions it creates, she desires them to benefit from the second as nicely.
She reminded them of that because the second half of their sixth straight victory unfolded Monday night time.
“Towards the tip of the sport, I checked out them and was like, ‘Guys, what number of are we up? What’s the maths’” Boyd stated. “They stated 14. So I used to be like, ‘Then play such as you’re up 14. Have just a little enjoyable. Convey just a little power.’”
Above all else, take pleasure in what sticking to the sport plan creates.
The Hawks acquired off to a blistering begin — they shot 52 p.c from the sector and scored 24 factors within the first quarter — and took Missouri-St. Louis’ shooters utterly out of the combination in incomes a 64-53 victory in Nice Lakes Valley Convention play at Pepsi Enviornment.
“After we inform them it’s an enormous recreation, they’re like, ‘Yeah, Coach all the time says that,’” Boyd stated. “However they’re beginning to determine we may be OK, we may be first rate if we follow the sport plan. If we don’t follow the sport plan, each recreation is hard. In order that was actually good to see within the locker room tonight.”
It additionally was good for Boyd to see the Hawks deal with adversity.
A difficulty with the shot clock resulted in a workforce technical foul on QU and UMSL taking pictures a single free throw earlier than the opening tip, placing the Hawks behind earlier than a second had ticked away. Quincy responded accordingly, successful the opening tip and scoring on a Cymirah Williams runner.
The truth is, the Hawks (12-5, 6-2 GLVC) made their first 5 pictures and by no means trailed once more.
“I instructed them, ‘That is the final time they’re going to have the lead as a result of that’s how laborious we’re going to play tonight,’” Boyd stated of the opening technical foul. “Positive sufficient, for 39 minutes and 50-some seconds, that’s the one time they’d the lead.
“Getting off to a robust begin is an enormous factor for our workforce transferring ahead. If we do have a lapse, we do have just a little little bit of wiggle room.”
Nicole McDermott led the Hawks with 22 factors, whereas Mariann Blass scored 11 factors. Chomp Danso completed with 10 rebounds. Alex Wolff led UMSL (13-4, 7-3 GLVC) with 14 factors, whereas Katie Rolfes went 0 of 9 from the sector and 0 of 6 from 3-point vary.
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