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Reg: 07-30-06
02-15-08 09:47 AM - Post#43797    

What a great game. Too bad only 832 saw it take place and that, as they say, includes players, coaches, and concession stand workers. Attendance or better yet, lack thereof, can wait for another post.

So, what did everyone miss? Well, for starters 143 FG attempts that netted 155 points. Lehigh actually tossed up 67 shots - 17 more than the norm. Heck, we took 20 trays (12 more than usual) and hit 7 of them - twice what we've grown accustom to - again proving to themselves and to their fans that they can be something more than the one dimensional (dump it into the post and hope for the best) shooting team we too often see take the court. They played an entertaining up-tempo style of game and almost pulled it out in the end.

The game saw 12 lead changes, 9 ties, and three Mountain Hawks in double figures led by Marquis Hall with 25 on 9 for 17 shooting. Rob Keefer, gunning for his next Rookie of the Week honor, kept us in the game in the early going with 10 points and six boards while Zahir Carrington somehow chipped in 17 in far too limited play (21 minutes). His first foul, at the 12 second mark of the first half, brought out Reed's hook and we didn't see Zahir for 8 + minutes. Makes you wonder how good we could be as a team if Zahir could only stay on the floor. B. White, the league's leading rebounder had 10 boards. Another notable performance came from Phil Anderson who gave the team extended minutes of play (19) and and showed a seldom seen bit of aggression under the basket pulling down four key rebounds.

So where did we go wrong? In my mind it was not letting Sprink, Harris and Kina score 52 of the team's 80 points. They do that and more every night they play (in PL contests this year, the trio puts up 59+ points or 74% of the Midshipmen points). It was digging an early hole for ourselves (falling behind as much as 10 in the early going), weak rebounding (38 to Navy's 47....with only 8 to Navy's 17 on the offensive boards), second chance points (6 to Navy's 23...again keyed to offensive rebounding), and the free throw shooting differential (12 for 16 compared to Navy's 25 for 29...many made necessary in a furious attempt to win the game in the final seconds).

All except for the final score, it was a fun night.

We get our next chance to move up a peg in the tight PL race on Saturday night as the Mountain Hawks play host to Army.


 
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