Briefly

Lost at South Side. Played better than we did against Snider, but had a bad stretch in the third quarter that cost us. In our two losses, the third quarter has been the reason. I guess I need to do a better job at halftime. Some people question our conditioning, but we are rarely outplayed in the second or fourth quarters, times you would expect for that to show up. No, it's the third quarter, so maybe I need to take a look at our mental preparation and figure out why sometimes we aren't ready to play coming out of the break.

Wawasee Saturday was a pretty good day. Played man the entire game and seemed to get comfortable in the run and jump defense in the half court. Their ball handling was not very good, so it was easier to attack them. It was obvious that they were mentally and physically defeated by the end of the first half. We put four girls in double figures, but I was more interested in how we played defense. It was a step in the right direction.

We've got a couple days of prep for Huntington now. We're slowly adding sets as we go through the season, but I want to concentrate on doing a limited number of things very well. No sense in putting in 20 offensive sets and not being able to run any of them effectively. Once again, I am more interested in what we are doing at the defensive end. If we worked as hard at trying to keep people from scoring as we do to score ourselves, this team could be pretty good. Hopefully, we will see another solid defensive effort Thursday at Huntington.