Friday night the women travelled to Abbottsford to play Columbia Bible College. We had already beaten CBC in exhibition play but this was another historic game since it was our first league game at Quest. The women have worked really hard over the last two years to put themselves into a position to compete in the league. The women had a great first half. Defensively we were very good. I gave the task of shutting down their best player to Charlotte Lau who took the challenge with enthusiasm and competitiveness. Ashley Rudanec of CBC shoots the ball really well and was coming off a game where she hit 6 three pointers. Charlotte did an outstanding job holding their best scorer to 1-7 shooting from the field, 0-3 from the three point line and a total of 4 points for the game. Defense is always a team effort and the Quest women have worked hard to make this part of their game consistent. With the good first half we were up 40-15. I thought we could have played better offensively, making more layups and running more effective half court offenses(coaches are never happy). The good teams in the league will not allow us to get second chances after we miss our initial lay up or if we do not run a good offense. We did have a big advantage inside and it was our goal that if we were not able to run the ball then we needed to get it inside to Allie and Nicola. Our plan worked and we were able to get some easy scores inside while pressuring them defensively into turnovers which led to easy scores. Our third quarter was not so good. We did not score for the first three minutes which was pretty frustrating as we were playing down to their level and not playing up to ours. We finally got going but were only able to outscore them by 3 in the third. We went on to have a decent 4th quarter and we ended up winning our first league game 70-35. I was happy for the girls, we are now 1-0. We had really balanced scoring this game which is what we need. Allie Chalke was great and led all scorers with 21 points on 8-12 shooting. Nicola had 13 points but needs to more consistent with her touch inside to make us a contender against the good teams in the league. Our shooting percentage also needs to be higher if we are to challenge for a playoff spot. We shot 35 percent against a team that let us shoot from wherever we wanted. Outside of Allie our shooting percentage was horrible. Chelsey 2-8(great from the line though 5-6), Britt Shalagan 2-7. Allison Black 1-5, Charlotte 2-12(3-4 FT), Nicola 7-15 and Britt Harteveld 5-19.
This week it is back to practice as we get ready for a road trip to Nanaimo where we will play Vancouver Island University. Hope to see you there and thanks to all the parents, family and friends who were at the game on Friday......coach Hann
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