Oak Hill vs. Hall-Dale

On Saturday, January 2nd Oak Hill girls basketball played Hall-Dale high school. Oak Hill won the opening tip off. Both teams started out in a zone. Oak Hill was in a 1-3-1, and Hall-Dale a 2-3 zone. The first quarter we came out  fired up and ready to go, and by the end of the first quarter we were up 14-2. After the first quarter, things went downhill. We got lazier on defense and weren’t making very smart passes. By the end of the first half, they were up 25-15. Coming out in the second half, we were still in zone and they went man to man for a little while, then jumped into a 1-2-2 zone. We couldn’t seem to get something going. We got some good shots up but we weren’t playing very good defense, so Hall-Dale got a few easy baskets. We ended up losing the game 32-38.

This game was a learning experience for most of our team. It was a game that we let slip away from us. The lesson we all learned from the game was, if you come out strong the first quarter and get a good lead, it doesn’t mean the next quarter you can hang back. If you want to keep the lead, you have to work for the lead. I think that we all got a little too comfortable with the lead, when we should have worked just as hard the last three quarters and we did the first quarter. We really needed to stop their inside drives, and we were in the beginning, but once again we let up and they took full advantage of it. We needed to stay in a good defensive stance, and move on every pass, and I think we can be a very successful team. The top scorers of that game were GSabine16, with 8 points, and SNoel16 with 7 points.

We use the Hall-Dale game as a way to look back and know what we aren’t suppose to do. It was a huge learning experience for us. Now, we’ve had a few games since then, and our defense has been much, much stronger. We aren’t letting up anymore. We don’t want another upset like our game against Hall-Dale. I’m proud of my team for working through this, and becoming better, and really learning from that game. It can only go up from here, if we put the time and effort into the game.