Marquette 6 - Chaminade 5

On senior night, the Chaminade Devils had to play short two seniors, captain Danny Faust and Andrew Spilling, and although the game was well played by both sides, the Marquette Mustangs ended up on top. Both teams played great defensively and the difference was the shooting accuracy of Marquette. The Mustangs big 2M, Sam Miller, was essentially shut down by Red Devil senior Jake Enwistle, which forced the Mustangs to take outside shots. Marquette senior Spencer Litzau had a fantastic game, netting three goals, all on skip shots from outside.

The Red Devil woes boil down to three things: shooting accuracy, passing accuracy and fouling on the perimeter. The first two are what I call "physical" mistakes, the kind of things you cannot control...sometimes you are on, sometimes you are off. The last woe (perimeter fouling) is a "mental" mistake that, when repeated as often as it has been lately, is not as easy to shrug off. It's a simple choice or keeping your hips up and left hand straight out of the water...or not. It's a matter of discipline to not reach to try and get a perimeter steal.

Still, we did a lot of good things tonight. Marquette knew what we were going to do offensively (setting picks to set up ball-side drives) and yet we still got a lot of open looks. A little less clogging of the middle, a little more accurate shooting and a little more accurate passing and we win that game by a decent margin. Our defense was stellar and when we execute offensively in addition to playing tremendous defense, we can beat anybody.

Goals: Meara - 3, Entwistle - 1, Rose - 1
Assists: Schott - 2, Entwistle - 1, Rose - 1, Watkins - 1
Steals: Entwistle - 7, Lauber - 7, Hoette - 5, Rose - 5, Meara - 3, Duncan - 1, Glauber - 1, Watkins - 1
Kickouts: Hoette - 2, Entwistle - 1
Saves: Lauber - 12

Player of the Game: Entwistle - 1 goal, 1 assist, 7 steals and not allowing Sam Miller to have a single decent scoring opportunity

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