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02-03-2012, 11:21 PM
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Mercy 62
Sacred Heart 57
Sacred Heart 14 15 17 11 57
Mercy 10 16 18 18 62
Sacred Heart (14-10) -- Ruffin 18, Smith 4, Tubb 11, Matula 4, Merriweather 2, Walsh 18.
Mercy (20-4) -- Co. Roush 23, Ch. Roush 15, Hartlage 7, Richardson 5, Dircksen 11, Bewley 1
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Mercy 62
Sacred Heart 57
Sacred Heart 14 15 17 11 57
Mercy 10 16 18 18 62
Sacred Heart (14-10) -- Ruffin 18, Smith 4, Tubb 11, Matula 4, Merriweather 2, Walsh 18.
Mercy (20-4) -- Co. Roush 23, Ch. Roush 15, Hartlage 7, Richardson 5, Dircksen 11, Bewley 1
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02-04-2012, 05:35 AM
utrebounded and out of luck from 3-point range, the Mercy Academy basketball team still found a way to capture its 20th victory Friday night.
The Roush twins combined for 38 points and 15 rebounds, and Victoria Dircksen pitched in 11 points as the host Jaguars bested rival Sacred Heart, 62-57, in a battle of Top 20 teams in The Courier-Journal’s Litkenhous Ratings.
They did it despite being outrebounded 37-32 and finishing 0 of 8 from 3-point range.
“We find ways to win,” Jaguars coach Mark Evans said. “But against quality teams, most of the time we’re not going to win that battle if we don’t rebound.
“They took away our 3s,” he said. “They took away key players. We did a nice job the second half of adapting to that. And the Roushes both played extremely well."
Courtney Roush had 23 points and Christine Roush added 15 points, 11 rebounds and four steals as No. 3 Mercy improved to 20-4.
DaiJia Ruffin had 18 points, 13 rebounds and four assists to lead No. 19 Sacred Heart (14-10), and senior Erica Walsh hit 4 of 5 3-point tries on her way to a career-high 18 points.
Still, the Valkyries dropped to 1-5 this season against current Top 20 teams. Four of those losses have come by 8 points or less.
“We just have to execute a little bit better down the stretch,” coach Donna Moir said. “I thought we had a great game plan and took them out of a lot of things they want to do.”
Neither team led by more than six points in a game that featured nine ties and 10 lead changes.
The Roush twins combined for 38 points and 15 rebounds, and Victoria Dircksen pitched in 11 points as the host Jaguars bested rival Sacred Heart, 62-57, in a battle of Top 20 teams in The Courier-Journal’s Litkenhous Ratings.
They did it despite being outrebounded 37-32 and finishing 0 of 8 from 3-point range.
“We find ways to win,” Jaguars coach Mark Evans said. “But against quality teams, most of the time we’re not going to win that battle if we don’t rebound.
“They took away our 3s,” he said. “They took away key players. We did a nice job the second half of adapting to that. And the Roushes both played extremely well."
Courtney Roush had 23 points and Christine Roush added 15 points, 11 rebounds and four steals as No. 3 Mercy improved to 20-4.
DaiJia Ruffin had 18 points, 13 rebounds and four assists to lead No. 19 Sacred Heart (14-10), and senior Erica Walsh hit 4 of 5 3-point tries on her way to a career-high 18 points.
Still, the Valkyries dropped to 1-5 this season against current Top 20 teams. Four of those losses have come by 8 points or less.
“We just have to execute a little bit better down the stretch,” coach Donna Moir said. “I thought we had a great game plan and took them out of a lot of things they want to do.”
Neither team led by more than six points in a game that featured nine ties and 10 lead changes.
02-04-2012, 01:04 PM
February 4th, 2012
Jags Top Valkyries In Hard Fought Affair
Chris Jung
Co. Roush leads Mercy rivalry win with 23 points
This year's renewal of the high school girls basketball rivalry between Sacred Heart Academy and host Mercy Academy had a little more riding on the result than usual.
After not facing each other in either the Republic Bank Holiday Classic or Louisville Invitational Tournament earlier this season as they have in years past, and with the Jaguars now residing in the 6th Region away from its former 7th Region foe SHA, Friday's matchup between the two storied programs will be the only one this season unless both squads reach the KHSAA Sweet Sixteen semifinals.
And on a night that saw no lead larger than six points and a back-and-forth contest in front of a tournament-esque crowd, it was Mercy that eventually pulled ahead late and pulled out the 62-57 win over the Valkyries.
The Jaguars, which were playing its first game since a LIT semifinal loss to Marion County last week, experienced a slight bout of deja vu as junior guard Whitney Hartlage was once again taken out of the equation under the smothering defensive effort of Sacred Heart junior Kristin Matula. But on this night, the play of the senior Roush sisters proved to be enough to lead the Jags to its 20th win of the season.
Courtney Roush scored a game-high 23 points on 10-of-13 shooting, Christine Roush poured in 15 points and 11 rebounds and Mercy defeated Sacred Heart for the 4th time in the schools' past five meetings despite getting outrebounded (37-24) and failing to knock down a single three-point shot.
"We find ways to win. But most of the time, against quality teams, you're not going to win that battle if you don't rebound for us," said Mercy head coach Mark Evans. "They took away our 3's, they took away key players and we did a nice job the second half of adapting to that. And the Roush's both played extremely well, and that helped us a lot tonight."
Sacred Heart, which led at halftime and did a yeoman's job of keeping Mercy relatively under control throughout the game, trailed 59-57 and had a chance to tie the game with 11 seconds remaining on a jumper in the lane by senior Sandy Gahafer, but it fell off the rim and into the hands of the Jags' Hartlage. SHA senior Jade Tubb quickly fouled to stop the clock, but it was the shooting guard's fifth which disqualfied her from the game.
Hartlage proceeded to make 1-of-2 free throws on the other end, giving Sacred Heart one last chance to tie, but an off-balanced three-point attempt by senior Erica Walsh fell short and Mercy scored at the buzzer on a quick run-out that gave the Jaguars its final five-point margin of victory.
"That was forced, but you had to run something for her. She was 4-of-4 from the three-point line for the night," said Sacred Heart head coach Donna Moir of Walsh and the game's final play. "We got a good look to tie it up and it just didn't go.
"We've just to execute better down the stretch," Moir continued. "I thought we had a great gameplan, we took (Mercy) out of a lot of things they want to do and we had different players step up."
Walsh, who finished 4-of-5 from behind the arc and scored a team and career-high 18 points, was an offensive juggernaut on Friday for SHA and caught Evans off guard.
"They hit some real big shots. They had a couple kids come in and hit (3-pointers) who didn't (shoot) as many 3's as normal," said Evans. "We took away their shooters that we knew of, but then they had a new shooter (Erica Walsh) who hit two ore three big 3's and we weren't prepared for that, so give that kid credit."
Sacred Heart sophomore Raven Merriweather, who leads her team in points scored per game, was held to just two points and missed all 10 of her FG attempts from the floor, including going 0-of-3 from the three-point line.
"She's got to learn to be a little more patient," said Moir of Merriweather. "She does so many other things for us besides score....but she's got to stay a little more focused throughout the game. But sophomores are going to do that. I remember when I was a sophomore, so I'm going to hang in there with all these girls."
Mercy jumped out to a 6-0 lead to open the game, but seven straight points by SHA's Tubb gave the Valkyries its first lead of the game with 2:47 left in the first quarter. The Valkyries would hold the lead or keep the score tied during the remainder of the first half.
Valkyries sophomore forward DaiJia Ruffin scored on a turnaround layup to begin the second half and put SHA ahead 31-26 with 7:47 to go in the third quarter. But Mercy answered with a 6-0 run and took a 32-31 lead on a free throw by Courtney Roush at the 5:45 mark. Roush scored five of the Jags' six points during the crucial momentum swing.
The two teams proceeded to trade leads three times during the final five minutes of the third period and Sacred Heart took a 46-44 advantage on a Ruffin turnaround jumper with three seconds to go in the quarter. Ruffin finished the game with another double-double (18 points and 13 rebounds), which was accompanied by four assists.
SHA pulled ahead yet again with 5:02 remaining on another Ruffin layup that gave the Valkyries a 50-49 lead over the Jaguars, but Hartlage answered with a layup on the other end, giving Mercy a 51-50 lead. The Jags would not trail for the rest of the contest. Sacred Heart cut its deficit to two points on four different occasions during the games' final 3:26, but Mercy held on for the "W."
"They just take you out of the game with their defense. Tonight they really got out and got after us and they tried to take away ball reversal. And they did a nice job with that," said Evans. "Frankly, I think we were pretty wired up, and I'm sure they were too. But I feel like we were very scattered in the first half offensively. But the bottom line was they beat us badly on the boards in the first half....we can't run if we don't rebound and I've been harping and harpring and practicing and practicing on strong boards, and we've got to get that. If we don't get that, somebody's going to get us."
"But hats off to Sacred Heart. They kept us from running well."
Evans, who literally watched most of the second quarter and the entire second half from the seated position on the bench, was given a technical foul with about six minutes go to in the second quarter after expressing his displeasure over a non-foul he believed occured during a collision in front of the Mercy bench. The rare technical on Evans seemed to get the attention of his team.
Mercy's Hartlage finished with 7 points and 3 assists in just over 27 minutes of action. She limped to the bench favoring her right leg in the first half, but returned to the game in the third quarter. Stepping up in Hartlage's absence was junior Victoria Dircksen. After a difficult few games in last week's LIT, Dircksen returned with confidence on Friday, finished with 11 points and 5 rebounds, and was 5-of-6 from the free throw line.
Her back-to-back layups late in the game also extended Mercy's lead back to four points on two straight trips down the floor.
"A quote from (assistant coach) Keith Baisch was, 'She's a best tonight!', and she was," said Evans of Dircksen. "She is her own worst enermy. She's got a world of ability, she's a great kid, she gives you everything she has, but she's so hard on herself. And once she gets in that mindset, it's hard to build her up when she's constantly tearing herself down."
"She was tough tonight. She knocked down layups, and that's what we need from her."
Tubb, who started her high school career at Mercy before transferring to Sacred Heart after her fresman year, finished with 11 points and was 2-of-7 from the three-point line. All 11 of her scores came during the first half. SHA senior center Jazmin Smith has 4 points, 6 rebounds and a game-high 5 blocked shots, but was hampered by foul trouble in the second half.
The Valkyries (14-10) have lost three of its last five games and the schedule gets no easier during the remainder of the regular season, as SHA continues to play top-tier talent with less than three weeks until the start of the district tournament.
"We've got a brutal stretch coming up. We've got Manual Wednesday, and then (Christian Academy), and then Boone County to finish it up. I need to fire whoever put that schedule together," joked Moir, who was referring tongue and cheek to herself. "We've (just) got to step up and beat one of these teams."
Mercy (20-4) has four games left on its regular season slate. The next of those is scheduled for Monday at Scott County. The Jaguars then close out its regular season with a home game against Fern Creek and back-to-back road games at Marion County and Assumption.
For video highlights from Friday's game, visit: http://catholicsportsnet.com/louisville/..._video/265
Jags Top Valkyries In Hard Fought Affair
Chris Jung
Co. Roush leads Mercy rivalry win with 23 points
This year's renewal of the high school girls basketball rivalry between Sacred Heart Academy and host Mercy Academy had a little more riding on the result than usual.
After not facing each other in either the Republic Bank Holiday Classic or Louisville Invitational Tournament earlier this season as they have in years past, and with the Jaguars now residing in the 6th Region away from its former 7th Region foe SHA, Friday's matchup between the two storied programs will be the only one this season unless both squads reach the KHSAA Sweet Sixteen semifinals.
And on a night that saw no lead larger than six points and a back-and-forth contest in front of a tournament-esque crowd, it was Mercy that eventually pulled ahead late and pulled out the 62-57 win over the Valkyries.
The Jaguars, which were playing its first game since a LIT semifinal loss to Marion County last week, experienced a slight bout of deja vu as junior guard Whitney Hartlage was once again taken out of the equation under the smothering defensive effort of Sacred Heart junior Kristin Matula. But on this night, the play of the senior Roush sisters proved to be enough to lead the Jags to its 20th win of the season.
Courtney Roush scored a game-high 23 points on 10-of-13 shooting, Christine Roush poured in 15 points and 11 rebounds and Mercy defeated Sacred Heart for the 4th time in the schools' past five meetings despite getting outrebounded (37-24) and failing to knock down a single three-point shot.
"We find ways to win. But most of the time, against quality teams, you're not going to win that battle if you don't rebound for us," said Mercy head coach Mark Evans. "They took away our 3's, they took away key players and we did a nice job the second half of adapting to that. And the Roush's both played extremely well, and that helped us a lot tonight."
Sacred Heart, which led at halftime and did a yeoman's job of keeping Mercy relatively under control throughout the game, trailed 59-57 and had a chance to tie the game with 11 seconds remaining on a jumper in the lane by senior Sandy Gahafer, but it fell off the rim and into the hands of the Jags' Hartlage. SHA senior Jade Tubb quickly fouled to stop the clock, but it was the shooting guard's fifth which disqualfied her from the game.
Hartlage proceeded to make 1-of-2 free throws on the other end, giving Sacred Heart one last chance to tie, but an off-balanced three-point attempt by senior Erica Walsh fell short and Mercy scored at the buzzer on a quick run-out that gave the Jaguars its final five-point margin of victory.
"That was forced, but you had to run something for her. She was 4-of-4 from the three-point line for the night," said Sacred Heart head coach Donna Moir of Walsh and the game's final play. "We got a good look to tie it up and it just didn't go.
"We've just to execute better down the stretch," Moir continued. "I thought we had a great gameplan, we took (Mercy) out of a lot of things they want to do and we had different players step up."
Walsh, who finished 4-of-5 from behind the arc and scored a team and career-high 18 points, was an offensive juggernaut on Friday for SHA and caught Evans off guard.
"They hit some real big shots. They had a couple kids come in and hit (3-pointers) who didn't (shoot) as many 3's as normal," said Evans. "We took away their shooters that we knew of, but then they had a new shooter (Erica Walsh) who hit two ore three big 3's and we weren't prepared for that, so give that kid credit."
Sacred Heart sophomore Raven Merriweather, who leads her team in points scored per game, was held to just two points and missed all 10 of her FG attempts from the floor, including going 0-of-3 from the three-point line.
"She's got to learn to be a little more patient," said Moir of Merriweather. "She does so many other things for us besides score....but she's got to stay a little more focused throughout the game. But sophomores are going to do that. I remember when I was a sophomore, so I'm going to hang in there with all these girls."
Mercy jumped out to a 6-0 lead to open the game, but seven straight points by SHA's Tubb gave the Valkyries its first lead of the game with 2:47 left in the first quarter. The Valkyries would hold the lead or keep the score tied during the remainder of the first half.
Valkyries sophomore forward DaiJia Ruffin scored on a turnaround layup to begin the second half and put SHA ahead 31-26 with 7:47 to go in the third quarter. But Mercy answered with a 6-0 run and took a 32-31 lead on a free throw by Courtney Roush at the 5:45 mark. Roush scored five of the Jags' six points during the crucial momentum swing.
The two teams proceeded to trade leads three times during the final five minutes of the third period and Sacred Heart took a 46-44 advantage on a Ruffin turnaround jumper with three seconds to go in the quarter. Ruffin finished the game with another double-double (18 points and 13 rebounds), which was accompanied by four assists.
SHA pulled ahead yet again with 5:02 remaining on another Ruffin layup that gave the Valkyries a 50-49 lead over the Jaguars, but Hartlage answered with a layup on the other end, giving Mercy a 51-50 lead. The Jags would not trail for the rest of the contest. Sacred Heart cut its deficit to two points on four different occasions during the games' final 3:26, but Mercy held on for the "W."
"They just take you out of the game with their defense. Tonight they really got out and got after us and they tried to take away ball reversal. And they did a nice job with that," said Evans. "Frankly, I think we were pretty wired up, and I'm sure they were too. But I feel like we were very scattered in the first half offensively. But the bottom line was they beat us badly on the boards in the first half....we can't run if we don't rebound and I've been harping and harpring and practicing and practicing on strong boards, and we've got to get that. If we don't get that, somebody's going to get us."
"But hats off to Sacred Heart. They kept us from running well."
Evans, who literally watched most of the second quarter and the entire second half from the seated position on the bench, was given a technical foul with about six minutes go to in the second quarter after expressing his displeasure over a non-foul he believed occured during a collision in front of the Mercy bench. The rare technical on Evans seemed to get the attention of his team.
Mercy's Hartlage finished with 7 points and 3 assists in just over 27 minutes of action. She limped to the bench favoring her right leg in the first half, but returned to the game in the third quarter. Stepping up in Hartlage's absence was junior Victoria Dircksen. After a difficult few games in last week's LIT, Dircksen returned with confidence on Friday, finished with 11 points and 5 rebounds, and was 5-of-6 from the free throw line.
Her back-to-back layups late in the game also extended Mercy's lead back to four points on two straight trips down the floor.
"A quote from (assistant coach) Keith Baisch was, 'She's a best tonight!', and she was," said Evans of Dircksen. "She is her own worst enermy. She's got a world of ability, she's a great kid, she gives you everything she has, but she's so hard on herself. And once she gets in that mindset, it's hard to build her up when she's constantly tearing herself down."
"She was tough tonight. She knocked down layups, and that's what we need from her."
Tubb, who started her high school career at Mercy before transferring to Sacred Heart after her fresman year, finished with 11 points and was 2-of-7 from the three-point line. All 11 of her scores came during the first half. SHA senior center Jazmin Smith has 4 points, 6 rebounds and a game-high 5 blocked shots, but was hampered by foul trouble in the second half.
The Valkyries (14-10) have lost three of its last five games and the schedule gets no easier during the remainder of the regular season, as SHA continues to play top-tier talent with less than three weeks until the start of the district tournament.
"We've got a brutal stretch coming up. We've got Manual Wednesday, and then (Christian Academy), and then Boone County to finish it up. I need to fire whoever put that schedule together," joked Moir, who was referring tongue and cheek to herself. "We've (just) got to step up and beat one of these teams."
Mercy (20-4) has four games left on its regular season slate. The next of those is scheduled for Monday at Scott County. The Jaguars then close out its regular season with a home game against Fern Creek and back-to-back road games at Marion County and Assumption.
For video highlights from Friday's game, visit: http://catholicsportsnet.com/louisville/..._video/265
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