[olewillie]

Yes...Congrats to Mercer, they deserve the credit. Yes...Fitzgerald had a ankle injury and had to sit out the victory over George Rogers Clark tonight. I am close to her dad and he thinks and hopes she will be back next week for the district championship. We all sure hope so because she is a big part of this great season these girls have had thus far. Yes...There is way too many turnovers against Mercer and my daughter (#24 point guard, Molden) will take the responsibility for that. Being the point guard of a well-coached team like we have, she knows she is expected to get her team in the right spots and take care of the ball a lot better than she did in the second half. Unfortunately she relaxed in the second half when we got up 9 and got a good learning lesson for it. That being said, we did not play well and still led the whole game (half of it without Fitzgerald) on the road in a hostile environment until 1:47 to go in the game against a top regional contender. Our coach has some great film to use from this week and I have no doubt this one will make our Lady Warriors better down the road. Last but not least...I love the comments I hear and then see on here about our balanced team. It is hard to scout balance. I say this because some on here get caught up in who the best player is? Who gets the most awards? Who gets the most points? So on and so forth? You get caught up in having a best player and then you run every single thing for her/him and then you quit using the other players for sets and then you wonder why you're so easily scouted and put out 1st round of the region. I hope my daughter is apart of the award we always talked about when she moved up to play varsity ball and be the first Southwestern girl's "12th Region Champions". All the other awards will come if your truly trying to achieve that team award. With that being said, there is 4 or 5 teams that could win the 12th region this year and I think Mercer and Southwestern is 2 of them. It should be a great tournament in a couple of weeks.

You wont beat a good team with weak guards......