BURTON, Ohio — Winning all of your games is great, but it doesn't always prepare a team for what's to come. In winning their first seven games of the season, Berkshire's girls were blowing everybody off the court. Friday it appeared to be more of the same when the Badgers went on a 15-2 run to open up a...
BURTON, Ohio — Winning all of your games is great, but it doesn't always prepare a team for what's to come.
In winning their first seven games of the season, Berkshire's girls were blowing everybody off the court. Friday it appeared to be more of the same when the Badgers went on a 15-2 run to open up a 39-25 lead on visiting Kirtland late in the third quarter.
But things got ugly for the hosts in the fourth period before hitting two free throws in the final 44 seconds to take a 41-36 victory in a matchup of unbeaten teams. The Badgers are 8-0, 4-0 in the Chagrin Valley Conference, while Kirtland falls to 8-1 and 3-1.
"We haven't played a close game all year," Berkshire coach Dennis Lory said. "They picked it up a notch in the fourth quarter like they always do and we didn't handle it very well."
In fact, the Badgers went without a field goal in the final period and were dangerously close to putting a goose egg on the scoreboard for the final eight minutes. The two late free throws were their only points of the quarter.
"In my opinion it was a little bit of panic," said 6-1 junior Harley Adler, who led all players with 18 points and also blocked six shots and pulled down a team-high four rebounds.
Indeed, Berkshire committed eight turnovers in the fourth quarter, allowing Kirtland to go on an 11-0 run to cut the margin to 39-36 with 2:17 left in the game. However, the Hornets didn't score another point.
"It was an exciting game," said Kirtland coach Bob Bell. "It was a hard-played game. We made a lot of mistakes. That was the difference. It boils down to fundamentals. The turnovers against their full court pressure was the difference.
Kirtland turned the ball over 22 times, 13 in the second half. The Hornets stayed in the game despite making only six of 26 two-point field goal attempts (23 percent). They were led by junior guard Kaitlyn Kish, who hit 5 of 8 3-pointers for a team-high 15 points, and Kelsey Polak with eight points.
"I thought our defense was outstanding," Lory said. "We still had enough to win but we didn't play our best down the stretch."
Adler, who also played outstanding defense to hold Kirtland's Rachel Borowske to just five points -- all in the first period, was backed by Alyssa Ronyak with 10 points and Meghann Wright with eight points.
Source: http://highschoolsports.cleveland.com/news/article/8513987933005940959
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