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Under 16 Girls Squad
Follow the fortunes of the girls throughout the season by reading match reports below. Pictured is Head Coach Sarah Bennett.
MATCH REPORTS FOR 2009 -10 SEASON
MATCH REPORT 3/02/10
The
The Eagles stepped out on the court and the performance they put in made Coach Bennett think that the Eagles thought that they would win this match without even trying and ended up 10 – 2 down. A time out from the coach and the girls went out with more focus but were unable to change the score in their favour before the end of the first half 29 – 20 in
In the second half the Eagles put on a full court press to try to cut down the margin and claim the victory. And it worked with the Eagles being able to convert their defence to baskets at the other end as at the end of the third quarter the Eagles were now in the lead 41 – 35. In the fourth the Eagles kept the lead and came out victorious with a final score of 59 – 43.
Top Scorers for the Eagles were Amy Sutton with 15 points, Jenna Shaw 11 points and Rena Armstrong 8 points.
Top Scorers for the Gateshead were R Farrey with 14 points, A Todd with 11 points and L Watson and R Spragg both with 4 points. MATCH REPORT 30/01/10
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MATCH REPORT 24/01/10 On 24th January the Eagles were travelling to Barrow for their next league fixture at the Hoops Basketball Centre. This is the second time the Eagles will face this team this season and in their first meet Barrow took the victory 35 – 68.
Barrow opened the scoring as the Eagles found it difficult to convert. The Barrow team ran at the Eagles and the girls found it difficult to prevent the fast break and stop the Barrow team from converting the easy baskets. At the end of the first quarter the Barrow team had outscored the Eagles 30 – 6. The
After a stern talking to by Coach Sarah Bennett the Eagles came out in the second half with a more positive look and started the scoring with Amy Sutton converting two from the line and Beth Gordon again hitting a little outside jumper. The Eagles performance improved but not enough and the barrow team took the third quarter 36 – 16. The Eagles found themselves with a deep hole to try and dig themselves out of and not able to convert in the fourth the Eagles lost with a big margin of 116 – 33 in favour of Barrow.
Top Scorers for the Eagles were Amy Sutton with 14 points,
Top Scorers for the Barrow were N Wood and R Brown both with 31 points and A Knowles with 23 points. MATCH REPORT 13/12/09
Match report to follow MATCH REPORT 29/11/10
Match report to follow MATCH REPORT 28/11/09 The next team to visit the Eagles was Everton Tigers. The Eagles were hoping to secure another win after their two losses to Barrow and
The first quarter was a close one going back and forth with some good basketball from both teams. And at the first quarter final buzzer the score was 15 a piece. The second quarter the Eagles came out strong with Jenna Shaw going to basket and being fouled making the basket but unfortunately she could not convert the free throw for a three point play. With Amy Sutton making 5 points and Jenna making another move inside the Eagles found themselves 21 – 15 up. The rest of the second quarter was much of the same and the Eagles were up at half time 33 – 25.
In the second half the
Top scorers for the Eagles were Amy Sutton with 24 points, Jenna Shaw 16 points and Rachael Cryer 9 points.
Top scorers for Everton were J. Crab with 20, S. Doyle 9 points and C Lee 4 points. MATCH REPORT 1/11/09
U16 girls found themselves hosting Manchester Mystic for their next league fixture. Coach Sarah Bennett knew from the start that this would be a tough match as the
The tip began the game with Jenna Shaw being fouled on shooting not being able to convert the free throws Manchester were first to open the scoring and Eagles struggled to stop them and found themselves down 16 – 0 until Jenny Spires found the basket putting the first points on the board.
The second quarter the eagles did not find their game and constantly let Manchester run over them and take control on both ends of the court and the half time score was 66 – 16.
In the second half the Eagles played better but could not find the basket to convert their hard work. The
Top scorers for the Eagles were Jenny Spires with 8 points, Rena Armstrong 5 points and Amy Sutton 4 points.
Top scorers for Manchester were M. Campbell with 22 points, L. McDerment 19 and L. Rogan 17 points. MATCH REPORT 25/10/09 U16 girls had their third match of the season on Oct 25th when they played host to Barrow Thorns. The visitors came out strong from the tip and the Eagles found themselves 10 – 0 down. A time out by coach Sarah Bennett was taken to wake the girls up which seemed to gee them up but wasn’t enough as the first quarter ended with the Eagles down 26 – 5.
The second quarter the eagles made a push and managed to put pressure on the Barrow team winning the quarter 20 – 13. This helped with reducing the lead that Barrow had but wasn’t enough to give the Eagles the lead as at half time the score was 25 – 39 to Barrow.
In the second half the Eagles started off very similar to how they had entered the game and allowed Barrow to go on numerous runs with no answer at the other end from the Eagles. The Eagles only scored 4 pints with Bethany Gordon and Rachael Cryer scoring two points each respectively. Going into the fourth the
Top scorers for the Eagles were Rachael Cryer 11 points, Amy Sutton 8 points, Rena Armstrong 8 points and Jenny Spires 6 points.
Top scorers for Barrow Thorns were R.Brown 27 points, P. Carr 12 points and N. Wood 12 points. MATCH REPORT 18/10/09 The under 16 girls’ made the long journey to
The second quarter the Eagles didn’t let up and found themselves outscoring the opposition by ten points taking the score at half time to 37 – 20 with the Eagles leading. The second half got under way and both teams had runs throughout with the other team failing to convert but the Eagle’s never let up and when the final whistle blew they found themselves with another win 75 – 48.
Top Scorers were Rachel Waters, 18, Jenna Shaw 17, Jenny Spires 15 and Rachael Cryer 13, Bethany Gordon 6, Rena Armstrong 2 and Bethany Honour.
MATCH REPORT 5/10/2009
One of the newest teams on the Eagles roster the under 16 girls kicked off their season at home against Bury Blue Devils. The Eagles opened the scoring with Jenny Spires making a break away lay up from the tip by Jenna Shaw. The Eagles dominated the quarter and found themselves 17 - 8 up at the end. Bury came out strong in the second with a 6 - 0 run at which point the Coaching Staff called a time out and spoke to the girls about the defensive end and boxing out. The Eagle's came out of the time out well played good defence and went on a 10 - 0 run with the rest of the qaurter being even in the scoring and both teams going into half time with the Eagles in lead 31 - 19.
In the second quarter boxing out on the defensive end hurt the Eagles with the Bury team being a taller team and with the Eagle's Jenna Shaw on 4 fouls she had to sit for the third quarter. The Bury team won the 3rd 10 - 16 which reduced the lead that the Eagle's had to 41 - 35.
The fourth quarter was a very even match up with both teams exchanging baskets at both ends and the Eagles narrowly beat Bury by 2 points in the final quarter with the final score 57 to the Eagles and 49 to Bury.
Top Scorers for the Eagles: Jenny Spires 16, Amy Sutton 15, Rachael Cryer 10, Bethany Gordon 6, Rachel Waters 6, Jenna Shaw 4, Rena Armstrong, Bethany Honour.
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