Women's hoops hosts Wednesday scrimmage

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http://www.lamarcardinals.com/sports/w-baskbl/spec-rel/110110aaa.html

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Went to the 1st half of the scrimmage. LU jumped out to a 14 point lead early but let St. Marys go on a 20-2 run (They were shooting lights out.) and took the lead. LU came back and led at half by 2 I think. Taylor Hays and Frenchie didn't play. Frenchie said she tweaked a hamstring but she will be ready during the season. Not sure what was wrong with Taylor.

What I took from the first 20 minutes is Jenna is an even better leader than last year. Also, she had a couple NBA deep 3s. Mo Whittaker is very talented and will take over for Darika nicely. Dani Heithoff is to soft to play backup center. We could use a better option behind Trae Smith. Ang Green was great on defense slowing and stopping their PG. Also was very surprised how tight of rotation Tidwell and Wells ran. Jenna played the entire half and the 4 subs that came in (Jas Henderson, De Anna Patterson, Danielle Heithoff,  and #12) played limited minutes. I would normally expect all players getting minutes and being able to fight for playing time but didn't see it in the first half.

All in all it was a C performance from the Cardinals. Not much intensity after coming out hot but looked great early. Several missed open layups and sloppy defense. We should be fine this year though.

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Went to the 1st half of the scrimmage. LU jumped out to a 14 point lead early but let St. Marys go on a 20-2 run (They were shooting lights out.) and took the lead. LU came back and led at half by 2 I think. Taylor Hays and Frenchie didn't play. Frenchie said she tweaked a hamstring but she will be ready during the season. Not sure what was wrong with Taylor.

What I took from the first 20 minutes is Jenna is an even better leader than last year. Also, she had a couple NBA deep 3s. Mo Whittaker is very talented and will take over for Darika nicely. Dani Heithoff is to soft to play backup center. We could use a better option behind Trae Smith. Ang Green was great on defense slowing and stopping their PG. Also was very surprised how tight of rotation Tidwell and Wells ran. Jenna played the entire half and the 4 subs that came in (Jas Henderson, De Anna Patterson, Danielle Heithoff,  and #12) played limited minutes. I would normally expect all players getting minutes and being able to fight for playing time but didn't see it in the first half.

All in all it was a C performance from the Cardinals. Not much intensity after coming out hot but looked great early. Several missed open layups and sloppy defense. We should be fine this year though.
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Agree with you assessment, but the game was a lot closer than it should have been. I stayed for the whole game. Two players that did not play due to injuries were Taylor Hayes and Myriam Igoufe. They will be in the rotation if not starting.