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After suffering their first loss of the season on Tuesday, the Roosevelt girls’ basketball team bounced back with a 40-28 victory over Melvindale on Friday night.
“We made a point of saying that true character shows after a loss,” Wyandotte Coach Ron Adkins said. “How you bounce back after a loss.”
The Cardinals were riding on a high after their first win of the season Tuesday night, and after a slow start, gave the Bears some competition in the remaining three quarters.
“I think our win over Kennedy Tuesday helped us with our confidence today,” Melvindale Coach Tom Schick said.
Both teams got off to an unusually slow start, but the Bears managed an 8-1 lead after the first quarter.
They extended their lead to 16-10 after a first half filled with turnovers from both sides.
“Our turnovers in the first half were just silly,” Schick said. “That’s something I can live with because I’m trying to teach them to be aggressive and the turnovers they were making were girls trying to make a move happen instead of being passive and letting the pressure come to them.
“They were trying to embrace the pressure and get around them. That’s a learning process, but as a coach, I love to see that at least they’re trying that.”
The Cardinals outscored the Bears in the middle quarters, but a 17-9 run for Roosevelt in the fourth quarter, and an especially strong last four minutes, secured the once close game.
Melvindale pulled within a few points, but some changes on the Bears’ rotation in the last few minutes turned the game around.
“We were subbing people in and they weren’t rotating on defense,” Adkins said. “I think we got it down in the last four minutes of the game. We played solid defense.”
The Bears were helped out in the fourth quarter with solid efforts from Rachel Carley and Amelia Czarnota.
Czarnota finished the night with 11 points, nine of them in the fourth quarter. In the final quarter, she went five-for-six in free throws and also finished with three rebounds.
Adkins described her as one of the better players in the league.
Carley finished the night with 10 points and five rebounds and seemed to be exactly where she was needed as the clock ran down.
“There’s no one that’s going to match her grittiness on the floor,” Adkins said. “She hustles and she’s five foot tall and we’ve got her playing a forward. That’s a credit to her character.
“She played a huge role for us tonight.”
Hailee Trombley continued her strong season Friday, leading the Bears with 15 points and six rebounds.
Auriel Harris continued her strong season, dominating the Cardinal offense and scoring 21 of their 28 points. She also had six rebounds.
“I think Harris is definitely one of the best players in our league,” Adkins said. “We put a chaser on her and she still scored. We doubled her and she still found a way to score 21 out of 28.
“She’s a real competitive girl.”
Despite the loss, Schick was pleased with his teams’ effort and believes they are heading in the right direction.
“They did everything I wanted them to do,” he said. “If we made our easy buckets underneath, I really think we could have came away with a nice upset victory.”
Schick was pleased with his teams’ defensive efforts and thought they did a good job of irritating the Bears by being in their face.
“That’s what I’m trying to teach at Melvindale,” Schick said. “I want a specific type of basketball played. Some people would call it overaggressive; I just call it aggressive.
“That’s the only way that you can get things to happen with your kids and gain confidence in them is just keep on constantly pushing them and keep them focused on the game.”
Melvindale will travel to Woodhaven Tuesday night to take on the only team left undefeated in the Downriver League. Schick knows it will be a big chore, but says it does not matter who his team plays as long as they’re playing his brand of basketball.
“We’ve come a long way since our first game and it’s taken a bit longer than I would have hoped for them to get used to my style, but I think they’re getting used to it and I think they’re starting to embrace it a little bit because they definitely worked hard tonight.”
Roosevelt will travel next door to take on longtime rival, Anderson.
Always an anticipated game, the Titans also suffered their first league loss at the hands of Woodhaven, the same night the Bears lost to Allen Park.
Adkins expects it to be a good rivalry game.
“If you can’t get up for Southgate, then you’ve got something wrong with you,” Adkins said he told his team.
“We just gotta come out and the nerves and the jitters gotta be gone. We’ve gotta play Wyandotte basketball.”
GIRLS' BASKETBALL: Bears back to winning ways with victory over Melvindale(PHOTO AND VIDEO)
“We made a point of saying that true character shows after a loss,” Wyandotte Coach Ron Adkins said. “How you bounce back after a loss.”
The Cardinals were riding on a high after their first win of the season Tuesday night, and after a slow start, gave the Bears some competition in the remaining three quarters.
“I think our win over Kennedy Tuesday helped us with our confidence today,” Melvindale Coach Tom Schick said.
Both teams got off to an unusually slow start, but the Bears managed an 8-1 lead after the first quarter.
They extended their lead to 16-10 after a first half filled with turnovers from both sides.
“Our turnovers in the first half were just silly,” Schick said. “That’s something I can live with because I’m trying to teach them to be aggressive and the turnovers they were making were girls trying to make a move happen instead of being passive and letting the pressure come to them.
“They were trying to embrace the pressure and get around them. That’s a learning process, but as a coach, I love to see that at least they’re trying that.”
The Cardinals outscored the Bears in the middle quarters, but a 17-9 run for Roosevelt in the fourth quarter, and an especially strong last four minutes, secured the once close game.
Melvindale pulled within a few points, but some changes on the Bears’ rotation in the last few minutes turned the game around.
“We were subbing people in and they weren’t rotating on defense,” Adkins said. “I think we got it down in the last four minutes of the game. We played solid defense.”
The Bears were helped out in the fourth quarter with solid efforts from Rachel Carley and Amelia Czarnota.
Czarnota finished the night with 11 points, nine of them in the fourth quarter. In the final quarter, she went five-for-six in free throws and also finished with three rebounds.
Adkins described her as one of the better players in the league.
Carley finished the night with 10 points and five rebounds and seemed to be exactly where she was needed as the clock ran down.
“There’s no one that’s going to match her grittiness on the floor,” Adkins said. “She hustles and she’s five foot tall and we’ve got her playing a forward. That’s a credit to her character.
“She played a huge role for us tonight.”
Hailee Trombley continued her strong season Friday, leading the Bears with 15 points and six rebounds.
Auriel Harris continued her strong season, dominating the Cardinal offense and scoring 21 of their 28 points. She also had six rebounds.
“I think Harris is definitely one of the best players in our league,” Adkins said. “We put a chaser on her and she still scored. We doubled her and she still found a way to score 21 out of 28.
“She’s a real competitive girl.”
Despite the loss, Schick was pleased with his teams’ effort and believes they are heading in the right direction.
“They did everything I wanted them to do,” he said. “If we made our easy buckets underneath, I really think we could have came away with a nice upset victory.”
Schick was pleased with his teams’ defensive efforts and thought they did a good job of irritating the Bears by being in their face.
“That’s what I’m trying to teach at Melvindale,” Schick said. “I want a specific type of basketball played. Some people would call it overaggressive; I just call it aggressive.
“That’s the only way that you can get things to happen with your kids and gain confidence in them is just keep on constantly pushing them and keep them focused on the game.”
Melvindale will travel to Woodhaven Tuesday night to take on the only team left undefeated in the Downriver League. Schick knows it will be a big chore, but says it does not matter who his team plays as long as they’re playing his brand of basketball.
“We’ve come a long way since our first game and it’s taken a bit longer than I would have hoped for them to get used to my style, but I think they’re getting used to it and I think they’re starting to embrace it a little bit because they definitely worked hard tonight.”
Roosevelt will travel next door to take on longtime rival, Anderson.
Always an anticipated game, the Titans also suffered their first league loss at the hands of Woodhaven, the same night the Bears lost to Allen Park.
Adkins expects it to be a good rivalry game.
“If you can’t get up for Southgate, then you’ve got something wrong with you,” Adkins said he told his team.
“We just gotta come out and the nerves and the jitters gotta be gone. We’ve gotta play Wyandotte basketball.”
Last Updated: 1/12/2013 1:39:13 PM EST