Worth County's girls wasted their best chance of winning their first game of the year in their last game before the break. The scary thing about it is that they now have to face a murder's row of Jefferson, Northeast Nodaway, Gallatin, and South Nodaway; four of the top teams of the area. And they still have to play Hamilton, Princeton, and Bethany along with decent teams like Albany and Stanberry.
Against Jefferson, the Tigers showed that they could break one of the best presses of the area. The problem is that they did not know what to do with the ball once they broke the press. The result was that the rash of turnovers that has plagued them the last 2 1/2 years continued after the Tigers hung tough with the Jefferson Eagles for 1 1/2 quarters. Their best offense at this point may be to break the press, dribble to the baseline, throw it out of bounds off a defender's leg, and run their inbounds plays -- that was the one thing that worked against Jefferson. The Tigers scored 8 out of their 13 points off their inbounds plays and 5 off of everything else.
The Tigers did some good things that they had not done before in the early going against the Eagles -- they broke the press, they got some good looks at the bucket, and they flew around the floor on defense so that Jefferson had to work for their points. They threw a half-court trap of their own against Jefferson that forced them to work to get the ball up the floor and even forced a few turnovers of their own. Haley Green cleaned up on a missed shot and Ashley Reynolds and Brooke Gilland each scored off inbounds plays and the Tigers were only down 8-6 with 3:18 left in the first quarter.
But then Jessica Borey picked up her third foul as another problem that has plagued the Tigers -- hacking and fouling -- reared its ugly head. Jefferson took advantage, building a 14-6 lead forcing Coach April Healy to put Borey back in. Worth County shoed some life at the beginning of the second quarter as Green scored on a long lob from Borey, Borey scored a free throw after a drive, and then Brooke Gilland scored off an inbounds play. It was a 20-11 game at that point, but then the Tigers fell apart after that and the rest of the game became a layup drill for the Jefferson squad. Jefferson outscored Worth County 45-2 for the rest of the game to win 65-13.
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