The Clarkson/Leigh Boys are winless so far, losing 66-26 at Humphrey/Lindsay Holy Family Friday night, 70-57 at home to Madison on Saturday, 80-37 at Oakland-Craig Tuesday night, and 50-47 at home to Winside Thursday night.
Humphrey/Lindsay Holy Family took control early and never looked back. The Bulldogs led 20-3 at the end of one and outscored the Patriots 20-9 in the second quarter to lead 40-12 at halftime.
Humphrey/Lindsay Holy Family won the third quarter 19-7 to go up 59-19 at the end of three.
Both teams scored 7 points in the fourth quarter.
Blake Paprocki paced Clarkson/Leigh with 7 points.
Head Coach Jay Knaak.
"I just looked and we had 30 turnovers in the game, and that was with them playing a half court zone the whole second half. And we still turned the ball over."
Knaak says his team is inexperienced and it showed.
"Not only did we play not very good defense, we didn't play very good offense. And we shot the ball at about 20 percent. And it's tough to win games when you shoot the ball at 20 percent and have 30 turnovers in a game. It just makes life tough."
The Dragons led the Patriots 21-12 at the end of one. Madison outscored Clarkson/Leigh 26-17 in the second quarter to go up 47-29 at halftime.
The Dragons won the third quarter 18-13 to make it a 65-42 game at the end of three.
The Patriots tripled up Madison 15-5 in the fourth quarter.
Anthony Bruhn had 24 points and 8 rebounds while Paprocki and Garrett Schroeder notched 11 points apiece.
The Knights led the Patriots 22-6 at the end of one. Oakland-Craig outscored Clarkson/Leigh 18-11 in the second quarter to lead 40-17 at halftime.
The Knights doubled up the Patriots 18-9 in the third quarter to go up 58-26 at the end of three.
Oakland-Craig doubled up Clarkson/Leigh 22-11 in the fourth quarter.
Bruhn registered a double-double of 28 points and 11 rebounds.
The Wildcats and Patriots were tied at 13 at the end of one. Winside won the second quarter 11-8 to take a 24-21 lead into the locker room.
Clarkson/Leigh outscored the Wildcats 17-9 in the third quarter to go up 38-33 at the end of three.
Winside notched 17 points in the fourth quarter compared to 9 for the Patriots.
Clarkson/Leigh really let one get away against the Wildcats. That loss has to really sting for the Patriots.
Clarkson/Leigh (0-4) takes on BRLD (3-0) at home Friday night.
The Wolverines beat Emerson-Hubbard 64-17 at home Tuesday night.
BRLD is tough, and is led by Kenyan Lovejoy, Trent Gatewood, Montana Riecken, and others.
The Wolverines have been really good offensively and great defensively.
The Patriots, on the other hand, have really struggled on both offense and defense.
Clarkson/Leigh has played well at times, but not consistent enough to pick themselves up a win yet.
The Patriots have to work on closing out teams when they have the opportunity.
I felt Clarkson/Leigh really let one get away against Winside, and the Patriots have to do a better job of finishing next time they're in that situation, whether it's Friday or another game.
Clarkson/Leigh is in a really tough situation right now. Losing to the Wildcats had to be a big emotional letdown.
But you know what? The Patriots have to forget about it quickly and be ready to play Friday night because BRLD will come ready to play, there's no doubt about it.
Clarkson/Leigh has to pick themselves and each other up, and be mentally tough.
The Patriots need to make progress against the Wolverines, regardless of if they win or lose.
I feel that progress was made against Winside so as tough as the loss is at least Clarkson/Leigh was competitive.
The Patriots have to be competitive again on Friday, and be ready to play hard for four quarters against BRLD.
The one thing Clarkson/Leigh can control is their effort, and the Patriots have to play with tremendous effort Friday night.
The Clarkson/Leigh Girls have started the season 2-2, losing 48-34 at Humphrey/Lindsay Holy Family Friday night, beating Madison 53-29 at home on Saturday, losing 47-43 at Oakland-Craig Tuesday night, and winning 59-28 at home over Winside Thursday night.
Humphrey/Lindsay Holy Family led 15-5 after one. The Patriots won the second quarter 13-11 to make it a 26-18 game at halftime.
Both teams scored 7 points in the third quarter, and the score after three was 33-25 in favor of the Bulldogs.
Humphrey/Lindsay Holy Family outscored Clarkson/Leigh 15-9 in the fourth quarter to make up the final score.
Hannah Kasik had a game-high 14 points for the Patriots.
Head Coach Matt Murren says the slow start was too difficult to overcome.
"We came out, we got off to a little slow start there offensively. We were very tentative with shooting the basketball. We had plenty of looks, but we didn't want to shoot the ball early, and kind of caused us into some early turnovers. Kind of dug ourselves a hole. But I couldn't be more proud of the team. We got down there 26-7, and we battled back. From that point the ending score 27-22 there from that point on. So very proud of the girls the way they battled. And tell you what I'm very optimistic following that.
Murren says foul trouble was an issue.
"The one thing we've got to work on, and we've known this going in, is we've got to stay out of foul trouble. It was tough there we got into that third quarter, and we put them in the bonus two minutes and about five seconds into it."
Clarkson/Leigh led the Dragons 9-7 at the end of one. The Patriots won the second quarter 17-12 to take a 26-19 lead at halftime.
Clarkson/Leigh outscored Madison 17-5 in the second quarter to make it a 43-24 lead at the end of three.
The Patriots doubled up the Dragons 10-5 in the fourth quarter.
Ashlynn Novotony registered 15 points for Clarkson/Leigh. Shelby Paprocki added 10 points and 8 rebounds while Kasik and Kaegan Held notched 9 and 7 points, respectively. Halee Steffensmeier recorded 7 rebounds.
The Knights held a 6-5 lead over the Patriots at the end of one. Both teams scored 10 points in the second quarter, and the halftime score was 16-15 in favor of Oakland-Craig.
Clarkson/Leigh won the third quarter 15-10 to go up 30-26 after three.
The Knights outscored the Patriots 21-13 in the fourth quarter.
Kasik had a team-high 14 points while Paprocki and Steffensmeier registered 8 apiece. Held totaled 7.
Clarkson/Leigh led the Wildcats 21-4 at the end of one. The Patriots outscored Winside 16-7 in the second quarter to make it a 37-11 at halftime.
Clarkson/Leigh won the third quarter 8-5 to go up 45-18 at the end of three.
Paprocki recorded 16 points while Steffensmeier notched 13. Kasik added 9 while Paige Moore posted 8.
I think the Patriots are coming along nicely. Clarkson/Leigh is definitely an improved team from last year.
The Patriots (2-2) host BRLD (3-0) Friday night.
The Wolverines knocked off Emerson-Hubbard 80-27 at home Tuesday night.
BRLD has been very good this year, and I feel this Clarkson/Leigh has a big opportunity in front of them.
When you talk about building your program and changing the culture and things like that, these are the types of games you need to perform well in.
The Patriots are going to have to be very good on both ends of the court, even better than they were against Winside Thursday night.
I think Clarkson/Leigh has a chance to make things respectable against the Wolverines.
I feel like the Patriots are the toughest team BRLD will have faced so far this season.
It will be interesting to see how much gas Clarkson/Leigh has in the tank.
The Patriots have played two games so far this week so Clarkson/Leigh is going to have to dig deep and find some will within to play a good game Friday night.
The Patriots can rest after this game with the Wolverines so Clarkson/Leigh needs to be ready to go for four quarters.
The Patriots have to try and slow down Kelly Wakeley, Lexie Bacon, Tess Nottleman, Paige Peters, Vicki Gatzemeyer, Tiahna, Bonneau, and others.
BRLD has a lot of different weapons that can hurt you so it's important for Clarkson/Leigh to try and defend every one of these girls tightly.
Contesting shots and boxing out will be of the utmost important Friday night.
I really think the Patriots are going to need to keep up with the Wolverines scoring wise to have a chance.
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