Our Lady Of The Rosary vs. EHE Guardians

This year against Catholic Schools we are 0-2 losing one game by 30 and another by nine. Today we came out confident. Maybe just a little too confident. Will's first few shots were nowhere near the goal. OLR had a 6 foot 1 center who was a dominant force for them throughout the game. Anthony scored our first two points on a breakaway. The second quarter was back and forth but a few late scores gave us momentum into halftime. At halftime the score was 21-16 OLR. Halftime seemed like it took years but finally the third quarter began. In the third quarter I made a terrible and humerous mistake by passing it to the other team who was also wearing the color royal blue which is the color of our away jerseys also. The third quarter was just like the second with the game wobbling back and forth. In the fourth quarter the game got intense. Daniel Baxa a clutch bench player lately brought down a needed rebound and then got fouled on the other end. He made one of two free throws and put us in the lead. The score was 32-31 us in the lead and OLR with the ball, OLR fed it to their big man he went up and got fouled by Will. He made one of the two free throws and tied the game. Coach then called a timeout and worked out a play for Mo to tie the game. Mo ended up missing a three off the front rim. OLR pushed the ball up the court and gave it to their big man. He layed it up and in and put them up 34-32. We brought the ball into the frontcourt and gave the ball to Will. Will dribbled around a defender and pulled up for a short jumper. The ball bounced on the rim a few times and then dropped. With 13 seconds left we set up our press hoping for a steal and a basket to win. They broke it immediately and gave it to their SG who then heaved a shot from halfcourt with 8 seconds left and it sailed right through. Swish. The clock ran out leaving all of us and most of the fans stunned. They had won 37-34. It was one of those March Madness miracles except its January and we're middle schoolers. Our Coach said he would give the game ball (If we had one) to Daniel Baxa for stellar defense and a clutch free throw. Our next game is January 31st against St. Josephs.



POINTS SCORED

Matthew O'Brien-10

Matthew Kreh-8

Will Whiteside-9

David Rice-4

Daniel Baxa-1

Anthony Porter-2


http://youtube.com/watch?v=zBiJUAcojTE

Greenville Classical Lions @ EHE Guardians

Sick. This the word that described the status of Matthew O'Brien and our third quarter of play. Matthew O'Brien could not play today after having a high temperature and we all hope he feels better soon. The first half was back and forth, but a few three pointers by Greenville Classical put them up 18-11 at halftime. Right before halftime with 2.5 seconds left Peter received the inbounds pass and hurled it up to me. I caught the ball and with 2 hands tried to sidearm it towards the goal. I got fouled. I could not convert but 1 of the three freebies. Peter afterwards stole the inbounds pass but could not get a shot off. I had 4 baskets and 3 free throw at halftime. Right after halftime Will got us going by singlehandedly dribbling through their defense and getting an easy layup. This would be the only points that we would get in our terribly played third quarter. The tall 6 footer for Greenville Classical had a killer turnaround jumper which caused us some trouble and some precious points. In the fourth quarter Daniel Baxa received a pass on the wing, and sensing the pressure on him blew right around the defender . He did the move I would now like to call the Jump n' Dribble. Daniel jumped like he was doing a power hop and dribbled at the same time before putting it up for an amazing layup. Throughout the night David beasted the boards as if he had something against them. Rebound after Rebound came down to him. One possession late in the game Greenville Classical brought it back down and passed around, over, through and behind us for about 2 minutes. Greenville Classical won 30-21. It was a good game and maybe if we wouldve had Mo it wouldve been a different story.

Points Scored

DANIEL BAXA 2

MATTHEW KREH 13

WILL WHITESIDE 6



http://youtube.com/watch?v=CqnVZwXQbQk&feature=related

Battle of the Brothers: EHE Guardians vs. Siloam Eagles

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to play against your brothers team in basketball. Well it happened tonight. Anthony Porter and the EHE Guardians went up against his brother Cody Porter and the Siloam Eagles. 10 seconds into the game David already had us on the board after hitting a short jumper. Then we went right into the press causing 4 or 5 easy turnovers all leading to points. On our end after working the ball around it got down to David who threw it off the back board to Mo who threw it again off the backboard to David. This resulted in a Siloam rebound. Still in the first quarter Jake ran off a pick and then off another pick right to the basket for an easy layup. In the second quarter is when the fun began with us going man to man and Anthony getting to do the thing he wanted to do most in this game: Guard his brother. As time ran out in the first half Anothony nailed a last second shot sending us into halftime with a 32-6 lead. In the second half Coach Whiteside put in all five people currently sitting on the bench into the game. Due to a bleeding finger Jake was taken out and Peter put in. Peter made some great breakaway passes, one being to Daniel and the other being to me. Both were converted into layups. A few minutes later coach put Jake back in along with everyone else who had come out. Jake played excellent point guard. Late in the second half still in man defense Daniel and the Siloam Guard both grabbed a chest pass ; But Daniel had tried to catch it and take it for a breakaway layup. When he grabbed the ball and took it he dragged the Siloam player with him. The resistance of the Siloam player did not allow him to get very far resulting in a jump ball. PC and Samuel played excellent defense off the bench today causing in some easy intercepted passes. Our next game is Friday January 18th against Greenville Classical.
We ended up winning 59-14. Here are the individual stats from the game.


Name Pts.
Anthony Porter 6

Daniel Baxa 4

David Rice 4

Jake Stribling 6

Matthew Kreh 10

Matthew O'Brien 11

Peter Howard 5

Will Whiteside 13


http://youtube.com/watch?v=dd1Jkcab6YU

Spartanburg Eagles vs. EHE Guardians

After the opening prayer being interrupted twice, once by a scoreboard buzzer and once by a cell phone the game began. We got off to a hot start with Will scoring our first six points, but Spartanburg answered well coming back with five of their own. Still in the first half Spartanburg moved the ball around to a man open for a three pointer. He fired the shot and it banked it in. Our coach and most people on our team would call this a "Luck Shot" and I agree it was. Mo was at his most aggressive in this game driving to the goal almost everytime he got the ball. Most times he drew a foul. There was one point in the game where Spartanburg put the diamond press on us and we stumbled. They went on about an eight point run which in my opinon was where Spartunburg grabbed the rest of the remaining momentum and ran with it. There offense and defense was led by a very talented point guard who probably had around 25 points. We ended up losing by 8 points the final score being 46-38. We played hard and to the fiinish but couldn't pull it out. Our next game is against Siloam on January 15th.

POINTS SCORED
Peter Howard-2
Will Whiteside-8
Matthew O'Brien-14
Matthew Kreh-12
Jake Stribling-2


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WctBazFZAMc

Camperdown Academy Jaguars @ EHE Guardians

First game after Christmas we came out a little rusty but as the game went on we started hitting more shots. Late in the first half Will stole the ball and passed it downcourt to Peter who was hacked on his layup, but behind him the point guard who was very perturbed by Will's aggressiveness purposely pushing him in the back sending him flying to the floor. Unfortunately the referee did not see this. Thinking the foul was called against him Will took the free throws and hit one of two. After the game when asked what it felt like to be shoved to the floor he said, "It didnt hurt I just did a good job acting." At halftime we were up 17-10 The Diamond press really worked today, we had steal after steal after steal after steal leading to basket after basket after basket after basket. They played a laid back man defense the whole game leaving tons of driving room for Will and MO who each ended up with 13 points at the end of the game. Daniel PC, Anthony and I each had 2 points David had 4. Our backup PG Jake Stribling tremendously improved in the time he played. We ended up winning 38-18 outscoring them 21-8 in th second half. We have a game Jan. 11 against The Spartanburg Eagles who we have already lost to this year. It is another home game for us so I think it will be very close.



http://youtube.com/watch?v=28q_sqFo2DU

Ehe Guardians @ Anderson Christian Lions

They definately werent as good as they were last year but they put up a good fight. We had a few injuries on the team me having a hurt back Will being sick and David recovering from a finger injury. Despite this we were winning at halftime and at a point in the game were up by about 13. When the 2nd string went in Anderson made a nice run to try to comeback and win but it wasn't enough as MO sank two technical foul free throws to ensure a win. The technical foul came from a player stretching his hands over the inbound line after he had aleady received a warning for this. On January 4th we will go up against Camperdown Academy: A Team we shouldve beat by a lot last year but we missed a lot of layups. This is a home game and hopefully we will do better and not come out rusty since it is the first game after Christmas Break.