Tuesday, February 17, 2009

MINNEAPOLIS SOUTH’S TAYLER HILL BREAKS STATE SCORING RECORD




Minneapolis Roosevelt took on Minneapolis South on South’s home court. There is a lot of interest in this game because of Minneapolis South Guard Tayler Hill is within reach of breaking the all time scoring record for girl’s basketball. She is chasing Katie Ohm of the Minnesota Gophers. Katie Ohm scored 3694 points in her high school career. Coming into the game Taylor Hill has 3669 points.

Both of these teams came out fired up ready to play. South started out strong and they really gave Roosevelt fits to start the game. South has looked much quicker then Roosevelt in the early goings. South has looked to push the ball in the early goings of the first half. South has looked to Tayler Hill early and often in the opening half. She is not afraid to shoot the ball. Tayler is not afraid to pass up a shot if she thinks that her teammate has a better shot.

Roosevelt came to play in the first half. They didn’t back down to this South team. They played strong match up zone defense for a while in the first half. They wanted to try to double team Tayler Hill as much as they could.
Both of these teams also look to push the ball up the court in the open court as much as they could.

South was able to make shots in the first half. Roosevelt did play strong and aggressively in the first half. They put up a battle in the first half.

Roosevelt looked to push the ball up the court. They wanted to get South out of there rhythm. They made a little run at South toward the end of the second half.

Both teams went up and down in the first half. It was a very close first half with both teams going after it. Tayler Hill did miss some shots in the first half but at the half she had 14 points.

Roosevelt had a 1 point lead at half time by the score of 31-30.

Both teams continued to push the ball in the second half. Roosevelt came out and played in a zone defense to open up the second half.

Hill continued to push the ball up in the fast break. She continued to push the ball up the court and then get the ball back and score. She really put on a show for the crowd tonight. With 9:27 left to go in regulation Tayler Hill broke the state scoring record. After Tayler Hill Broke the scoring record on a layup she was surrounded by her teammates at center court for a picture and Mark Sanders presented Tayler Hill with a banner and the game ball.


South was able to come away with the 71-58 victory this evening. You have to give credit to both of these teams they played a very hard fought game this evening. Tayler Hill finished with a total of 32 points. So after tonight’s game Tayler Hill has a total of 3701 total points. Tayler Hill was just truly amazing.

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