NORTH TARTAN VS FOX VALLEY

North Tartan is taking on Fox Valley. Both teams won their first game earlier in the morning. As this game gets underway both teams are looking to push the ball up the court and run with it. Fox Valley has started this game playing in a half court man to man defense. They are not switching screens here in this first half. Both teams are going strong at each other early in this game.

North Tartans Kim Campbell is playing hard she has made some strong aggressive moves to the basket here in this game. Shara Schutta has hit a couple of nice three point baskets here in this game so far. She has a nice shooting touch.

Fox Valley’s Whitney Eisenreich is playing well here in this game. She is not afraid to get on the ground and mix it up a little bit. She has dived on the ground for loose balls. On the offensive end of the court she has hit some nice shots.

Both teams are going hard at each other here in this game so far. Both teams have a chance at winning this game today. Fox Valley is trying to trap the guards as they bring the ball up the court. Fox Valley has really put it on North Tartan toward the end of the first half. But at the half the score is North Tartan 32 and Fox Valley 26.

Both teams are fighting hard here to start out the second half. North Tartan has started out pressing here in the second half. Fox Valley is still trying to push the ball up the court here mid way through the second half.

Fox Valley has started to press here in this game. They are using a man to man press and trying to force the North Tartan guards to the middle of the court. North Tartan has played well here in this game. They are taking gambles on the defensive end. They are playing hard and aggressive. Both of these teams are looking to push it up the court.

Morgan Steinert is playing well here for this Fox Valley team. She has made some nice screens to get people open on the offensive end of the court. There is still a lot of time here left in this game. With 7:00 left to go in the game the score is North Tartan 39 and Fox Valley 37.

Both teams are playing half court defense here in the second half of this game. This game will come down to the end. It will just be a matter of who can make shots down the stretch.

This was a hard fought game. In the end North Tartan came away with the 57-44 victory in this game.

WELCOME TO THE NORTH TARTAN MELTDOWN PRESENTED BY DICKS SPORTING GOODS

In the first game of this tournament it is the 13u division it is North Tartan taking on The Minnesota Stars.

As this game gets underway both teams are pushing the ball up the court. North Tartan is looking to push the ball when they are on offense. They are doing a lot of passing and cutting when they are on the offensive end.

North Tartan’s Kim Campbell has made some good drives to the basket here so far in this game. She has used a couple of good shot fakes here so far in this game. Both teams are playing well here in this first half.

The Minnesota Stars are pushing the ball up the court. They are able to get the ball up the court pretty easy here in this game. There is not much full court pressure that is being played by the North Tartan team.

Both teams are getting after it here in this game. They are both playing aggressively. There have been battles over loose balls that have end up in jump balls. The Minnesota Stars have started to play a couple of series of zone defense. They have switched it up between 2-3 and 3-2 defensively.

Angela Freicks has played well here in this game. She has made some solid passes here in this game. She plays very under control.

North Tartan is ahead at half time by the score of 23-18.

As this second half gets underway here both teams are playing strong. The Minnesota Stars have come out playing strong man to man coverage here. They are not going to give up. They are playing strong here early in the second half.

Alexandra Freeman has also played well here in this game. She has flown all over the court today. She really plays aggressively out there for her team. She attends Duluth East High school in Duluth Minnesota.

North Tartan has run a series of plays in this game. They do like to run a patterned offense. The Minnesota Stars also are running good offense here in this game. They tend to run a more of a motion series.

North Tartan is up by the score of 27-24 with 9:00 left to go in the second half.

Both teams are playing aggressively here in the second half. They are really scrapping it out. The Minnesota Stars are fighting back here in his game. The Minnesota Stars are not going to back down here in this game.

North Tartan is playing aggressively here in this game. Both teams are not going to give up they both want to win this game. Shannon Christenson who is from Fairmount High school is playing well here in this game. She has made some incredible plays here in this game.

North Tartan has made some turn over’s late here in this game. We will have to see how costly the turn over’s will be as this game nears the end. This game has been tight and closes here in the second half but in the end North Tartan came up winning the game by the final of 36-33.

NORTH TARTAN VS MINNESOTA STARS

16U PLAY

North Tartan is playing Minnesota Stars; both teams are getting the ball up the court to start off the game. In the first half there was very little intensity to start off the game. Both teams looked sluggish out of the gate. As the game goes on the players from both teams are getting into it. They have waked up and they are playing better basketball. This game is close both teams are trading baskets to start off the game. Towards the end of the first half North Tartan was able to go on a little run. They are both playing good half court and man to man defense. At half time the score is North Tartan 35 and Minnesota Stars 24.

Both teams are playing very well to start off the second half. Both teams are moving the ball and taking time and looking for their shots. The Minnesota Stars came out and are making a run at North Tartan. With 13:38 Left the score is North Tartan 35 and Minnesota Stars 30. So we will have to see what happens in the second half. The Minnesota Stars have gone into a scoring drought in the second half. They were unable to score the ball for a 5 minute period in the second half. North Tartan was able to take away the passing lanes and the Minnesota Stars are not able to score the ball against the pressure that North Tartan is putting on them. North Tartan was hitting there shots and they were just better then the Minnesota Stars this game. You have to give credit to the Minnesota Stars because they fought till the end of the game. They didn’t get down on themselves and they played hard the whole game.

North Tartan ran way with this game in the second half. They made shots and they were able to just play better then the Minnesota Starts in the second half.

The final of the game was North Tartan 61 and Minnesota Stars 41.