Saturday, December 29, 2012
Angels take second place at Viz for the third straight year, after losing to the Red Knights, who claimed their fifth straight Viz tourney title.
TOWN AND COUNTRY -- An intense, back-and-forth battle for the coveted championship trophy of the Visitation Academy Holiday Girls Basketball Tournament turned inside out against St. Joseph’s Academy on Friday. The Angels were ahead 9-8 at the end of the first quarter, and even enjoyed a brief 11-10 lead early in the second quarter. But from that point on, the No. 1-ranked team in all of St. Louis area girls basketball -- Incarnate Word Academy -- controlled every aspect of the game, and was able to ease its way to a 49-34 win over St. Joe. Incarnate, which is now 10-0 and has been ranked as high as No. 10 in the nation by ESPN and other high school girls basketball polls, took control by outscoring the Angels 14-3 in the second quarter. St…
Friday, December 28, 2012
Angels moved to 7-0 on the year, thanks to a brilliant showing of defense that held Blue Springs to just two field goal makes over the final two and a half quarters.
TOWN AND COUNTRY -- The St. Joseph's Academy girls basketball team delivered what may have been the single best half of defensive basketball of the season on Thursday, when the Angels matched up with fellow state power Blue Springs (MO), in a semifinal game at the Visitation Academy Holiday Tournament. The Angels, who trailed by as many as 11 points early in the second quarter, held Blue Springs to just two field goals over the final two and a half quarters -- allowing just one point in the entire third quarter -- to pull away from the Wildcats for a 60-38 victory. "Well I would say that's two field goals and one point too many," St. Joe head coach Julie Matheny joked following the game. "But Blue Springs was kind of red hot in the first …
Thursday, December 27, 2012
Angels were out of sync on offense the entire game, but managed to do just enough right at the end to pull out nail-biting victory over hard-charging Stateswomen.
TOWN AND COUNTRY -- The St. Joseph’s Academy girls basketball team managed to pull out a nail-biter of a victory Wednesday night in the quarterfinal round of the Visitation Tournament, when senior Sydney Stipanovich dropped in a layup with 21 seconds left to give the Angels a 35-33 win over the upset-minded club from Webster Groves High. The Stateswomen, who came into the game with a 6-2 record and the No. 10 ranking amongst Large School girls teams in the city, led almost the entire game and came less than a minute away from pulling off what would have been the biggest upset of the season so far. “You have to give Webster Groves credit, they played a great game,” St. Joe head coach Julie Matheny said. “They really outplayed us. They …
