Windham
girls notch second straight win
Basketball - WHS Girls Varsity
January 15,
2010
Steph Frost
(foul line) and Gina Cirillo defending
againts Bonny Eagle on Friday night.
Windham ME:
Windham (4-7) dominated the second half
turning a 20-19 halftime lead into a
convincing 52-37 victory over Bonny Eagle
(3-9).
Bonny Eagle's
Alicia Hoyt got to the scoring going early
when she connected on a three-point play to
put the Scots up 3-0. Sophomore guard Steph
Frost put Windham on the board with a free
throw and Amber Allen followed up with two
free throws of her own. Kelsey McGowan,
Frost and Olivia Hurd all added baskets to
put Windham up 9-7 at the end of the first
quarter.
#4 Meghan
Gribbin checks assignments as the Bonny
eagle players prepares to take a foul shot.
McGowan
dominated the second quarter, leading
Windham to a 20-19 lead at the half.
Sophomore
point guard Meghan Gribbin got the offense
revving in the second half, scoring the
Eagles first four points of the half and
finishing the third quarter with nine of her
16 points. Bebe Butts added a couple of
baskets in the game changing quarter.
One of
Windham's standout sophomore guards Steph
Frost eyes the ball handler while preparing
defend the wing. Frost had 11 points in the
Eagles victory.
Eagles defense
was the story of the fourth quarter, only
giving up six points in the final eight
minutes. Windham held Bonny Eagle to under
ten points in three of the four quarters.
Senior forward
Kelsey McGowan talked about her team's
second straight win, "I think we did pretty
well, we pushed the ball more tonight and I
think that's what helped us."
When asked if
she thinks the team is improving McGowan
responded, "I think since the beginning of
the season what we've worked on a lot of
things in practice and really improved our
game."
Nicole
Walton is ready for action.
When asked if
the team came in with the same game plan as
they did in their win on Tuesday, Coach
Cummings said, "Tuesday we wanted to push
the ball, tonight we wanted to capitalize on
that again and get Meghan (Gribbin) to
attack the hoop and dish. We knew it would
be physical, Bonny eagle always plays
physical. We wanted to focus on composure.
Our game plan was to get the rebound, out
with it, push it."
A young fan
holds up a sign for Senior forward Amber
Allen.
Cummings
continued, "I think we did that, we can
still improve on it more. Our style is run
and gun and the girls are starting to buy
into it a little bit more. they want to play
fast paced. If we are constantly doing it
they are going to get tired but I thought
they did a nice job doing it. We can still
improve on it but they did nice for building
on it down the road."
When asked if
there was anything else her team needed to
work on Cummings said, "We can always
improve on our defense. We focus on defense
in practice. not allowing guard penetration.
I thought our guards did a much better job
tonight denying the guards from
penetrating."
Windham hosts
unbeaten Scarborough at 1PM on Monday.
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