St. Michael's Academy vs Stony Point

Stony Point was a tough draw for St. Michael's Academy's second game of the season.  With some players still playing football  holding off Stony Point was going to be a tough task.  The first quarter was pretty even both teams finished the quarter with 15 points.  The second quarter is where Stony Point made their run scoring 20 points and holding St. Michael's to 13, at the end of the first half Stony Point lead 35 to 28. 

The action slowed down in the third quarter with Stony Point putting up 17 points to St Michael's 10 and extending their lead to 14 points.  But St. Michael's was not rolling over, at the start of the fourth quarter St. Michael's defense began doing a great job against Stony Point's offense holding them to only 13 points.  With such a huge defense effort St Michael's offense suffered.  It looked like the defensive effort just took to much out of the Crusader's who were only able to put up 15 points of their own and not enough to over come the Stony Point lead.

St. Michael's defense did a great job holding 6'9" Sr. John Cornett to only 11 points and 6'10" Sr. Nate Anderson to only 2. The Crusader's Garza lead the scoring with 15 points, not far behind Sr. Seth Blanke had 13 and Sr. Jack Kiser 11. Its good to see St. Michael's team scoring so evenly divided this year. If the Crusader's can work on keeping their scoring to 12 to 15 points per quarter. I can see them defeating a lot of their opponents especially in their TAPPS Conference. 

Stony Point's defense needs to go back to the drawing board and find out what they need to correct prior to conference play.  With two seven footers on the court there's no reason why a team like St. Michael's Academy should put up 53 points.  With eight Seniors and two Juniors this Stony Point team should be clicking on all cylinders right now.  A two point outing for 6'10" Nate Anderson should be unacceptable for coach Route. Anderson should be looking at a 12 to 15 point average this season, and I think before the season is over he will be in that area.

Stony Point 65, St. Michael's 53

	1	2	3	4	OT	T
Stony Point	15	20	17	13	—	65
St. Michael's	15	13	10	15	—	53

SPHS: Arnold 6, Moore 3, White 15, Kampe 9, Allen 8, Cornett 11, Russell 11, Anderson 2
SM: Garza 15, Allen 6, Kiser 11, Blanke 13, Sexton 8
Records: SM: 0-2, SP: 1-0.