We faced our strongest opponent and played our best game of the tournament this afternoon, but came up short against the Georgia Metros, a tall, strong, skilled and athletic team, from the club that gave us Maya Moore, two time NCAA player of the year at UConn. We started out playing worried and intimidated, falling behind by 13 points in the first quarter, before waking up and realizing that we are just as good as anyone at this tournament, as long as we play tough and play OUR game. Hard-nosed defense and quick passes frustrated the Metros and put us right back in the game, as we scratched and clawed our way back to a 41-40 lead, before we ran out of gas and lost by 7, in part because we missed 5 open layups and shot 9-24 from the foul line including missing the front-end of 3 1-and-1s. OUCH!
Haley showed no fear driving hard to the basket and breaking the press, Becky and Becca shut down their two leading scorers, Goose and the Maddies jumpers gave us a SHOT in the arm early and late, Liz ripped some HUGE rebounds, Kelly went hard to the hole, Sammy hit some sweet runners, Cat grabbed big rebounds. After surviving the initial ambush, we played like Warriors, and made our program proud, but the best part of the day was yet to come.
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