Cathedral plays sloppy game, but still wins
Published Friday, January 4, 2008
NATCHEZ — It wasn’t pretty, but it was a win for the Cathedral Green Wave.
Despite having no offensive flow and shooting poorly from the floor, the Green Wave were able to take a 50-31 victory over Monterey Thursday night.
“Offensively that was one of our worst games of the year,” Cathedral coach Peter Arnold said. “We couldn’t make shots and had no flow on offense at all. It was a very ugly game.”
However, what Cathedral (14-3) lacked on the offensive end, they made up for with a tenacious defensive effort that held the Wolves to single-digit scoring in every quarter but the fourth, when the game was already well in hand.
“Defensively we played very well,” Arnold said of his team. “They only had 11 points at halftime and just 19 after the third quarter.”
Thanks to the defensive effort and a rebounding advantage, the Green Wave took a 21-11 lead at halftime.
They finally got the offense started in the third quarter, outscoring the Wolves 17-8 to pull away for the win.
Arnold said the holiday break might have had something to do with Cathedral’s sloppy play.
“That had a lot to do with it,” Arnold said. “That’s why we schedule a game at this time before we get back into district play next week. We want to get our bad game out of our system before district starts again. It was a sloppy, ugly game, but we won.”
Juan Gray led the Wave with 16 points while Andy Lucas added 14. Skylar Bacon and Jamerson Jones both tallied nine.
Monterey was led by Beau Shivley with 11 points and Ross Lipsey with eight.
