Lady Reddies
On Thursday January 28th the Reddies traveled one street over to play HSU’s arch rival Ouachita Baptist University (OBU). This historic rivalry dates all the way back to 1895 when Henderson State was known as Arkadelphia Methodist College and Ouachita Baptist was just Ouachita College. The story I heard was that when the Baptist in Arkadelphia decided to build a school the Methodist came together and decided to also build a school so that the Baptist weren’t the only ones with a school in Arkadelphia. This meaning that from the minute OBU and HSU were built, we were rivals.
Now we move forward 115 years to Thursday night at OBU. The Lady Reddies were in a fight to the finish against the Lady Tigers. The Lady Reddies would be up at half-time with a score of 44-38. Though the Lady Reddies would not trail the Lady Tigers the rest of the game it was a battle between the two teams all the way down to the last few seconds. Nothing would come easy for either team; they would both have to work hard for every point.
A big boost for the Lady Reddies was the strong play by Junior Jazmine Ellis, who would go on to drop 30 points on OBU. Ellis was scoring from all over the court. She was 7-13 from the field and 3-5 from behind the three. She would muscle her way around down low and draw the foul. At the free-throw line she made 13 out of 16 total. Ellis would also come away with 10 rebounds. If you add all that up you get one heck of a game put on my Jazmine Ellis.
While Ellis was putting a show for the fans, OBU player A’Laeshia Adams was keeping it close with a strong performance of her own, scoring 22 points. What would lead the Lady Reddies to victory were the key free-throws made at the end of the game. The Lady Reddies were 78% from the line, making 32 out of 41.
The final score was 79-76. Lady Reddies victorious over the Lady Tigers.
Reddies
Now on to a less impressive performance put on by the Reddies. The Reddies would lose this game 80 to 52.
It was a tough game offensively for the Reddies. They could make a shot within 7 feet of the basket for most of the game. It didn’t help that they weren’t connecting with their 3’s either. As a team their field goal percentage was only 28.3%, they were 17-60 from the field. Combine that with 3-15 from the 3 point line and you’re definitely going to have problems, but on top of that you add in that as a team they only made 15 out of 27 free-throws and you just shot yourself in the foot offensively. They’re FREE-throws the key word is FREE; they’re suppose to be easy points. That’s 12 more points if the Reddies could have made 27 for 27 from the line.
Junior Reddie Lance Smith, lead the Reddies with 19 points and 11 rebounds, on 6-14 shooting. Scoring 19 points is impressive, but Smith was only 7-17 for free-throws. Meaning those 19 points could have easily been 29 points.
One thing that I did see been the Reddies were on offense was that there was too much standing around. No one was moving! They would just pass the ball around the 3 point line, and hope to fine a shot. (Most of the time not a very good one) We don’t have a superstar player out there like a Kobe Bryant or a Carmelo Anthony who can score by themselves, so until we do is it too hard to ask for a little motion on offense. And what about some shot fakes, if you’re going to just pass it around the 3 point line at least turn and give the defense a shot fake to keep them guessing .
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