Lake Girls remain undefeated (02-04-11)

It may not have been the best of games for Lake’s girls Thursday night, but was a good enough performance
to come away with yet another win.
Kaysie Brittenham scored 10 of her game-high 18 points in the fourth quarter, leading the Flyers to a
54-34 Suburban Lakes League victory over Woodmore at Owens Community College.
Lake, ranked fourth in Division III, improved to 16-0 overall and 9-0 in the SLL, and remained one game
up in the loss column over Genoa in the league standings. It was the Flyers’ 59 consecutive
regular-season win.
Woodmore fell three games off the pace, with its record standing at 10-7 overall and 7-3 in the SLL.
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The Wildcats kept Lake in check through the first 16 minutes of the game, only trailing by eight at the
break, but the Flyers’ defense was too much for Woodmore to handle, scoring only five field goals in the
second half, and 11 for the game.
The 11 field goals in the game resulted in the Wildcats shooting only 35 percent (11-of-31) for the game.

"I’m kind of disappointed with the way we came out," said Woodmore head coach Kyle Clair.
"We backed down to their (Lake’s) pressure a little bit. we kind of crawled into a hole if you
will. It took us until probably a minute into the third quarter that we could take the game to them a
little bit."
Though the Flyers’ defensive pressure looked outstanding as usual in the contest, forcing 18 turnovers,
head coach Denny Meyer wasn’t satisfied saying, "I felt there should have been more."
"Our focus was terrible tonight," Meyer added. "Probably the worst that it’s been all year
and that hurt us early on. We play good defense. That’s what we do even when we’re not shooting good.
That’s what keeps us in games. But I really felt we were slow tonight. There were a lot of good traps
that we had but we were slow in our rotations."
The lack of focus was evident as Lake uncharacteristically missed four easy shots from underneath the
basket in the first quarter.
Once settled in, the Flyers still didn’t shoot the ball as well as they have in past games.
While it did finish the game 24-of-53 (45 percent) from the field, Lake’s shooting percentage was
considerably lower in the first 28 minutes of the game, before Woodmore switched from a zone to a
man-to-man defense.
"We felt in the first half, we had all the shots we wanted, we just were missing them," said
Meyer. "We were missing 2-footers, we were falling away when we’d be two foot from the basket
instead of going up through people."
After the Wildcats did switch into their man defense with about four minutes remaining in the game, they
couldn’t stop the Flyes, who out-scored Woodmore 12-6 in the final 3:02.
Although Lake’s defense was slow according to coach Meyer, Woodmore wasn’t able to get the ball inside
consistently to its 6-foot senior post, Audrey Thorbahn who scored just six points in the contest.
"I didn’t think we took as quality of a shot as we could," Clair said. "We didn’t get
Audrey Thorbahn nearly enough looks on the block and that’s our game plan going into most games, that
inside-outside look."
Taylor Avers took over the Wildcats’ offense, scoring 11 points and collecting 10 rebounds.
Perhaps the most important stat for Lake was its scoring line. In a rare occurrence, four of its five
starters scored in double figures. Alyssa Shaffer was second to Brittenham’s 18 with 11 points, while
Hannah Cox and Carly Huston each added 10.
"That’s real big because everybody’s wanting to take Kaysie and Hannah away so if we can get Alyssa
and some other people to start scoring, that’s going to help us a lot," said Meyer.
Woodmore won the junior varsity game 57-17. Sumer Woodruff led Lake with seven points.