Summer Summer Time :)/ Digging Into The Crates

Hey guys and girls.. the blog is going to be wrapping up soon. :( Yeah I know you're kind of sad, I am too. I got the opportunity to give everyone an up close and personal look into our team and some of the things we experienced. Our post season is also wrapping up. Still no word on the recruiting search. Hey, it'll work out for the best and this is a big summer for the senoirs on our squad.

As far as the digging in the crates in the post, I found some video of the team from my freshman year. Let's see how posting this is going to work....




Hey!!! I got it to work! Thats our game against Lenoir Rhyne. That game was intense. I think we won that one if I recall. I wish we had some film of our game in the Time Warner Cable Arena in Charlotte (Bobcats Arena), we got to play on an NBA floor! Thats a great feeling, I had 17 pts in that one. We also won that one. Well I think it's time to wrap it up, YouTube has a couple other clips so watch them. Talk to you next week!

First Workout..

This post-season is still moving slow, but this week brought us some pretty good open gyms. Alot of guys from around the area came to the gym to play, and its helping us in the end. We also had our first individual workouts today. They really werent as bad as I thought they would be. I kinda wished I would have played better in the open gym session though.

Our workouts started with some dynamic stretching, to get our muscles loose. I really like to do those before games and workouts because they speed up the process for my body. Regular streching works but it doesnt make me feel as good as the dynamic stretch.

Individual sessions also helps everyone on the team gain confidence in their game. Alot of basketball teams are at this point in their season. Its actually not that bad. We still havent had any recruits. Yeah, that part is kind of discouraging. As players we have no idea what kind of players are coming in for the fall.

Hopefully the coaches pick some good guys. If not we're going to have a tough season, well... not really. We have a lot of tools coming back next season. At this point I guess I can stop rambling about our post-season, talk to you guys next week.

The End of the Road...... For now.

Our season ended at Augusta State in the NCAA tournament. (Crap!) We lost to USC Aiken in the second round of the tournament. We beat Armstrong Atlantic in the first round game by 7. It was an upset. They were the 3rd seed and we were the 6th. Both games were intense and USC Aiken just made more plays than us.

Throughout our season we have been on winning streaks and have had our share of loses. We manage to gain our 3rd straight 20 win season, 3rd consecutive tournament bid, and 2nd straight conference tournament championship. Hell of an accomplishment wouldn't you think?

With the conclusion of our season came shocking news to my teammates and I. USC Aiken's starting point guard was killed on Wednesday in a car accident. He was a senior, and he was on his way back home in Ohio........... the news almost buckled my knees when I heard about it. We just played those guys last week and now he's dead. For anyone out there reading the blog, please take a moment of silence for Javonte Clanton.

I guess I'll end this post with that. Just hearing about a young person die is pretty deflating. Stay tuned for the postseason news.

Well ummmmm....

Well in my last post I talked to you all about us matching up with our rival, Lenior Rhyne. Ummmm we loss the game. We didnt play up to our potential and let another opprotunity slip from our grasps. We didnt step up in the big game environment and we loss. I was very disappointed, but we lived to see another day.

On Wednesday we played Carson-Newman. We jumped out a little slow and eventually pulled out the win in the second half. That game was extremely important, we had to get our confidence back and we needed a win for home court in the conference tournament.

Senior day is coming up, and we have Brevard coming here. Another big game that cant slip away. I think were ready though. WE have our confidence back and we should have a good showing.

I think all of the guys are seeing the big picture now. Hopefully we can get into our early season stride, making all the plays needed to win the game. The March Madness is brewing and we always seem like were ready for the big time.

Rebirth

Hello everyone! Today is my second day on the blog, and also the resurgence of our team. After losing to Newberry, we got our butts whooped in practice by our coaches. It killed me physically. My knees were sore as crap afterward. We went to Mars Hill and played our butts off. Their defensive scheme is crazy! They're all over the place

After winning at Mars Hill, we had Lincoln Memorial up next. They had to come to us, the game was more personal than anything for me. They embarrassed us out there, so we had to win this game. Winning against them would also put us back in the hunt for the regular season title.

We traded the lead back and forth throughout the game, I thought we had momentum going into the second half but they got up by 9 points with 5 min left in the game. After getting chewed out by coach we finally got it together and took the lead. We won by three points.

Saturday is a BIG game. We play Lenoir Rhyne (LR). Our rivals. Enough said. We play there Saturday. I expect the gym to be packed. I know the guys will be ready for this one. How could you not be ready for this one?! Its been on my mind since we won the last one.

This should be a one to remember. Come see us play!!

Day One.. Ok, 120.

Hi, Im Rob. I am a junior at Catawba College and I am on the school's basketball team. Our season has had its share of ups and downs. Too bad our downs come during conference play. Our pre-season was tough. We made it through though, everyone got better through the process.

Our season started off great we got to play some good teams. Even got to play NC State! That was an amazing experience, something I had been waiting for a long time. The team played well, I scored 21 points on an ACC school. That was alot of motivation. That experience has carried me through the season.

Once the regular season started. We were rolling. We knocked off 8 straight games. We loss our 1st game to Johnson C. Smith, they always seem to give us trouble. Lost our 2nd one to a really good Augusta State team on a buzzer beater. We also lost to UNC Asheville, they outworked us.

After the Xmas break we won five straight conference games and.............. blew 4 straight games after that streak!!!!! We were 9th in the nation playing well, and all of a sudden were off.

This is the point we pick up at. February 12th. Were 5th in the conference and were trying to find a way. We have 5 games left in this season. This is gonna be a journey this month, as well as March.

Stay posted!!!