10AA

[coachrus]

I haven't seen anything on District 10AA this year. I know that CPA has a new coach (Legate?) and her daughter transfered with her from Davidson Academy. I think she was all district. That should give CPA a replacement for graduated all district Anna Mitchell. Is CPA the favorite this year? What about Lipscomb, Hume-Fogg, East Literature and MLK or others? Who is coming back and who do we need to watch out for?

[ptguard12]

I haven't seen anything on District 10AA this year. I know that CPA has a new coach (Legate?) and her daughter transfered with her from Davidson Academy. I think she was all district. That should give CPA a replacement for graduated all district Anna Mitchell. Is CPA the favorite this year? What about Lipscomb, Hume-Fogg, East Literature and MLK or others? Who is coming back and who do we need to watch out for?

 

CPA should still be the favorite despite the losses of Mitchell and Thurley. They will have balanced guard play with sophomore sharpshooter Meredith Roman and do-it-all junior wing Emily Boyd. Inside play should be solid with the sophomore tandem of 6-1 Lauren Thompson, who showed great improvement over the summer with her club team, and 5-11 Faith LeGate, who is the coach's daughter. Throw into the mix a pretty deep bench with numerous players that can give quality minutes and CPA should be the favorite for the District 10AA title.

 

Obviously you can never count out Lipscomb, as you know they will have quality guard play. East Lit should be down after graduating Cowan and that large senior class. Hume-Fogg, MLK, and Pearl-Cohn should all be solid, but I don't know if they have enough to take down CPA. Regardless, it should be an interesting year in 10AA.

Edited October 14, 2010 by ptguard12

[coachrus]

CPA should still be the favorite despite the losses of Mitchell and Thurley. They will have balanced guard play with sophomore sharpshooter Meredith Roman and do-it-all junior wing Emily Boyd. Inside play should be solid with the sophomore tandem of 6-1 Lauren Thompson, who showed great improvement over the summer with her club team, and 5-11 Faith LeGate, who is the coach's daughter. Throw into the mix a pretty deep bench with numerous players that can give quality minutes and CPA should be the favorite for the District 10AA title.

 

Obviously you can never count out Lipscomb, as you know they will have quality guard play. East Lit should be down after graduating Cowan and that large senior class. Hume-Fogg, MLK, and Pearl-Cohn should all be solid, but I don't know if they have enough to take down CPA. Regardless, it should be an interesting year in 10AA.

 

I saw Lauren Thompson play in the state tournament in Murfreesboro. Gibson County (best team in AA last year by far) had a hard time with her. She has developed the 8-10 foot jumper very effectively and if she continues to improve - look out.

 

I don't know anything about CPA's new coach. What does she like to do on offense and defense?

[eyeonu]

Lipscomb will have solid guard play if they're playing a team that doesn't press and that doesn't put much pressure on the ball. Otherwise, Lipscomb has always been sketch as far as ball security goes. A lot of their better players over the years have been forwards and post players, or athletic girls who might play on the wing but aren't primary ball-handlers. Lipscomb lost a ton from last year's team. It will be a major rebuilding project. Ernie will have them working hard though. Good luck to Lipscomb.

[doctorno]

I think Lipscomb may surprise some people this year. It's true that they graduated 5 seniors - 4 who pretty much started every game - but this years starters got good playing time last year and are playing well together.

 

There are no seniors on the team so they will be young. They start 4 juniors and a sophomore. Look for balanced scoring - maybe a different points leader every game. If they keep everyone healthy - something that has been a problem the past few years - they could challenge CPA for the District crown.

Edited November 21, 2010 by doctorno

[coachrus]

District 10AA play starts Tuesday night with:

 

CPA at Pearl-Cohn

Whites Creek at Lipscomb

Maplewood at Stratford

Hume Fogg at MLK

 

East Lit at White House in a non-district game

[doctorno]

District 10AA play starts Tuesday night with:

 

CPA at Pearl-Cohn

Whites Creek at Lipscomb

Maplewood at Stratford

Hume Fogg at MLK

 

East Lit at White House in a non-district game

 

CPA over PC

Lipscomb over Whites Creek

Maplewood over Stratford

East Lit. over White House

 

No surprises there. But MLK over Hume Fogg, and by a pretty good margin (if I remember the box score right). What's up there? Is Hume Fogg down? Is MLK up? I haven't seen either team play but that has to be the surprise of the week.

 

Anyone have any insight?

Edited December 2, 2010 by doctorno

[ptguard12]

CPA is looking very good early on. They have a lot of girls contributing, and their scoring is very balanced (both inside and out). They are going to be tough for anyone to take down.

[GCPioneer]

I saw Lauren Thompson play in the state tournament in Murfreesboro. Gibson County (best team in AA last year by far) had a hard time with her. She has developed the 8-10 foot jumper very effectively and if she continues to improve - look out.

 

I don't know anything about CPA's new coach. What does she like to do on offense and defense?

 

I think CPA was the best team we played in the tournament. Even over McMinn Central despite us only beating them by 3. I can't remember which player Thompson was, but CPA had a very big and tough team last year. That was one of the very few teams that matched Gibson Co.'s physical play and we did have problems with it.

[coachrus]

I think CPA was the best team we played in the tournament. Even over McMinn Central despite us only beating them by 3. I can't remember which player Thompson was, but CPA had a very big and tough team last year. That was one of the very few teams that matched Gibson Co.'s physical play and we did have problems with it.

 

WOW that says a lot coming from GCPioneer.

 

Thompson was the tallest (6'3"?) on the team. As a freshman last year she was probably the first sub off the bench. It seemed to me that she was one of a few not intimidated by GC (which was extreamly difficult give how good GC was).

 

CPA is still a young team with 3 sophomores starting (Thompson, Roman, and LeGate) and a junior (Boyd). (I am not sure what class the fifth starter is.) It will be interesting to see how they mature toward the end of the year.

[GCPioneer]

Trust me coach, I'm not the only one from gibson that said it. People look at the mcminn game and say but it was a three point game. Well, we played our worst half of basketball, beside the obion game in regular season, that we played all year in that game. Given the fact that we played well against cpa, they played an extremely good game theirselves despite the score. Cpa matched our physical play and didn't back down one bit. You guys had a tough team last year and should be tough this year. Good luck!

[coachrus]

CPA lost to Ensworth in double OT last week. Ensworth avenged their 3OT loss to CPA last year. The two teams might meet again next week if they make it to the finals of the Ensworth Christmas Tournament. CPA has to get by a very good Hillsboro team first though.