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Sonja Karp
NLJ Sports Reporter
The growth curve for head coach Allen
Von Eye’s Dogie basketball team has been
steep, and though the squad is heading
into the Christmas break without a notch
in the win column, over the course of
their first four games the improvements
the inexperienced squad has shown has
been impressive.
“We have grown incredibly already in
the four ball games we have played so far
this season. Our defense was much better
and we did some really good things,” Von
Eye nodded. “Our help side ’still needs
some work,’ but we have been doing a lot
of different things defensively, so we’re
not really good at anything yet. It’s early
enough in the season, so I’m confident that
we’ll get there.”
In their home opener on Thursday, the
Dogies knew they were up against a solid
basketball team in Sundance who came
into the Dome with a great deal of experi-
ence. Though the Bulldogs fell from third
to sixth in the 2A polls last week, they
were still coming in pretty loaded.
“Sundance has played a lot of bas-
ketball games together as a team, so
we knew they would be a challenge,”
Von Eye began. “But I was really happy
with the way our guys played because
they went hard and really battled for the
whole game.”
The Dogies started the contest off
strong on defense, and aggressive on
the offensive end, so much so that they
quickly accumulated six ofl’ensive fouls
incurred from attacking the rim. However,
by the end of the first quarter the score
was tight with Sundance holding a slim
three-point lead.
“I knew they were going to try to take
a ton of charges,” Von Eye admitted. “At
first I thought the calls were a little ques-
tionable, but afier looking at the film they
were all pretty legit.”
In the second quarter, the Bulldogs
went on a little bit of a run hitting four
threes to end the half up 32-20.
“We did a pretty good job of defending
them everywhere but left them a few open
looks from the outside,” Von Eye began.
“We also didn’t rebound the ball very well,
and that’s been an Achilles Heel for us.
I know we’re small but we have to keep
teams ofi‘ the glass if we’re going to give
ourselves a chance.”
After coming out of the locker room the
Dogies battled with the Bulldogs for the
remainder of the contest, matching them
point for point to finish it out down 51-63.
“We shot the ball better, and though we
were a little quick-triggered offensively in
the beginning of the first half, we settled
in and did some good things in the second
half,” Von Eye insisted. “We have really
stressed moving the ball and when we get
to the third or fourth reversal, we’ll start to
attack. I was really proud of us because we
had several possessions in a row that were
really good basketball.”
NHS Mens Basketball
Newcastle v. Sundance 12/17/20: 51-63
Zach Purviance: 14 points, rebounds, 1 assist, 1 steal,
charges taken
Tate Engle: 5 points, rebounds, 3 assists, 1 steel
Aidan Chick: 19 points, rebounds, 2vassists, 2 steals
Avery Chick: 4 points, 2 rebounds, 4 steals
Christian Santos: 4 points. 1 rebound, 1 steal, 1 block
Quint Perino: 5 points, 1 rebound, 1 steal
Gavin Gray: 1 rebound, 1 block
Newcastle Q Laramle12I19120: 28-68
Zach Purviance: points, rebounds, 1 assist, 1 steal, 1
block, 1 charge taken
Tate Engle: 7 points, 1 rebound. 1 assist, 2 steals
Landon Engle: 6 points, 1 rebound
Aidan Chick: points, 5 rebounds, 1 steal
Avery Chick: 2 rebounds, 1 assist, steals
Christian Santos: 5 points, 1 rebound, 1 assist
Quint Perino: 1 steal
Gavin Gray: points, rebounds
Braden Jenkins: 2 rebounds, 1 assist. 1 steal
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Dogies close out preseason schedule
Photo by Alexis Barker/NLJ
Zach Purviance filled up the stat column in the Dogles’ home opener
against
Sundance last Thursday flnlshlng wlth 14 polnts, 5 rebounds, 1 assist, 1
steal
and he took 2 charges.
Aidan Chick was his team’s leading
scorer finishing the night with 19 points.
Of those, nine points came from beyond
the arc, and he went 6-6 from the line after
being fouled on two three-point attempts.
Zach Purviance was close behind with 14
points, Tate Engle and Quint Perino each
added five points while Avery Chick and
Christian Santos both contributed four to
the team’s final score.
The squad took what they learned
from the Sundance contest into their game
against Laramie on Saturday. Th€"'47i
think helped,” Von Eye began. “I thought
the kids fOught hard, and we didn’t back
down from them. We attacked them hard
and moved the ball well.”
However, Laramie just proved to be too
much for the Dogies and by the end of the
third quarter had increased their lead to 40,
which instituted the mercy rule resulting in
a running clock for the fourth quarter.
With the remaining eight minutes, the
Dogies matched them point for point to
close out the contest with a 28-68 loss.
"'“""“Tiié" ’ score really didn’t reflect
how
Plainsmen were bigger, faster andneleepenggguyve played,” Von Eye
reiterated. “I know
than Newcastle, and were coming off a
decisive win over Jackson on Friday.
“The growth we showed on Thursday
definitely carried over to Saturday, and I
know that the score doesn’t indicate that,
but in all honesty, we were definitely the
underdogs,” Von Eye determined. “We
actually played a lot better than what
showed up on the scoreboard.”
The Dogies started out the game in a
2-3 zone defense in order to try to defend
Laramie’s big inside presence, and though
Von Eye was pleased with the defense the
team played, he admitted that playing a
zone may have contributed to rebounding
woes in the first half.
“I was really happy with our zone, but
we didn’t box out in it,” he sighed. “We’d
force them into some difficult shots like
we wanted to, but then they’d get two or
three more opportunities at the rim and that
makes it tough to win.
In the first half, the Dogies allowed the
Plainsmen to get 18 offensive boards while
Newcastle was only able to pull down two,
thus giving Laramie 16 more opportunities
to score. Unfortunately, Laramie was able
to use those opportunities to go into the
half up 28 points over the Dogies.
“In the second half, the kids played
better. We went man-to-man exclusively
and made some offensive tweaks which I
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it doesn’t show in the Win/loss column
and I’m not a moral victory kind of guy,
but I also get that we are an inexperienced
basketball team and it’s going to take a
minute for us to figure each other out and
we have really grown through the pre-
Christmas schedule.”
Aidan Chick was once again the team’s I
leading scorer with eight points. He was
followed by Tate Engle with seven, Landon
Engle with six, Purviance and Santos with
five apiece and Avery Chick and Gavin
Gray with two each.
The Dogies will start 2021 with a trip
to Worland on Monday, Jan. 4, to face off
against what Von Eye described as the best
team in 3A and probably about as good
as several of the 4A teams in the state.
They will follow that up by hosting the
Torrington Trailblazers on Friday night
at which time they will honor the senior
players this season.
“We’ll be jumping right back into it
when we come back,” Von Eye chuckled.
“I told the guys that this is what we
want, to play these teams that are going
to challenge us in every single facet for
32 minutes because that is how we grow
and how we get better. It’s a trial by fire,
but we’re going to figure things out and it
will be good to get us ready for the confer-
ence season.”
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