PLYMOUTH – It was not a night for offense and they may have been some things that Plymouth’s Lady Pilgrims would like to have back, but the “w” isn’t one of them as they were able to take a home win from Knox 38-19.

“I thought nobody took control on the floor tonight on either end of the floor and that’s up to your seniors to do that,” said Plymouth head coach Dave Duncan. “I didn’t see anybody pull everybody together and say this is unacceptable, we’re not doing things that we need to on the floor. I didn’t see anybody do that.

“Obviously we didn’t play very well tonight but we our kids came out with a win and we’re happy about that.”

They did come out with a win and defensively were able to force 28 turnovers from the Lady Redskins – a big reason for that win. They did – uncharacteristically – make 13 turnovers of their own while rebounding and free throws continue to be an issue for the team allowing Knox 10 of their 19 points on offensive rebounds.

While the defense did play aggressively there were still lapses that made Duncan shake his head.

“I go back to communication,” said Duncan. “Our kids weren’t communicating on the floor and we weren’t dictating things on the defensive end after that start we got. We could have trapped a little more but there are some things that we need to work on to get better and that was probably the time to work on it.”

Plymouth jumped out to a 10-0 lead early in the game but it was nearly seven minutes before the Lady Pilgrims would score again.

Still Duncan has talked about needing to develop a deeper rotation to get some players off the floor occasionally and the game allowed him to get significant floor time and solid perfomances from his entire bench, in particular Ashley Harrell, and Lanae Singleton who had four rebounds.

“Some of those kids haven’t played a lot of varsity minutes,” said Duncan. “I thought Ashley did a great job in the last quarter she was able to handle the ball hit some shots and hit some free throws. Speed of the game at the varsity level is obviously different it was just good to get those kids out on the floor.”

Plymouth stays unbeaten at 6-0 with a big game at Tippecanoe Valley tonight. Knox is now 0-4.

Score by Quarters

Plymouth 10 22 30 38

Knox 4 8 10 19

Knox (19) – Coad 1 3-4 6, Shepherd 1 0-1 2, Shidler 1 0-2 4, McClellen 1 2-5 5, Emigh 0 0-0 0, Fletcher 0 2-2 2, Croft 1 0-2 2. Totals 5 7-16 19.

 

Plymouth (38) – Haynes 1 0-0 2, A. Harrell 1 3-5 5, Stevens 4 1-2 9, Andrews 0 0-0 0, Fosler 1 0-1 3, H. Harrell 1 3-3 5, Wright 2 0-0 4, Bockman 1 1-2 3, Morwood 0 0-0 0, Stephenson 0 1-2 1, Singleton 0 0-0 0, Horvath 2 2-3 6. Totals 13 11-20 38.

 

3 Pt. FG – Plymouth 1-13 (Fosler), Knox 2-7 (Coad, McClellen).

Rebounds – Plymouth 21 (Stevens 5), Knox 20 (Shidler 6).

Assists – Plymouth 3 (Stevens, Fosler, Wright), Knox 2 (Coad, Shepherd)

Steals – Plymouth 19 (H. Harrell 4), Knox 6 (Croft, Shidler 2).

Turnovers – Plymouth 13, Knox 28.

Fouls (Fouled Out) – Plymouth 16, Knox 15.