11-2

I am very sorry to my faithful blog readers, but I have not updated as best as I should have this weekend due to some family visiting and a bit of not feeling well over here too!

So, on Friday, the Oskaloosa Girls Basketball team played Newton at home! Thursday night the rankings came out again and the girls were back at their #15 ranking for class 4A! Earlier in the season we were #15, but then fell out of the rankings, but they were back on it again. Along with that ranking comes the added pressure, but the girls won their game easily 57-38! It was a great win as it was their third game of the week. That put them at a record of 10-2.

Saturday night the girls had their FOURTH game that week! The ranked #9 Washington Demons came to town on Saturday evening. It is always hard to play a Saturday game especially after having a full week of games already but the girls were ready to fight! It was a physical game but we held them to just four free throws in the second quarter and no field goals to open up a ten point lead at halftime. (Thanks Steve for your contribution to those stats). They were able to maintain that lead for the rest of the game even though it seemed much closer at times due to the intensity on the floor and in the stands :) They pulled out a 51-38 win! That will prove they deserve to be ranked! 

We are now 11-2.

Here are the rankings as of January 9. 2012 (before our last two games)

Class 4A

		School		Record		LW
1		Bishop Heelan		7-2		1
2		Benton		11-1		2
3		Western Dubuque		9-1		4
4		Waverly-Shell Rock		10-1		3
5		Dallas Center-Grimes		8-3		7
6		Indianola		7-4		5
7		Perry		10-1		8
8		Cedar Rapids Xavier		7-6		6
9		Washington		10-2		11
10		Lewis Central		7-1		12
11		Harlan		9-1		10
12		Winterset		9-2		9
13		Charles City		7-3		NR
14		North Scott		6-6		15
15		Oskaloosa		9-2		NR