Goddard boys suffer pair of losses

By Sam Jack TSnews

The Goddard Lions boys basketball team took a pair of tough losses last week as they resumed their season following the winter break. The Lions lost at Andover Central 61-37 on Jan. 4, then lost at Andover, 51-20, on Friday, Jan. 7.

Facing the Andover Trojans on Jan. 4, Lions head coach Lee Baldwin said his team could not match the Trojans’ relentless pressure.

“Your first game back after Christmas break, you always worry about, did you practice hard

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But the Colts had a lot of self-inflicted trouble enough, get enough conditioning in,” Baldwin said. “They were the first team that really pressed us this year, and we clearly were not capable of handling somebody pressing us consistently for 32 minutes.”

The Tigers turned the ball over 31 times.

“We just did a bad job of kind of trapping ourselves and dribbling into bad positions, and Andover’s too good to give them that many extra possessions,” Baldwin said.

Goddard: after the break. “I was very disappointed. We self-imploded,” Davis said. “Hopefully, we learned our lesson from it.

The Eagles put up 25 points in the third quarter, however, and went up 54-41 at the end of the third quarter. The defeat

Even though Andover Central’s 31-point victory margin was even greater than Andover’s, Baldwin actually thought his team played better on Friday.

“Two of our goals in that game were to do better with taking care of the ball, and get back in transition,” Baldwin said. “Our turnovers were down to 11 in that game, which was a lot better, and we held them to 50 points, which is well below their average.

“But the story in that game was, we were 8-for34 from the floor. We got a lot of good looks, but we’re just not a good shooting team. This sport dropped Campus to 2-6 this season. is make or miss, and the team that shoots it better wins. We’re struggling with it right now.”

Campus has a pair of road games on this week’s schedule. They played at the rival Derby Panthers on Tuesday, and are scheduled to visit the Salina South Cougars this Friday.

All eight of Jake Jasnoski’s points came in the game’s second half.

“He did some really aggressive things that he’s capable of doing, so that was really encouraging to see,” Baldwin said. “He’s someone we need to play well moving forward, so hopefully that gives him some confidence that he can be a guy that we throw the ball to in the post.”

Next week, the Colts will be in Dodge City for the Tournament of Champions. The Colts won this tournament in 2020 during their undefeated season, and were champions at Chanute during tournament week last season.