The Hornets went to Ravenna to face the Ravens in their second scrimmage today. East Canton won 3 of the 5 ten minute periods but that does not tell the true story of the match. The first three periods were dominated by the Hornets to an accumulative score of 51-14. The last two periods were won by Ravenna by a total score or 31-20. The large disparity in score through three periods was mostly due to a swarming defense generating easy buckets in transition for the Hornets. Early on, Ravenna had trouble running their sets or even getting a quality shot at the basket. This trend continued for 3 periods until each team's rotations widened and fatigue set in.
Ravenna was clearly the deeper team, but that would be expected with the large difference in school sizes (Ravenna has around 480 boys in the high school compared to East Canton having 160). Coach Spurgeon had this to say about his teams effort, "The intensity was there. I was proud of that aspect. We have a lot of small things to correct but we have plenty of time to address those issues before our first game." Though both teams are members of the Portage Trail Conference, The Hornets (County Division) and Ravens (Metro Division) will not meet in the regular season. Next up for the Hornets is another scrimmage on Tuesday against the Tigers of Strasburg.
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Good to see Hornets finally play a worthy opponent. Looking forward to seeing the big kid from Strasburg play.
Don't Hornets live in "nests"?
It's my understanding that a hive and nest are somewhat interchangeable... I picture the hive as the communal location for hornets to work for the queen (Do you think Spurg knows he is a queen?). Thus, the area of supporters of the hornets should fittingly be called The Hive. I may very well be wrong. In that case, The New Orleans Hornets blog is also called The Hornet Hive and I blame them for inspiring the name ha
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