Cretin’s offense was clicking like mid-season Saturday to open play at the East Court at the Breakdown Tip-Off at Hopkins Lindbergh. Cretin used terrific ball movement to create easy shots both inside and out, and so they were able to…
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“We’re ahead on offense,” Cretin coach Joe Lynch said, “because we’ve been focusing on it in practice. Defense is something that we’ve got to work on, obviously.”
But, Cretin played pretty well on defense, too. They threw three different defenders—Chan’el Anderson-Manning, Justyna Butler and Haley Moore—and an occasional zone at Morgan Hill and Mpls. South. Hill came into the game needing 29 points to reach 2,000 for her career, but Cretin held her to 6-of-17 shooting. She made it to the line 10 times and made 9, but just 2-for-2 in the 2nd half. In fact, Morgan and her sister Jade shot just 8-of-25 between them.
Cretin took the lead for good at 7-5 and led by 10 most of the way. A flurry of Cretin turnovers in the second half kept the margin from getting bigger. But then it was South that ran out of gas and Cretin closed it out on a 16-4 run.
In addition to her 31 points, Hottinger shot 13-of-16 FG with 10 rebounds and 2 assists. Along with her 14 points, Moore led Cretin with 3 assists, while Edinger led with 3 steals to go with her 12 points. Sydney Jackson played well off the bench with 2 points and 2 rebounds, 3 assists and 2 steals.
Morgan Hill is now at1,997 points, and will be going for 2,000 Tuesday night at Burnsville.
