(Oakland) Riverside has put together a record of 3-6 in girls basketball heading into the holiday break.
The Lady Dawgs have been learning every step of the way according to coach Mitch Rice. “Just continuing to grow and jell. We came into it planning to have our hair on fire and going and going and going. Now we are figuring out how to pace the game a little bit. I thought we did a really good job against Audubon the other night of pushing it when we needed to push it and setting up things when we needed to do that. Sometimes we fell a little bit too far back and didn’t push when we should have. It’s something we are going to have to figure out being such a young team and I really think they are doing a good job of that.”
The wins they’ve earned have been over Griswold, Heartland Christian, and Missouri Valley. “Two weeks ago was really nice, going 3-1 that week. It really helped our spirits. I think we are averaging 35 points per game right now which is 8 or 9 points higher than last season. If we could continue that trend it would be a great boost.”
The Lady Dawgs look to benefit from more practice time during break. “When you are trying to give instruction you can slow things down a little bit and walk through. The more that they see things in that slower pace the better we are going to pick it up and improve.”
Freshman Elly Henderson is averaging 7.4 points and 3.3 steals per game. Elyssa Amdor is averaging 6.3 points, and 7.3 rebounds per game. The team kicks off a stretch of four straight home games January 4th when they meet Tri-Center.
Riverside coach Mitch Rice:
