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| Cougars
too much for sick, injured NHS |
Newberg without three key players, suffers a 67-38 home loss to No.
8-ranked Canby |
By B. Scott Anderson, Newberg
Graphic sports editor
E-mail Scott at banderson@eaglenewspapers.com
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Even if the Newberg High School boys basketball team were at full
strength, toppling Canby would be a chore.
On Tuesday, the Tigers played without starter Tommy Stock and reserves Adam
Lampley and David Marvin in a 67-38 home loss to the No. 8-ranked Cougars.
Because of various illnesses, NHS coach Rod Cook started sophomores Drew
Steindl and Josh Stoulil, seniors Jon Styles and Grant Piros and junior Tyler Brown. Only
Brown and Styles have been consistent starters this season. Cook had little choice because
three of his starters – Brad Johnson, Corey Helling and Cyrus Hosteler – came
off the bench because the coach said they had missed practices due to injuries. Stock and
Lampley sat out the game with illness, as well.
Marvin, on the other hand, was unable to play because he was in an auto
accident last weekend.
“He’s fine,” Cook said. “He’s just a little banged
up. His doctor wants to keep him out until the end of the week until he heals up.”
As if the Tigers didn’t have enough to deal with, they still had to face
Canby, a team that includes 6-foot-5 post Casey Reed, considered by some the best player
in the state. The Cougars also have 6-8 junior Alex Chapman and 6-9 sophomore Clinton
Chapman.
“They’re big,” Cook said of Canby. “They’re big all
the way around to their post players to their guards and their (junior varsity) kids too.
The kids had a tough time matching up, but I thought we played pretty hard so I was happy
with that part of it.”
Newberg fell behind 12-3 after the first quarter, the lone NHS basket coming
on a three-pointer by Stoulil. Canby extended its lead in the second quarter when
Canby’s JC Cook hit Reed for an alley-oop dunk, his second of the game, with 3:20
remaining until halftime. By that time, the Tigers were in a 22-8 hole.
The highlight of the game for the Tigers was Stoulil. He hit five
three-pointers on his way to a game-high 21 points.
“I thought Josh played really well,” Cook said. “He’s a
spark plug and when he gets hot, he can stroke it and he showed that tonight.”
Although Johnson added 13 for the Tigers only two other players scored for
Newberg. The first Newberg player to score who was not Stoulil or Johnson was Hostetler.
He hit 1 of 2 free throws with 5:03 remaining in the game.
“(The Cougars) played good defense and pushed us out of the flow of our
offense and when you let teams push you around out there, you have a hard time getting
into your offense ...,” Cook said. “We had trouble putting the ball in the hole.
We had some good looks that, had we knocked down, we could have made it a little bit
different as far as score goes.”
Coming into the game, Cook said he knew the Cougars wouldn’t do anything
he hasn’t seen them do in the past. It was just a matter of the Tigers being able to
stop it, he said.
“The juniors and seniors have played against these guys for years,”
Cook said. “We knew exactly what they were going to do. It was just a matter of us
going out there and getting it done. Tonight, we just didn’t get it done.” |
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From Dec. 18,
2004, Newberg Graphic
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