Instead, they closed out the weekend with a 40-27 loss to Unity on Saturday afternoon after battling to a 46-41 loss to Meath Park earlier in the day. Both contests saw the Falcons generate all sorts of chances under the basket but just unable to find a way to get shots to drop – not the best results, but when the idea at this time of year is to simply build and gain experience, a job well done just the same.
The contest against Unity essentially served as the gold medal game, with the Falcons at 1-1 and Warriors at 2-0. Cornerstone would actually carry the play much of the way through, something head coach Al Block felt was promising.
“We didn’t have any basket luck and it was one of those games where we were fighting ourselves and were our own worst enemy,” Block said. “We played pretty good defence, but they made some tough shots and when you don’t answer back it just gets out of hand. And when you can’t score you can’t catch up.
“My big thing is if we take a good high percentage shot and get a good look, if we make it great, if we don’t at least we had a good shot. So it’s about getting looks and that’s what we had, you can’t be too unhappy about that and we just need bury those shots when we get the chances.”
Cornerstone’s Kiara Smith hauls down an offensive rebound in traffic against Unity.Reagan Nyhof led Cornerstone with eight points against Unity, Chiamaka Aghamelu scored seven and Trista Lang had six, all off a pair of three-pointers.
Against Meath Park, Aghamelu picked up 14 points to go along with a nine-point showing from Brooklyn Artavia.
“The girls played hard, we battled some good competition so we had three really good, hard-fought games against some teams we’re going to see later in the year and it’s good to see what they’re like,” Block said. “It just gets us into that mindframe of battling and playing really hard because a lot of teams come ready to fight. I thought we showed up each game and gave it all we had, so I can’t complain about that.”
Cornerstone opened the tournament with a 49-37 win over LCBI, led by a 15-point outing from Aghamelu.
The Vanier Spirits junior team were also in action and went winless.
The Spirits opened with a 68-36 loss to Meath Park, with Anne Marie Rouault scoring 15 points.
Their second contest was a 63-36 loss to LCBI, with Vanier getting 15 points from Danamay Maneso.
The Spirits closed out the weekend against Herbert and had their closest game of the weekend, winning both the second and fourth quarters but falling 41-29. Rouault had 14 points, including all 10 of Vanier’s fourth quarter points, Maneso and Taya Mohr had six points each.
