BIG RAPIDS — It would only stand to reason
the Crossroads Charter Academy girls basketball team would shoot
well at home.
But the Cougars have defied logic for most of the season. CCA shot
just 16 percent from the field in falling to Onekama 54-30 on
Thursday night at Crossroads Charter Academy High School.
"You look at the shot chart and you just
want to throw up," Crossroads coach J.J. Eads said. Poor shooting
has been a problem for the Cougars this season.
CCA shot just 7 percent in a loss to
Mason County Eastern in the first week of the season--also at home.
The Cougars shot a little better the second time around with the
Cardinals on Tuesday at Mason County Eastern, connecting on 24
percent of their shots.
“We have worked on shooting more than
any other of my six years as varsity coach,” Eads said. “We’ve
worked on the process, the basics, you name it we have done it. Whatever I’m doing, it obviously isn’t working because we can’t
make a shot.”
Meanwhile, Onekama had no such problems.
Sporting an eight-point lead, 33-25, heading into the fourth
quarter, the Portagers’ press began to take hold. Onekama scored the
first 12 points of the final eight minutes to take a 45-25
advantage.
“When we get under control and set up offensively, that is when we
could do what we wanted,” Onekama coach Nathan Bradford said. “I
thought there were times we just weren’t under control.”
