The women of Trinity TX made the trek to St. Paul today to play coach Ruth Sinn's unbeaten--and, dare we say, unbeatable?--Tommies. Now, Trinity is a pretty good program with 138 wins and 32 losses (.812) over the past 6 seasons and a 5-1 record this year coming into today's game. Over the past 34 games (last season and this), they have lost just once by a double-digit margin, that being an 82-59 loss to Whitman on December 21, 2017.
So I think it's fair to say that a 92-50 blowout by the Tommies is an "impressive" performance. Can we say that? Yeah, we can say that. I think we can also say that it was, well, a little bit closer than that. The Tommies led "only" 41-30 at the half and 62-41 three-quarters of the way through, and then stomped all over the Tigers 31-10 in the final 10 minutes. I think we can also say that coach Sinn was not as comfortable as the score might have suggested, because she played her top players a whole lot of minutes--35 for Kaia Porter, 31 for Hannah Spaulding, 30 for Lucia Renikoff, 29 for Kaylie Brazil, 28 for Bobby Brendefer. Other than that, Madi Radtke played 16 minutes, and nobody else played 10. In a 92-50 blowout.
The Tommies shot 58/52/37 percent--11-for-21 on 3-pointers, 28-of-46 on 2s, but just 3-of-8 1s. Trinity shot 33/18/62 percent. The rebounds were 44-31 in favor of St. Thomas. The Tommies put it away early in the 2nd half. Leading 41-30, they quickly extended their lead to 54-34 as Brazil and Sarah Krynski each scored twice. Just as quickly, Brazil and Krynski each hit a 3 to make it 62-36 and it was all over but the shouting, but even then the Tommies' starting 5 accounted for 16 of their next 30 points.
So, it was an old-fashioned whuppin,' the kind that even folks from Texas can understand.
Player of the Day--Hannah Spaulding 22-14-5-4 blocks
Team of the Day--who else?
Coach of the Day--who else??
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