It’s not often you lose to a team with 11 wins in 13 games and can’t wait to get another shot at them.
Yet, that’s exactly how Warrenton senior guard Brodey Meier feels about GAC North …
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It’s not often you lose to a team with 11 wins in 13 games and can’t wait to get another shot at them.
Yet, that’s exactly how Warrenton senior guard Brodey Meier feels about GAC North conference opponent Orchard Farm after Friday. While there is some time before the teams meet up again, Meier said he can’t wait for Feb. 13.
Even though the host Eagles rolled to the 72-49 win, Meier knows that Warrenton is capable of good things, as was evident by the team’s trailing by only four points at halftime.
“This game was frustrating, but we came in knowing that these guys are good,” Meier said. “They’ve played some very good teams, and they’ve beaten some very good teams. We knew we had to give it our all. We hung with them for one half. When they come to our place, we’ve got to put two halves together to give them a game.”
Warrenton (6-10) trailed just 26-22 at the break but the team’s metaphorical gas tank was empty as the group took the floor to start the second half.
A couple of prolonged runs helped Orchard Farm take the double-digit lead early in the quarter on its way to the blowout.
Warriors coach Mark Thomas said that fatigue leads to mistakes and those mistakes usually prove costly, as they did Friday.
“We’re struggling with our depth, to be able to finish games,” Thomas said. “A lot of times all year, we’ve played a really good first half and then the tiredness creeps in. When you start forgetting the game plan and making mental mistakes, they just compound. We’ve got to do the job of finishing.”
The coach added that while Meier went for 16 points and fellow senior Deadrick Forrest added 10, the Warriors struggled to get much in the way of production at either end of the floor from the team’s interior line-up.
“With our size that we do have, it’s not at the conditioning level for the size that other teams have,” Thomas said. “Our guards can go, and go, and go, but our big guys just can’t go up and down. Our young guys just aren’t ready to come in and guard at this level. This is a different level of defense and concentration that’s required at this level.”
Up next, Warrenton will be a part of the Hermann Basketball Tournament next week.
