St. Charles East can't overcome turnovers vs. Evanston
First-year St. Charles East girls basketball coach Aubree Schuett says she plans on having her team watch a lot of film on Friday of Thursday night's game.
The Saints definitely won't like what they see.
The SCE offense came to a screeching halt as the Saints committed 29 turnovers in a 44-29 loss to Evanston in second round action at the Schaumburg Thanksgiving tournament.
"Game film can be a great teaching tool," Schuett said. "I can talk to them all day about what they need to do. It's a whole different ballgame when they see it on film. It's a new system with a new team so a game like this is probably expected. The positive thing is it happened this early in the season. We have a lot of time to work on the things we need to fix."
The Saints (1-1) actually got off to a great start as they jumped out to an 8-2 lead. They still led 24-22 midway through the second quarter before the wheels started coming off.
Evanston (1-1) closed out the first half on a 9-2 run to lead 31-26 at the half. East then managed just 3 points in the second half. The Saints went without a field goal for the final 14-plus minutes.
"(Evanston) is a super athletic team," Schuett said. "We knew what was coming. We knew they were going to put pressure on the ball and we just couldn't execute against it. You're not going to win a ballgame with 29 turnovers. We don't have many players with a lot of varsity playing time. So we need to use this game to learn and grow."
The early bright spot for the Saints was the play of University of Alabama-Birmingham bound senior Sara Rosenfeldt, who had a team-high 12 points.
"Sara is already a very good player," Schuett said. "It's my obligation to help her grow her game even more and become a more well-rounded player. She is going to be double and tripled team a lot this year. We are going to continue to work with her on what to do when that happens."
Rosenfeldt scored on three nice post moves and a couple drives to the basket, but the Evanston defense was able to deny her the ball much of the second half.
"It was good to play against a team like this," Rosenfeldt said. "They might be the most aggressive team we will face all year. So we can learn from this. We need to definitely work on our press break."