4A State Talk - Dowling Catholic (20-3) Vs. Valley, West Des Moines (20-3)

[LukeFeddersen]

Post predictions before the game and chat about the game during and after here!

 

[LukeFeddersen]

Start of 2Q - Valley 16, Dowling 12

 

[LukeFeddersen]

HALFTIME - Valley 30, Dowling 20

 

[sarcastico]

Dowling needs to figure out how to do something against this zone. Their offense looks terrible right now.

 

[LukeFeddersen]

Dowling needs to figure out how to do something against this zone. Their offense looks terrible right now.

Finally got it together at the end of that quarter.

 

[LukeFeddersen]

Start of 4Q - Valley 42, Dowling 39

 

[sarcastico]

Gotta love it, kid goes 2-8 on the season from three then hits two deep ones to get Dowling back in it. I'm guessing Valley didn't include guarding that in their gameplan. Looks like we will get a good 4th here.

 

[LukeFeddersen]

FINAL - Valley 61, Dowling 56

 

[LukeFeddersen]

Like a lot of comebacks, Dowling ran out of gas getting back into the game to take the lead. Definitely made it interesting but fell into too deep of a hole early on.

 

[sarcastico]

Like a lot of comebacks, Dowling ran out of gas getting back into the game to take the lead. Definitely made it interesting but fell into too deep of a hole early on.

Exactly what I was going to say. Just took too long to get going and by the time they did it was too late. I was really impressed by Valley, Curry and Scott are outstanding players.

 

[EastIowaHawk]

Valley's early defense set the tone for the whole game, and Dowling took too long to figure out how to attack it.

 

[StatewidePundit]

Curry and Scott are the real deal ! Valley will be a tough out.

 

[El_Doce]

I thought they looked the best out of any team today. Attacked the rim!