I guess it's true that offense wins you games and defense wins you championships.
The Norwich Free Academy defense suffocated the Waterford Lancers Friday night in Norwich as Courtney Long and Kastine Evans held Jodie Plikus and Karli Spera, players who average over 26 points a game between them, to a combined five points in the 48-35 win.
"No, not at all," Waterford center Kerrianne Dugan said when asked if she thought a team could hold Plikus and Spera down in that manner.
"They did a really good job on us, we didn't execute as well as we had hoped but did what we could," Dugan added as she was the only offensive option for the Lancers Friday night scoring 22 points in the loss.
Waterford coach Rob Von Achen simply said he never thought anyone would be able to hold down Plikus and Spera like NFA did.
"Does anti-climactic come to mind?," Von Achen mused when asked if the Stonington semifinal took some of the air out of his team's effort in the championship game.
"I don't know, I certainly wouldn't want to say that's why we lost because they were sharper tonight and that would take away from their effort. They played well, they played better than we did," Von Achen said.
On another matter, it was a great turnout for the championship game as some 1200 looked on Friday night at Alumni Hall at NFA.