2006 MS Boys Basketball

January 29 IISL Tournament: Orchard
Our Deaf Hoosiers played against #2 seed Orchard on their home court to open the I.I.S.L. playoffs. Orchard played well, had good chemistry, and nice-sized players. They played a good defensive game against us. They defeated us 61 to 18. Coach Sigafoose told the boys that he was proud of them, because they played hard, tried their best and exhibited good sportsmanship against Orchard. The coach noticed that his boys improved their skills every game.

Coach Sigafoose can't believe basketball season is over! He will miss the boys! His personal goal in the 19th year as the Middle School coach is to take the boys and join a spring, summer and fall league basketball at the fieldhouse, basketball camp in summer and have a weekly clinic basketball in the KRC. This will help the boys continue to improve their skills and be ready for the middle school boys basketball season in 2007 and 2008! The goal is to be in the top 4 seed for tourney next year!!

January 23: St. Richards
The Deaf Hoosiers played against St. Richard in our last homecourt game of the season. St. Richard defeated us. It was 51 to 34. We will play against Orchard on their home court next Monday in the IISL Tourney. Kyle Bingham and Keren Martinez scored 11 points. Rusty Hobbs scored 5 points and had 9 rebounds.

January 18: Greenwood Christian Academy
The Deaf Hoosier played against Greenwood Christian at their home court. The middle school boys played well to the end of the game; our boys pressed them and forced many turnovers. We led 14 to 7 at halftime. We controlled the game by having a lead all the way to the end of game.. We defeated them by 14 points, 39 to 25. Keren Martinez scored 10 points and 7 steals. Malven Earthmon scored 9 points and 8 rebounds; Rusty Hobbs scored 9 points and 6 steals. Kyle Bingham scored 7 points.

January 16: St. Richards
We played against St. Richards on their home court. We were down by 5 points, 16 to 11, in the 1st quarter. St Richards were ahead of us, because we had many turnovers by them pressing us in the 2nd quarter. We were down 16 points by halftime, 31 to 16. During halfime, Coacxh Sigafoose explained to the boys how to break St. Richard's press. We fought hard to catch up, played better and improved by breaking the press in the 3rd quarter. We almost shut them down in the 3rd quarter, but our boys ran out of gas in the 4th quarter. We lost 45 to 33. Our boys are looking forward to a rematch with St. Richard next week on Tuesday which will be our last home game of the season!

Rusty Hobbs scored 10 points. Keren Martinez scored 7 points with 6 rebounds and 3 steals. Kyle Bingham scored 5 points with 3 steals. Kayree Thomas and Malven Earthmon scored 4 points apiece.

January 11: St. John Lutheran
We played St. John Lutheran  on our home court and played outstanding basketball with a beautiful fast breaks, many nice and good bounce passes, offense plays and good defense! We shut them down in the 1st quarter 21 to 0.  We led 26 to 10 at halftime.  We defeated them by 17 points.  It was 42 to 25. All ten players played about 12 minutes each. It was nice to have all of the players on the court! Kyle Bingham and Malven Earthmon scored 10 points. Rusty Hobbs scored 9 points and had 4 assists. Keren Martinez scored 7 points, 5 assists and 6 rebounds. Dylan Osborne and Tony Long grabbed 8 rebounds. 

January 9: Kingsway Christian
The Deaf Hoosiers played their first away game of 2007. We played against Kingsway on their homecourt. We were tied in the 1st quarter, 7 to 7. At halftime we were down by 6 points. It was 12 to 18. We tried our best and fought hard in the 2nd half. We were down by 5 points at the end of the 3rd quarter. It was 17 to 22.  We lost by 9 points. The final score was 35 to 26. Our boys ran out of energy in the 4th quarter, because of the long winter break and only one day of practice before the first game of 2007.  Keren Martinez scored 8 points, had 10 rebounds and 7 steals.  Rusty Hobbs scored 6 points. Malven Earthmon scored 5 points and grabbed 8 rebounds. Kyle Bingham scored 3 points. 

December 13: Trader Point
We played against Trader Point on our home court. They played well in the first half. We down by one point. It was 19 to 20. We struggled in the second half. We were down about 14 points. I told boys to keep fighting and aggressive/ hustle to catch up but too late. We lost by 8 points. It was 43 to 35. I told boys that we have a tough schedule games in January. I told boys that we are still learning and we need to play smarter, better defense, add new offense plays and improve offense, box-out rebounds and our goal to have better and improvement team in Janurary.  Keren Martinez-Cruz scored 16 points , 7 rebounded and 3 steals. Rusty Hobbs scored 13 points and 5 rebounds. Kyle Bingham scored 5 points, 2 steals and 2 assists.

December 12: Orchard
The Deaf Hoosiers played aganist Orchard at their home court. At halftime we were down by 10 points. It was 23 to 13. In the 3rd quarter the score was Orchard 14 to ISD 13 and 4th quarter Orchard 8 to ISD 7. We lost by 12 points. It was 45 to 33. We played very well, outstanding hustle and aggressive defense and even with Orchard in the second half but we need to work on box-out rebound. In the past, Orchard would win on average by 30 points per game.

Keren Martinez-Cruz scored 19 point with five 3 point shot, 6 rebounds and 3 steals. Kyle Bingham scored 6 points and 4 steals. Rusty Hobbs and Ben Polstra scored 4 points.

December 6: Irvington
Deaf Hoosiers played against Irvington at their home game. The 1st quarter, our boys were not prepared to compete against them. They outscored us 14 to 2 in the 1st quarter with two minutes left. We fought hard to 6-0 run in the end of 1st quarter. It was 8-14. We rallied with runs as many 12 points in the 2nd quarter. We almost shut them out in the 2nd quarter. It was 12-2. We led at halftime 20-16. In the second half, we kept leading all the way in the end of game. We won and it was 53 to 44. Coach was pleased with the team. They fought hard and did not give up but we need to work on to be prepared at the beginning of the game. Rusty Hobbs scored 19 points. Malven Earthmon scored 15 points. Scott Grandt scored 10 points. Kayree Thomas scored 7 points.

December 5: Sycamore
Our 7/8 grade boys played against Sycamore at their home court. Our goal was very simple. Be patience offense, box-out rebound, aggressive and hustle defense and press. The 1st quarter, we were down 1-15. We had struggle with offense shooting and struggle defense. The 2nd quarter, we played better and we were down 13- 23. The 3rd quarter, we continued fighting to catch up and we were down 25-33. The 4th quarter, we had many steals, many second chance rebounds and fast break to the baskets. We finally open with the lead score of 36-35 in about 50 second left. We controlled and led until end of the game. We won and the final score was 41 to 37. The coaches were very proud of boys because we fought and didn't give up!! Good Job!

Keren Martinez Cruz scored 11 points, Scott Grandt scored 10 points, Malven Earthmon scored 9 points, Rusty Hobbs scored 7 points and Kayree Thomas 4 points.

November 30: Trinity Lutheran
Yesterday we hosted Trinity Lutheran in KRC. Our game goal was very simple. Aggressive defense, box-out for rebound, fast break after the basket and patience offense. The 1st half we lead 17-16. We had many good drives to the basket. We had couple offense rebounds and 2nd chance scoring. It was good 1st half. The 3rd quarter, we had many steals and fast break to the baskets. We broke out open with the lead score of 29-20. Excellent 3rd quarter and we hoped to close the game with WIN. The 4th quarter, we had too many turnovers that helped them to catch up with us. We weren't patient at the closing minutes, and blew up. They took their first lead of the game under 1 minute play. But we managed to come back tie the game and forced overtime with score 33-33. The game was filled with turnovers and nail biting. Too many close shots were missed too. 1st overtime, Scotty Grandt almost sealed the game with game winning shot and was forced to play 2nd overtime. Unfortunately we fell short with turnover, especially the mental error and lost 39-45 in 2nd overtime. The coaches were proud of the boys because we fought and didn't give up. It was the experience that we didn't have, but we're learned.

November 21: Park Tudor
The Middle School boys played against its long-time rival Park Tudor at their home court. We played well and shut them down in the 2nd quarter. We led 12 to 2 at halftime. We controlled by having a 10 point lead all the way to the end of game. We defeated them by 10 points. It was 31 to 21. Team free throws were 9 out of 14. Rusty Hobbs was outstanding , making many good drives and scoring 15 points (7 out of 10 free throws) and grabbing 7 rebounds. Kayree Thomas scored 4 points.

November 16: Calvary Lutheran
The MS Deaf Hoosiers Boys played against Calvery Lutheran at their home court. Calvery Lutheran players played very well and had hot hands shooting about 70 percent FG. They had a nice size of players and played quick, smart and big. We had been defeating them many times in the past. Our players tried their best and fought hard against them. We lost 70 to 29. We need to work on tough mentality. The coach told them I m so proud of them because they tried their best and good sportsmanship when we were big down by points.

November 14: Trader Point
The 7&8 Grade Deaf Hoosiers played against Trader Point at their home court. We played very well in the 2nd quarter!! It was 13-2 in the 2nd quarter. We led 18-10 by halftime. We kept leading by 8 points until 4 minutes left in the fourth quarter. We made many turnovers and our offense tried many good inside shots many times but we missed a lot of good opportunities. We won by one point. It was 36 to 35. Whew! We need to work on being patience, control the ball for offense, and inside shooting. Keren Martinez-Cruz played an outstanding game and scored 14 points, 5 rebounds, 6 assists, and 3 steals. Malven Earthmon scored 9 points, 5 rebounds and 3 steals. Kyle Bingham and Kayree Thomas scored 4 points.

November 7: International
MS boys 7/8 grade played their first game against International at their home court. ISD played an outstanding game in the first half! We were down by 1 point at halftime.

In the second half, our offense tried many good shots many times but we missed a lot of opportunities.

We lost by 16 points, 45 to 29. Coach Sigafoose believes that our team will improve every game! Malvern Earthmon, Scott Grandt and Keren Martinez-Cruz played an outstanding game in their first game.