Metro Sports

Here we have Kyle Poland the KMET Radio Play by Play announcer for Metro Basketball showing you his preparation for the Metro State halftime shooting competition.  The competition consists of making a layup, a free throw, a three pointer, and a half court shot.  Help Kyle get chosen to take the shot for KMET Radio.  Tweet #freekyle @ MetroStSports and than come out Feb 25th for the final home game vs Regis.  The Metro Women’s games start at 5pm and the Men tip off at 7pm.  If you can’t come out be sure to tune in to KMET Radio to hear all the action!  Without any further ado here is Kyle’s campaign video: One Man’s Quest

The Metro Basketball teams have been struggling lately and had some people questioning the championship mettle.  (By the way I totally understand how ridiculous it sounds that to say that a team ranked 11th with 5 losses, and a team ranked 8th with two total losses have been struggling, but trust me they have.)  The Metro Men had lost four of their last five coming into Saturday vs Nebraska Kearney and the Metro Women had almost blown a 24 point second half lead to lowly Chadron State.  Needless to say these teams needed some things to go right.  On Saturday almost everything went right for both teams.  

Starting off with the #8 Lady Roadrunners you have to start with the play they got from their backup bigs inside.  Caley Dow was struggling, but it was no problem thanks to 8 points from Amy Nelson and 7 points from Desiree Collins off the bench Metro got much needed production from the bigs off the bench.  (See my post about friday nights game vs Chadron State.)  Also, they finally did what we have been waiting for them to do and stepped on the throat of a inferior team.  They were up 13 at the half and went on to outscore Kearney 48 to 26 in the second half a good sign for a team with a bad habit of letting teams hang around.  Everyone who saw any real minutes scored at least five points showing off the impressive depth of this team as the hardest coaching decision Coach Haave had to make in this game was what squad to put out there in garbage time with everyone playing well.  Also, if the 35 point win vs. Kearney was not enough Fort Lewis dropped a game moving them into a tie with Metro State.  Metro holds the tiebreaker since they defeated Fort Lewis 78-51 earlier this season at home.  

The Metro State Men came into the game against Kearney just looking for a win no matter how it came, they got a lot more.  Metro got the win Saturday winning the game 83-73.  First up on the positive side of things was the play of Tyler Cooper off the bench for the Roadrunners.  Everytime he was on the floor he played great defense and brought energy to the floor, something you want from your sixth man.  Cooper had 6 points off the bench where points have been almost impossible to come by for Coach Clark.  Also after a rough outing against Chadron Reggie Evans got his swagger back.  He exploded for 26 points and 8 rebounds against Kearney and was all over the place defensively.  Lastly, Metro was involved in a close game and won down the stretch out executing Kearney.  This has to give them some of their confidence back going into a tough road trip down to New Mexico.  Oh yeah, and Adams State lost in double overtime to CSU-Pueblo 99-98 putting the Roadrunners back into 2nd place in the RMAC.  

Overall you have to say it was a pretty magical night to be a part of the Metro State Basketball teams.

Remember to tune into the Coach Haave Show at 12pm every Wednesday and the Coach Clark Show every Wednesday at 1pm.