After a spring rain, Blackbirds swarm all over the green grass searching for food.
Blackbirds in Pettisville swarm all over loose basketballs and opponent’s passes, looking for transition baskets off turnovers.
Those above mentioned Blackbirds looked like a Pittsburgh Steeler pass rush, swarming a Cleveland quarteback, forcing 12 Fayette turnovers in the first 10 minutes to take an 18-point lead, and coast to a 50-26 win over the Eagles Thursday in Buckeye Border Conference girls basketball.
“Defensively I thought the girls did a nice job,” longtime Blackbird mentor Jason Waldvogel explained. “I think that’s when we are good and we have fun when we bring that intensity and what we call ‘next up’, when we go out and defend and they know they have four people behind them to help out.”
Ellie Grieser’s 3-pointer 17 ticks into the game began an 11-0 blast out of the gate in the first three minutes.
Andrea Grimm was the first beneficiary of those Fayette errors,…
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