Randolph cruises past Pardeeville

Any chance I can see Randolph play against a team that is actually somewhat decent team I'll be at the game. Coming into this game I thought Pardeeville would give them somewhat of a game but, evidently I was wrong. Pardeeville was anything but, impressive but, I have to take into consideration that this was Pardeeville's first game of the year.

From the get go Randolph was the aggressor looking to score and they were getting to every loose ball. Pardeeville came out in a zone not sure if it was 1-3-1 or 2-3 but, it seemed to give Randolph some trouble, for whatever reason Pardeeville came out of it early in the first quarter. At the end of the first quarter Randolph was up 15 to 3 and never looked back as they got the easy 65 to 33 victory. Randolph road the coat tails of 6'4 junior Jay Peters early on, who was able to hit the mid range shot all night particularly in transition. Peters has really improved over the past year and seems to have grown a few inches as well. Throughout the entire game it was the Randolph defense that really set the tone. 6'8 senior Cody Reuter really led the D from the inside out as he was able to block shot after shot, which caused Pardeeville to be really tentative. I think if Pardeeville would of gone right at Reuter instead of stopping and trying to go over him, they would of got the big man in foul trouble.

In the second half Randolph's defense continued to be strong and that was able to key their fast break. Reuter continued to block shots and 6'4 junior Aaron Retzlaff  grabbed the rebounds and they would outlet it to their point guard 5'10 senior Miles Taylor who would push the tempo and get his teammates open looks. Randolph cleared their bench with only five minutes left in the game and got the easy W, 65 to 33.

Top Players
Jay Peters 6'4 junior- Has a very nice mid range jump shot and moves extremely well for a player with his size. Just looks like a player.
Aaron Retzlaff 6'4 junior- Offensive game seemed to of suffered alittle as he played on the post much more this year. A tremendous rebounder who does all the little things. Along with Peters plays a very nice two man game in the high post.
Eric Schepp 6'1 junior Pardeeville- The one player who wasn't afraid to take the ball at Reuter and challenge the big man.

Box Score
Randolph 65- Peters 16 Retzlaff 12 Hunter Verhulst 10 Miles Taylor 6 Collin Vander Gailen 6 Duke Vander Galien 6 Reuter 5 Dylan Adel 3 Wesley DeYoung 0 Chris DeVries 0
Pardeeville 33- Schepp 9 Cameron Knutson 5 Tyler Bush 4 Mackenzie Manthey 3 Logan Dredske 3 Trace Osborn 3 Kemal Kirchmeier 3 Eric Curtis 2 Nate Schmidt 1 #2 0

Some final thoughts on the game. Pardeeville will probably do fairly well in their conference as the Trailways isn't the toughest conference and they are one of the larger schools in the conference. Randolph will once again be one of the to teams in D5 because they have that great defense and are still one of the taller teams you will fine in D5. They have a very good top seven players but, one thing that shocked me was that they only had 10 players on the team. In the past Randolph has always had at least 15 players. I'm not sure if it's school enrollment that caused the drop in numbers or what but, just something that surprised me. Should be a great year as the season has just started.