Parish Episcopal School of Dallas defeated Yavneh 60-38 Tuesday evening. The loss drops the Bulldogs record to 4-3.
For the second straight night in an unfamiliar environment, Yavneh struggled from the outset and could never recover. Turnovers, failure to box out, and an overall lack of intensity cost the Bulldogs once again. A ridiculous 26 turnovers are hard for any team to recover from. Throw in just 14/41 shooting and 8/20 free throw shooting and you have a recipe for disaster. The team simply failed to execute in all aspects of the game. Parish spurted out of the gate 14-2 and led 18-6 after a quarter. They used Yavneh’s lackluster early effort to force 6 first quarter turnovers and cash in on multiple offensive rebounds. Still, it could easily have been worse. Parish guard Arturo Gandara, a scorer of 17 against Yavneh a year ago, missed on point blank shot after point blank shot in the first quarter. A young, out of shape big man named Jonathan Perky stumbled his way to 3 first quarter baskets but gave the ball back as well. A 12 point Yavneh deficit could have been 20+ and soon would be. Gandara and company continued to miss in the second quarter but the Bulldogs could throw nothing back at them. 5/15 shooting in the first half for 13 points meant that they had more turnovers (16) at halftime than points (13) or field goal attempts (15). It was that kind of night. Kenney Hamilton, who was so impressive with 25 points in the game a year ago, poured in 10 in the first half but also missed some easy ones. Something had to give as Yavneh trailed 31-15 at the half having done nothing at all and having seen Parish waste opportunities to blow the game open. To start the third quarter, they did just that. The score was 39-19 before anyone could blink and the lead ballooned to 49-23 by the end of the third quarter. More turnovers yielded to easy Parish buckets, at least when they were able to finish. The little Yavneh was able to do right even burned them. The Bulldogs made their way to the free throw line on several possessions but seldom if ever nailed both shots. The 12 misses could have helped catapult the offense had they gone in but it was not to be on this night. Erez Krengel and Sam Pulitzer struggled their way to double-digit scoring games on horrific shooting. Pulitzer scored 15 points on 6-15 shooting and grabbed 8 rebounds. Krengel netted a team-high 17 points but did it on 6/16 shooting, including 2-10 three pointers. For Parish, Hamilton and Gandara followed up their 25 and 17 from last year with 18 and 12 in this game. It should be noted that an official scoring error cost Junior Michael San Soucie and Yavneh 2 points late in the second quarter.
Yavneh (4-3) will play Van Alstyne High School Saturday night back at home. The two teams have never met.
The Kennel Report is written by Zack Pollack