The Green Dragons are tied for the division lead with Danville with two games to play and have moved all the way up to the No. Since the beginning of January, Lewisburg has allowed more than 50 points just once - in the aforementioned 68-57 win over the Ironmen on Friday night - and allowed 43.9 points per game since the new year. In the first seven games of the season, Lewisburg allowed 58.7 points per game. Helped by the new division schedule - despite a 2-5 record to open the month - as we sit on the last day of the month, Lewisburg has won nine of its last 10 games after an overtime win over Division III leader Southern Columbia on Monday, dropping just a two-point decision in the division to Danville, which it avenged on Friday night. "I asked them what they thought, and we went back to some of the stuff we were doing last year, some of the sets we ran offensively," Vaji said. The longtime coach even asked his players what they thought could work better. Cam, Henry and Jack were familiar with the way we were playing defense last year, so the other kids were buying in," Vaji said. "We went back to some of the old defensive philosophies that we did last year before we played Jersey Shore. Vaji thought he had enough experience in the system - Michaels, guards Henry Harrison and Devin Bodden along with Jack Blough inside all played in last year's championship campaign - along with his bench players Charlie Landis, Dylan Dershem, Noah Pawling and Neyshawn Mabry to provide added depth. Lewisburg didn't practice for six days and then had six or so practices before the Jersey Shore game to go back to the defensive system that worked so well during last season's championship run.
2 make-up with Jersey Shore.Īnd that afforded the Green Dragons some time off, and then enough practice time to pull off a bit of a revamp. John Neumann, Lewisburg was off until a Jan.
Starting the season with two wins in their first three games, Vaji thought he and his coaching staff were on the right track, but that changed quickly with a four-game losing streak in December.
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