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Golden Eagles Win First Ever District Championship

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March 5, 2010

The visiting North Technical Golden Eagles overcome the host Whitfield Warriors 58 to 50 in the Girls Basketball District Finals.

The North County Tech girls basketball team overcame a wobbly start to win its first ever district championship over host Whitfield 58-50 on Friday. Junior guard Yelena Rosado poured in 33 points and the No. 2 seed Golden Eagles, who are just in their fifth year of existence improve to 17-5. "This is big for our school. We just go hard," North County Tech Coach George Merritt said. "Tonight, just had a better team. They're not as good as we are. They could have won the game because (Whitfield coach Melanie Marcy) made some great adjustments with what she had to work with."
          North Tech led 39-36 to start the fourth quarter but a quick 7-2 run, keyed by a three-point play by senior forward Alarra Gill Binder gave the Golden Eagles some cushion. Whitfield's standout freshman Stephanie Anderson pulled her team back with four unanswered points. But North Tech was proficient enough from the free throw line, making 5-of-8 down the stretch. "At first we were a little sluggish but we picked it up. We came into the locker room and talked about we needed to do and came out and did it," Rosado said. "Once one player scored it broke the seal on the basket and we all flowed."
          Yelena Rosado 2.pngThe No. 1 seeded Warriors, who started two freshmen and a sophomore finished the year 13-7. "I just think there were a lot of crucial moments and whoever made the last move was going to take it," Whitfield coach Melanie Marcy said. "We still had a shot until the end. It was just some big, athletic play with three or four minutes left that turned the tide their way." With Anderson leading the way, Whitfield led 9-1 at the end of the first quarter. "It seemed like there was an invisible person up there knocking the shot out," Merritt said. "Once we got into a rhythm things kind of fell into our favor." 
          In the second is when Rosado heated up. Trailing 13-5 with 5:26 to play, Rosado scored eight unanswered points, including two 3-pointers to give the Golden Eagles their first lead of the game. "She is a phenomenal player. I told her before the game, a true player wins games at the right time," Merritt said. "She has had games where she has scored two buckets. I told her I needed her tonight." Tyler Iuten's layup at the buzzer put Whitfield up 23-21 but Rosado had scored 17 of her team's 20 points in the period. Rosado started the third with pretty fake pass and layup and followed an empty Warrior possession with a nice baseline bucket to make it 27-23.
          After Whitfield tied the game at 32 on a drive by Tyler Ituen, Brandi Riddle nailed a 3-pointer and Angela Randall's field goal put the Golden Eagles up 37-32 with 1:35 left in the quarter. With an 18-13 run, North County Tech went in to the 4th quarter up 39-36. Randall finished with10 points and 14 rebounds.
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Students Participate in Achievement Days 2010 Event

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On March 1st-2nd North Technical TREND members, Health Science students, and Culinary Arts students reached out to students with special needs in the 5th annual Achievement Days 2010 Event.  In cooperation with the Special School District Character Plus Program, over eighty North Tech students served in a variety of roles helping to make this a day to remember for special needs students in both our cooperating schools as well as our SSD buildings. The theme of the Achievement Days event was to “Pave the Way for 4-H”.  4-H is a youth organization with the stated mission of "engaging youth to reach their fullest potential while advancing the field of youth development."  The four focus areas of 4-H are head, heart, hands, and health.  This is embodied by the 4-H Pledge which states "I Pledge my Head to clearer thinking, my Heart to greater loyalty, my Hands to larger service, and my Health to better living, for my club, community, my country, and my world." (4-H.org, 2009).  Some of the roles carried out by our North Tech students at this event include exercise routines, pillow making, scrap-booking, puppet making, a food toss, a blood pressure measuring table, a food education table, and many other hands-on activities.  It was a wonderful opportunity for North Technical students to develop leadership qualities and to enrich their lives by helping special needs children. Students found that reaching out to others can be a rewarding, gratifying, and enjoyable experience.

 
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