BOWLING GREEN UNIVERSITY – The Shelby Whippets will be moving onto Division-II Regional Finals after defeating Lima-Shawnee at Bowling Green State University on Thursday night. Brian Weaver of WMFD Sports spoke with Shelby’s head coach, Greg Gallaway, after Thursday night’s game to get his perspective on Lima-Shawnee and where the team has to be when they face Rocky River Lutheran West on Saturday.BRIAN WEAVER: We’re here with Greg Gallaway after a regional semifinal victory by nine points over Lima-Shawnee: Coach, you jumped out to a big lead at the end of the first quarter, you knew it was far from being over.GREG GALLAWAY: I mean, you know, if you get complacent after like a 10-0 run in the first, then you’re not really an experienced basketball team. So we knew they were going to make their runs. We got off to a quick start, but credit to our guys for challenging themselves at halftime and in the time-outs to get stops when we needed to, and, you know obviously stopping those runs against Shawnee, they’re a good basketball team. They’re young, too. They’re going to keep playing in these games here for a while. I’m just proud of our guys.BRIAN WEAVER: Beckett Berke, 41, tonight for Shawnee. He’s only a sophomore, and I’m sure you had a game plan for him. 41 points is a lot for for a player. Did you think that he was going to be that much of an impact on the game?GREG GALLAWAY: I mean, I don’t think any coach expects 41, you know, to be a number before a game. But we knew he was a really good player, and we just wanted to make him work for everything. Credit to him, he’s a really good basketball player. I thought we did a good job making some of those shots tough that he made. That’s what good players do, they find ways to get the ball and they want it in their hands in big games like this. But, you know, despite that, I’m just proud of our guys and how we rallied together on the defensive end and finished the game.BRIAN WEAVER: You have such a fine culture at Shelby for basketball, and I’m sure they’re going to have a big send-off when you come back here on Saturday. You’re going to take this victory and kind of enjoy it for the moment and get back after work tomorrow and try to game plan for Lutheran West?GREG GALLAWAY: Yeah, just a moment. Like you said, we left the locker room saying, you know, this is awesome. Embrace this. You know, not a lot of teams can say they play in an environment like this and win a regional game. But it’s a quick turnaround against a really good team. We left that locker room saying, hug your families, you know, give high fives to them. But no, we got business to take care of Saturday.
BOWLING GREEN UNIVERSITY - The Shelby Whippets will be moving onto Division-II Regional Finals after defeating Lima-Shawnee at Bowling Green State University on Thursday night. Brian Weaver of WMFD Sports spoke with Shelby's head coach, Greg Gallaway, after Thursday night's game to get his perspective on Lima-Shawnee and where the team has to be when…