Ryan Rausch may be less than a month into his boys basketball head coaching career, but he’s been around the sport long enough to know that shooting 26.2 percent from the floor just isn’t going to cut it.
The first, third and fourth quarters were just fine for the New Hampton girls basketball team Tuesday night, but unfortunately, they’re called quarters for a reason; in other words, there are four of them.
Even though Turkey Valley had its best shooting percentage of the season, it was the defense Chris Sullivan talked about first after his Trojans brought home a win from Lansing Tuesday.
Sam Brown is really going to appreciate the fact that his Nashua-Plainfield players love to play the game of basketball, because after a relatively quiet stretch in the schedule, things are about to heat up for the Huskies.
For Nashua-Plainfield’s girls basketball team to turn the proverbial corner, the Huskies have to overcome one issue — the number of turnovers they commit.
New Hampton senior Tristan Sweitzer admits that he’s always gotten just as much of a kick as making a pretty pass as hitting a key 3-point shot, but what the Chickasaws have shown early in the season is that Sweitzer isn’t the only one loves gift-
Despite two Turkey Valley girls putting up a career-high scoring night, the Lady Trojans started Friday’s doubleheader against MFL Mar-Mac with a 57-40 loss, their first conference loss of the season.
Both New Hampton basketball coaches got what they wanted Thursday night, and it just wasn’t the wins the Chickasaws came home with from Waterloo Columbus, either.
Maddi Moorman talked about transitioning on Wednesday, the afternoon after the Chickasaw girls came home from Charles City with a 60-40 win over the Comets.
New Hampton senior Austin Flugum had figuratively “broken the ankles” of a North Tama defender to free himself for an open 3-pointer, which he drained during the fourth quarter of Tuesday night’s game.
