Spartans improve during home tourney

Damian Anderson

Times Jr. Reporter

 

This past weekend, Strathmore High School held a tournament for the boys Basketball team. 

It was a slow start for the boys, whose first game was against the Crescent Heights Vikings. The Strathmore Spartans played well as a team, and progressively improved in this game, but it was no use against the Viking’s superior ball control.  

When asked about what needed to be improved for future games, Spartan’s coach Christopher Hall said, “managing the last two minutes of the game.”  

That was exactly what the Spartan boys did in their game against the West Central Rebels. It was close throughout the entire game, neither team being more than two points away from each other at the end of each period. In the last few minutes of the game, the Spartans pulled ahead of their 42-42 tie and won the game 49-42.  

However, the winning ended when the Drumheller Dynos came in and took the Spartans by surprise, ending in a loss and placing the Spartans sixth in the tourney. Although the placement was not what they had hoped for, the Spartans made noticeable improvements in ball control and aggression as the tournament progressed.