Cougars compete in home tourneys

 

Tyler Lowey
Times Reporter

 

The Crowther Memorial Junior High School Cougars hosted their senior guys and girls tournament over the weekend and walked away with a pair of bronzes.
Playing in their second tournament of the year, the senior girls captured the bronze medal after polishing off the Highwood High School Mustangs 60-25 Jan. 28.
In the semifinals, the Red Deer Lake Dragons clipped the Cougars 68-26. The Dragons went on to be crowned tourney champs.
“Red Deer was by far, the class of the tournament. I’m glad we played them in the semis and not our final game, so we had a game left to bounce back in,” said Cougars head coach Kyle Larson. “We took a lot from that thumping, learnt from it, the girls saw where they can get to if they put in the hard work and I think it really helped us moving forward.”
The Cougars opened the tourney by slighting the Oilfields Junior High School Drillers 38-28.
This weekend, the Cougars are off to Brooks for another tournament.
The senior boys also went home with the bronze after they crushed the Drillers 70-18 in the consolation final Jan. 28.
“Offensively we moved the ball well and worked off of each other well and half court defense was solid all weekend as well,” said Cougars head coach Kyle Schneider. “We have some improvements in transition offense and defense to become even better.”
A one-point loss (56-55) to the Brooks Junior High Hawks redirected them into the consolation final with the Drillers. The Hawks went on to win the tournament.
They opened the tourney with a 57-28 dismantling of the Trochu Valley School Jays.
Up next for the Cougars is a tournament in Calgary at West Island College.
The Junior B Boys played in a tournament in Trochu over the weekend and lost all three games.
They fell to the Jays 26-22, lost 27-21 to the Holy Cross Collegiate Hawks and were edged out by the Olds Koininia Christian School Royals 35-23.