By Avery Degerstrom
This past weekend the boy’s varsity basketball team made a trip to the Minnesota State Tournament. The boys placed 5th overall and were the consolation champions. The jags lost their first game to Russell-Tyler-Ruthton with a score of 70-87. The next game was a dominating 22 point win against Mahnomen/Waubun, with an end score of 88-66. The final game played by our boys was for the consolation championship. They were able to scrape out the win 56-49. The first game was played on March 22nd at the University of Minnesota Williams Arena. The jags were able to stay neck and neck with the RTR knights until late into the second half when RTR gained a 13 point lead at 6 minutes to go. At the half it was RTR up 46-34. In the start of the 2nd half the knight’s lead only grew getting to 18 points before a 10-0 run from the jags. This got the jags within 7 but again RTR’s lead grew. Hinckley got within 7 points three times in the 2nd half but fell short and couldn’t get any closer before RTR pulled away again. The jags were lead by Travis Visser’s double-double of 18 points and 12 rebounds. Lavone Krochel although only playing 19 minutes contributed 15 points, 7 rebounds, 5 assists, and 2 steals. Kolten Furey hit four from behind the arc to add to the outstanding three-point percentage by the jags this game, they shot 47.6%. Once placed in the consolation bracket the Hinckley-Finlayson Jaguars took on the Mahnomen/Waubun Thunderbirds at Concordia University. The Thunderbirds took the first lead of the game and held onto that until 12 minutes to go in the first half. The Jags tied them 3 times in the 6 minutes of Thunderbird fame. It was downhill for Mahnomen/Waubun with the Jaguars gaining their first lead of the game which grew rapidly and into double digits with just under 7 to play. This lead was sustained with the Jags going 8-16 from the three-point line in the 1st half. The lead for the Jaguars only continued to grow throughout the second half. The Jags outrebounded the Thunderbirds by 10 and had 4 of their 5 starters scoring in double digits. Anderson Prater had a game high of 16 and Trevor Johnson trailed him closely with 15. Kolten Furey put up 13 and Travis Visser and Reuben Gibbs both had 12. It was a complete team victory. At the Gangelhoff Center of Concordia University on Saturday March 24th the Jaguars competed for 5th place and the consolation championship. They faced Rushford-Peterson home of the Trojans. The Trojans took the first lead of the game which expanded into a 10-4 lead only 5 minutes into the game. The Jags were able to inch their way back up with help from the 47.4% that the Jags shot from the field in the 1st half. They were even able to enter halftime up 2. That was only the start for the Jags as their momentum carried over into the 2nd half where they shot 61.1%. This benefitted the Jags immensely due to the fact that as they got hot the Trojans cooled off only shooting 16.7% from behind the arc in the second half. It was nobody’s game the entire 2nd half though, leads were exchanged the whole way until the Jags went up 45-41 with four minutes left of the game and were able to keep their lead. Travis Visser earned his 2000 points in his 20 that he put up this game. All the hard work put in by each and everyone of the boys on the basketball team left the Jags to take home 5th place, consolation champions, and they got to end their wonderful season on a win.
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Mary Hertenstein
3/30/2018 03:10:52 pm
Rock on Avery! Great piece of writing!!
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Michael Hertenstein
3/30/2018 04:41:24 pm
Great job Avery! I believe you have a future in sports journalism!
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