Darre Boyle's weekly words of wisdom from the B

Our local teams went 1-1 in their opening round games today. White River won their opening roung game with a 68-58 win over Colman Egan. A win was kind of the way the
Tigers have won all season, nothing fancy, just enough to get the job done. White River appeared to want to get the game over with. I mean by that after the Tigers got the lead they did a nice job of shortening the game up by running clock. White River doesnt have the deepest bench in this tournament, so saving the legs of the starters even though they were still in the floor probally was a good idea. White River seems to have been down this road before.

Sully Buttes came up on the short end of a 68-56 verdict to the Viborg Vikings. Viborg got the lead early and withstood several runs from the Chargers. Viborg is one of the taller teams in any of the three state tournaments. Their front line is 6'4", 6'6" and 6'9". That proved advantageous as the Vikings had a big rebounding advantage. The other big stat was from the freethrow line, Viborg had 30 free throw attempts compared to 14 for Sully Buttes. A very telling stat because it shows how hard SB had to play defense in the entire second half just to stay close.

So Sully Buttes plays Colman Egan @ 1:00 Friday in the consolation semi-finals and White River plays Viborg in the first semifinal game tomorrow night @ 7:00. Two questions come to mind, first how do the Chargers bounce back from a emotional loss in todays opening round? Second, how will Viborg respond after an emotional win? Will the way White River closed out their win help them Friday night? OK thats three questions but whos really counting? Other random thoughts from the past couple of weeks.

It was 12:40 this afternoon when I saw the first state tournament fan with mohawk, at 4:40 I saw the second. Its just something you have to do to be a fan right?

LT said all along that he wanted nothing more than to play with Brett Farve, since LT has signed with the Jets, does that mean that Farve isnt coming back?

Is it bad karma when the Twins are moving into a ball park that is even more hitter friendly than the metrodome and their closer blows his arm out?

If the Twins sign Joe Mauer, can they win enough games to keep enough people in the seats of Target Field to pay for this big contract or will Mauer be trade bait in a couple of seasons?

See, just because the highschool basketball season is coming to an end doesnt mean there is nothing to worry about. See you on the radio Friday at 12:45. Hope you enjoy our coverage.