Tigers take to the courts

With the football season done with for

the year, the St. Regis Tigers are now playing out on the

basketball courts. They’ll play their first game of the season this

week against Lincoln on Saturday, Dec. 4.

Jump shots and layups were the focus of

the drills at practice last week as Coach Dan Park and assistant

coach Jess Tuchscherer worked with the 15 players who are out for

the sport. Park said that they have three seniors coming back this

year, with one junior and a couple of sophomores.

“I think we’re more athletic than we’ve

been in the last couple of years,” Park said.

With having only a few wins over the

last couple of years, Park said that the number needs to come

up.

“We’d like to win them all, but we

can’t do that. Yet, we do need to be winning more and I think

that’s very realistic this year. It all depends on how well we come

together once we start playing,” Park said.

Playing more as a team, Park said, is

something that they’re going to be working on. He said that they

also have to be patient with the ball.

“We’ve talked about letting the game

come to you and not forcing it. We need to be patient. We’ll be

doing pretty well and the crowd gets excited and we rush and that’s

when we lose,” Park said.

Park said that they have to play their

game, the game that they know they know how to play. He said that

they have to play patiently on offense and hustle hard on defense,

whether it is man-to-man or zone.

“When we can do that, we can play close

with teams,” Park said.

Park said that putting together a full

game is also going to be important, rather than shining in one

quarter out of the four.

“We have to play a full game. We can’t

just put it together in the fourth,” Park said.

The team will pay the first game of the

season away against Lincoln on Dec. 4, this Saturday. Park said

that it has been a relatively short amount of time to get ready

especially with the Thanksgiving holiday. Park is hopeful though

that the game will show them where they stand compared to others.

He said that hopefully they’ll be in the winner’s circle a bit more

this season.

The Tigers will play their first game

at home on Dec. 7 against Clark Fork.