Illness brings Tigers down in weekend games

ST. REGIS – The St. Regis Tigers took two defeats when they played in Darby, Friday January 10, and Arlee, Saturday January 11.

In the game against the Arlee Scarlet Warriors, St. Regis faced a final score of 26-76. According to Head Coach Taylor Nordby, the team fought hard. However, the game was made harder by a shortage of players.

Nordby explained a number of the team’s members have been sick this week and some of them were unable to play. With only seven players on the team to begin with, the loss of players hurt their game badly.

“We got outscored early and struggled on offense,” said Nordby.

Junior Gibson Lowry led the team through the game and scored a team best of 10 points. Gibson and his brother, freshman Trevor Lowry, both received the coach’s praises for a strong game.

When the Tigers went to Darby on Saturday, it was to return with a second loss. The final score of Saturday’s game was 18-64.

According to Nordby, the team was at the end of their rope for Saturday’s game. Where Friday’s game was hard fought, on Saturday the team was out of energy and decided discretion was the better part of valor. The coach said the team took the loss and pulled to get more rest.

“I wish we could’ve played harder,” said Nordby. “I hope we can recover for next week [to] be ready to go against Superior and Hot Springs.”

The game’s points were evenly split between Trevor, Gibson and senior Dallas Lewis. Nordby praised Lewis for an especially good game and said the “brothers Lowry” continued to shine.

It was a rough weekend for the boys. Nordby attributed the losses to the team being undermanned. The Tigers were also tired from a long couple of weeks where there had not been much rest available.

“It was our third away game this week and we were just exhausted,” said Nordby. “We showed up like we didn’t want to play.”

In the days before the next game, Nordby has worked with the team on offensive plays. He said the team has averaged less than 30 points per game so far and he wants to see them improve. The critical nature of the offense has spurred the team to work to improve it constantly.

“You can’t win many games without scoring the ball,” said Nordby. “That’s one thing we have been working on a ton. We’re going to continue working on it.”

St. Regis played a home game against Superior on Tuesday, January 14. Information on the outcome of the game was unavailable at the time of press. Before the game, Nordby predicted it would be a rough one and said Superior was the number one team in the district.

The Tiger’s next game will be at home against the Hot Springs Red Devils on Friday, January 17, at 7 p.m. Nordby was hopeful about the game against Hot Springs and said the Red Devils have had a rough year so far.

Nordby was looking forward to both games this week and hoped the Tigers played well.