Versailles Jace Watren brings up the ball because the Tigers went up in opposition to Bradford to begin their morning.
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By Drew Terhall
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VERSAILLES — There’s no time just like the summer time to begin offseason actions. Versailles Exempted Village Faculties hosted a varsity boys basketball shootout on June 8 with 16 groups competing in 4 video games all through the day.
Every sport had 16-minute half’s with a operating clock. Groups had the possibility to see completely different competitors from across the space to kick off their summer time coaching.
For Tri-Village, this was simply the begin to their summer time. Head Coach Josh Sagester stated this system could have a busy two and a half weeks of attending basketball camps on the College of Dayton, Wright State, Findlay and Wittenberg.
After dropping an amazing senior class, Sagester stated the crew performed nicely with some new faces and a few new roles for gamers.
“I believed our youngsters performed nicely in our first outing after coming off a 21-6 marketing campaign with seven seniors. I used to be pleased with our effort,” Sagester stated.
Versailles additionally took this chance to see what their younger guys are able to on the varsity stage. Head Coach Travis Swank stated the summer time is the possibility to see if guys are prepared for the varsity stage and to work on some issues that’s new to the crew or issues that the crew didn’t run a variety of final season.
The Tigers confirmed a great place to begin in opposition to their competitors. Swank stated the summer time just isn’t going to be good. They only wish to see the crew proceed to get higher and to get more durable.
“Quite a lot of our guys are both freshmen from final 12 months that performed on the freshmen or JV stage. It’s a giant leap from every stage as you go alongside. We had been proud of what we noticed right here at present,” Swank stated. “We’re not glad, however there’s a variety of time nonetheless to get higher. That’s actually what we’re targeted on in the summertime.”
Even this early in the summertime, going up in opposition to nice competitors is all the time useful. Bradford is dropping three seniors and could have some new gamers come into the fold for them.
Railroaders Coach Alex Swabb stated it was nice for the crew to go up in opposition to these groups that had been giving it their all in opposition to them.
“We performed some superb groups at present. They gave a variety of nice effort. It’s good to have the ability to compete in opposition to that, particularly this early in the summertime. To have the ability to play in opposition to groups providing you with that a lot could be very useful,” Swabb stated.
It did take some groups time to shake off some rust. For Mississinawa Valley, it took the primary two video games to get again into the move of a sport scenario.
Head Coach Cole Hamilton stated the crew had a tough begin, however began to enhance because the day went on.
“We began off the morning type of tough a little bit bit. I didn’t know the place we had been going to begin out at. However as these final two video games got here on, I felt like we improved so much scoring smart. There’s a pair issues that we have to work on protection, like each crew does,” Hamilton stated.
One of many primary issues Hamilton needed the crew to enhance on was communication. He stated it’s one of the crucial essential elements of basketball, particularly when it comes time for event play down the street.
Contact Every day Advocate sports activities editor Drew Terhall at [email protected]
Originally posted 2023-06-08 19:40:47.