Boys basketball team has high expectations heading into season

by Justin Fish

After losing in overtime in the district final last year, this year’s boys basketball team has high hopes of a successful, exciting season. By means of high expectations the newly formed boy’s basketball team will take those expectations and be the best they can be.

In addition to the returning starters there are a couple of new faces on the team. The senior returnees are Zach Vanlerberg, Clark Pelham, Corey Gamble, and Reggie Waldfogel. The junior returnees are Garet Lee, Seth Weber, and Cody Krasny, while juniors Brad Beach, Tyler Wilson and sophomore Brandon Williams are newcomers to the varsity scene.

Expectations are high this year from last season for them making the district championship last year only to lose in a tough and grueling battle against arch-rivals North Adams-Jerome. “My expectations are to march in and help take us to the district championship like we did last year, help our team on offense and hopefully play some defense so we can score,” said Waldfogel. “What we expect out of this year is unknown at this point since it is so early in the season and we haven’t started a game yet, but our main goal is to improve every practice, every game and work extremely hard,” said Coach Burger.

Every team has their ups and their downs. “Some of our weaknesses are perimeter shooting, our cohesion and our guard play is untested. A couple of our strengths are we are pretty solid on the boards and we have a lot of experience from our previous players,” commented Coach Burger. “I think this year is going to be pretty good for us. I would say that our strengths are teamwork, and working hard. “I think that our only one weakness is that we dribble too much,” said Beach.

New teams have been added to the schedule, but with hard work, determination and the will to win, the boys in blue will go after the Colon Magi on Tuesday, December 9, and look to start the season with a W.