(Elk Horn) Boyer Valley travels to Exira-EHK Tuesday night for a girl/boy basketball doubleheader on KSOM.
Exira-EHK is coming off of their first loss of the year. They fell to Class 2A #4 Treynor by a score of 57-43 on Saturday. Coach Tom Petersen says, “We have to be able to run half court sets. We really, really struggled once we got across half court. There was just a lot of non-motion going around with our kids. We played a heck of a basketball team in Treynor, but I was just kind of disappointed by our offensive execution big time. Defensively I don’t think we did too bad. The 2nd half we did outstanding. 1st half was just about trying to recognize some of the players and we weren’t doing that. It’s good for us, I really do think so. Hopefully we’ll be ready to go Tuesday.”
After tonight the Spartans will have two weeks before they play again. Coach Petersen identifies some areas to work on during the holiday break. “Number one is communication. We just struggle to communicate with each other and when you do that on a basketball floor you’re going to struggle. That’s been our biggest achilles heel. We need to get in better basketball shape. We aren’t there yet.”
Pregame coverage starts at around 5:50 on 96.5 FM KSOM.
Exira-EHK coach Tom Petersen:
