Sports

CHICO – Whatever happened to Saint Jo’s boys basketball team between early December and Saturday night should be bottled and have folks looking for a distributor.

In initial meetings with Bryson this year, the Panthers struggled with the Cowboys before pulling out a 10-point win. In a recent bi-district matchup, Saint Jo never looked out of shorts and won by 32.

In the first meeting with Graford, the Jackrabbits pulled out a 55-point win.

BRYSON – You can blame officiating. You can blame poor defense.

Sooner or later, any sport depends on did you outscore the other team? While things can happen to affect that in the shortterm, the players on the court dictate what happens in the final analysis.

In Feb. 23’s bi-district showdown between visiting Saint Jo and the host Cowboys, the Panthers led from start to finish, using almost too aggressive defense to key a second quarter pull away and post a 62-30 win.

Saint Jo goes to 18-7 with Bryson ending its campaign at 11-12.

If we could just find some happy middle ground.

We go from below zero to temps in the 80s in five days then back into the 40s with rain. Yet we can’t figure out why everyone’s sick.

It was just great being able to see ball hit bat once again as HS baseball fired up last week in Alvord. I still haven’t seen any softball this weekend for various reasons but it’s a long season.

You look at the headline and you’re thinking ‘Brian’s finally lost his mind’. There is no proper way to watch a game.

The Bryson Cowboys entered Saturday's tiebreaker with Perrin hoping to go into the playoffs with momentum. After splitting games during the season, the teams needed one more meeting to settle a tie for second place in the district. The Cowboys struggled from the start in a 79-57 loss at home to the Pirates.

BRYSON – Missing a four-year senior starter for any reason can put you in the dumps real quick.

POOLVILLE – There’s never a problem in a loss as long as you know you left everything on the court.