NRHEG season ends in playoffs
Coach Isaiah Lundberg was hoping for better from his NRHEG boys’ basketball team, but the Panthers’ season came to a close Thursday, March 18 with a tough 93-46 setback to Mapleton at Maple River.
“It’s not exactly how I hoped this game would turn out,” said Lundberg.
The coach said to give credit to the Eagles.
“Maple River came out in the first half and it seemed they couldn’t miss a three-pointer,” said Lundberg. “We started out really well and had a lead in the beginning, and I liked how we were playing on both ends of the court. As the 1st half continued, they shot the lights out from 3 and ended up the 1st half, making 9 of them. We didn't do a very good job keeping them off the offensive rebounds either, as they had 14 points off second-chance attempts. That’s not a very good recipe for hoping to keep the game close. I thought we did some good things on offense in the first half.”
In the 2nd half, the Panthers continued to play hard and kept on going even with the score getting more lopsided as the half went on.
“I did like how Daxter Lee and Porter Peterson were attacking on offense in the 2nd half and continued to try and make some plays and score for us,” said Lundberg. “In the end, our defense and rebounding weren’t quite what it needed to be against a very good and big team in a playoff game.”
NRHEG soring: Kordell Schlaak 4, Porter Peterson 12, Daxter Lee 24, Benjamin Schoenrock 1, Jack Olson 2, Dylan Loken 3.
“I want to thank my four seniors for what they did all through the years. We will miss them,” said Lundberg. (Dylan Loken, Kordell Schlaak, Ashton Johnson, and Dakota Neste.)
The Panthers finished the 2021 campaign with an overall record of 5-13.