2/9/18: @Rush City

Pine City Pioneer, Jesse Logan

Pine City 70, Rush City 29

The Dragons suffered through a bit of a listless start in this one but eventually turned things on and pulled away against the Tigers.

“After the slow start, I thought our defense was suffocating,” said Allen. “We had some young guys that we wanted to get some varsity experience to and I thought they responded well. Tanner Wicktor, Koleman Lind, Christian Fromm, and Caleb Fromm all came in and gave some great varsity minutes in big stretches. Because of the way we do things in our program, we feel we can plug in any player into a situation and they can be successful. The scaffolding of concepts throughout the program lets us purposefully do that.”

The high-point man was Nick Hansmann with 16, a positive sign as the junior continues to work himself back into the flow after a midseason shoulder injury. Seth Logan had 12 with three blocks, Clay Logan had 11 and Rademacher 10. Pine City paid attention to the details and did the little things right.

“Before the game,” said Allen. “We were talking a little about our circle inbound play.  We know it looks silly, but there are some rules and intricacies with it. We cleaned up some things before the game, and Koleman Lind executed it perfectly getting an easy bucket underneath. It was great to see him take what we talked about in pregame and put it into a game situation.”

Lind continued to do things well the following day and had his best-ever varsity game in another Dragons victory.

Varsity: W (70-29)
JV: W (67-45)
C-Squad: W (50-38)