12/3/24: @Ogilvie

Varsity: W (104-16)

JV: W

Highlights: https://www.hudl.com/video/2/421951/675033a93738464375308e13

Dragon Boys Basketball starts season off with big wins!

• By Heidi Burger Pine City Pioneer
 
• Dec 11, 2024

The Dragon Boys Varsity team traveled to Ogilvie on Tuesday, December 3 for their first game of the season. It was a great game to start the season with all the eligible varsity players able to see equal court time. 

Coach Kyle Allen has been talking the last year or so about rebuilding,  about going back to the foundation of the program. Last season was a reset season, a chance for the boys players to take a step back and focus on the foundation, to make mistakes not often seen in a varsity game, and to correct those mistakes for the future of the program. Those steps backwards, as Coach Allen said, were made so this season’s Dragons could develop players to play at the varsity level. 

Pine City 104, Ogilvie 16

“The standards were changed, in the hope that we would see success and more consistency,” said Allen. The Ogilvie game was a good starting point. The boys came out ready to play, and they played through their errors, staying up. “I really liked how the boys stayed with the principles in this game.”  

The majority of the team was able to see playing time and even see double-digits for playing time which was a great game for experience. Coach Allen also commented on how “everyone really played well in terms of the execution of what we were asking them to do.” Sophomore Grant Larson had a great game, senior Austin Wiener led the team with 12 rebounds and senior Eli Fromm showed his tenacity on both sides of the court.