JV: W (53-38)
Pine City Pioneer, Jesse Logan
Meeting some unique challenges this past week, the Pine City boys basketball team earned three more wins to move their overall record to 19-6 with one game remaining. The Dragons won two games without head coach Kyle Allen (family reasons), earning impressive road wins on back-to-back days despite playing twice in a 20-hour period. Pine City began the week with an important Section 7AA win over rival Mora.
Pine City 76, Two Harbors 34
Playing again the following day at 3:30 p.m., some around the team worried that this contest would be sloppy. The opposite was true as the Dragons came out with great intensity and focus and played some of their best basketball of the last month, building a 49-19 lead at the half and winning easily. Everything was dropping for Lunceford early with all 12 of his points coming in the first half. Clay Logan finished with 18, and Rademacher with 14 to go along with a team-high five boards.
“The big question was what kind of energy would we have,” said coach Rademacher, “but the boys came out on fire. The defense set the tone and that led to lots of transition baskets. I was proud of the boys’ efforts and the energy it took to get it done in that game.”
Pine City has one game remaining on its schedule, at Ogilvie on Friday, March 3. The team is hoping they will have their regular coach back for the finale.
“Everyone really missed coach Kyle Allen,” coach Rademacher added. “It just wasn’t the same up there without him and we’re all hoping he gets back soon. We were glad we could get a couple more wins.”
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