Record season comes to end in Substate final
By Zakary Kriener
It was a heck of a run for the TigerHawk boys’ basketball team this year, but NFV came up just short of its goal of making it to State with a tough loss to the No. 2-ranked Hudson Pirates on Saturday night in Dike.
“I thought we met the challenge for the most part. It's easy to look at the score and see that we lost by 30 and say that that game wasn't competitive. That's not the case in my opinion. We only had 7 turnovers, held them to under 50 percent shooting, had 13 offensive rebounds, and according to our defensive metrics, we contested 80 percent of Hudson's shots when in half-court defense, that's a higher "rate of contest" for us than in some games that we won by double digits this year,” said coach Matt Krambeer on his team’s 70-33 loss. “We simply lost the game in transition and second shot opportunities. Once we got down by double digits, I thought we tried to get it all back at once, and quick shot the ball and that played more into Hudson's hand.”