Sunday, December 07, 2008

Fight to the finish


By Jack Hittinger, Daily Guide

LEBANON - The raw numbers of the final score wouldn’t indicate it, but the Waynesville Tigers were lucky to get out of Lebanon High School’s Boswell Auditorium with a 64-53 win in Thursday night’s Central Bank Invitational Basketball Tournament.

Jefferson City Helias hung with the Tigers the entire game thanks to some shoddy defense and costly turnovers on the Waynesville side.

Tiger head coach Tom Bildner certainly didn’t like what he saw on defense.
“We weren’t following our own defensive rules tonight,” he said. “We did not apply the proper defensive help or pressure.

“I know that they understand what to do because they execute it in practice, but for some reason live games are different.”

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