December 2, 2022
By: Dwayne Page
After taking a week off the DCHS basketball teams will resume their schedule tonight on the road at Watertown. The girls game will tip off at 6 p.m. followed by the boys game and WJLE will have LIVE coverage of both on AM 1480/FM 101.7 and on the LIVE stream at www.wjle.com.
https://www.wjle.com/tiger-talk/
Both the Tigers and Lady Tigers have records of 4-1. Coach Joey Agee’s Tigers suffered their first loss of the season last week at Cannon County 44 to 42 before getting back in the win column against Warren County 68 to 66.
“I think we have performed very well so far. We let one get away at Cannon County. We’re still working on holding onto those leads. The last two games we have had double digit leads and gave it up but I think we learned a lot from the loss to Cannon County which helped us last Friday night against Warren County. After we were up by 10 points they came back and we went down by 5 or 6 points and then we battled back and won the game so I think we learned from the loss to Cannon County,” said Coach Agee.
The purple Tigers of Watertown have a record of 2-3.
“I don’t know exactly what players they have back from last year but I have seen some film on them. They have some pretty good scorers including a couple of kids who shoot the ball really well. They have a big kid inside who in the games I have seen didn’t necessarily score a lot but he takes up a lot of room inside. We will have to do a good job of moving the ball and keeping him off the board. They do play really hard and get after you on defense. They extend their defense up some so we will have to take care of the ball,” Coach Agee said.
After starting their season at 4-0 the Lady Tigers of Coach Brandy Alley were handed a 78-53 defeat last Friday night against Warren County.
“I think our girls played super hard. It was one of those games that hurt but there were a lot of learning moments that we can improve on. We’ll take it and move on,” said Coach Alley.
“There have been a couple of things that we messed up on in our last game but we have been able to break it down and go step by step how to fix it so its just been attacking one little thing at a time,” she continued.
The Watertown girls are 0-4.
“They have some really good players. We played against them once this summer and it did not come out well but that was my first day with the girls and everybody was just really nervous. We’ll be watching for them because they create some really great pressure. I think they returned almost everybody from last year so they will be ready to go,” said Coach Alley.
Coverage on WJLE begins with Tiger Talk at 5:45 p.m. featuring the Voice of the Tigers and Lady Tigers John Pryor interviewing Coaches Agee and Alley along with Tiger players Zack Birmingham and Conner Close and Lady Tigers Avery Agee and Tess Barton.