December 13, 2022
By: Dwayne Page
After being on the road last week, the DCHS basketball teams will spend this week at home hosting White County tonight (Tuesday) and Cannon County Friday night.
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The Lady Tigers are coming off a 57 to 55 buzzer beating win at Stone Memorial in the district opener Friday night while the Tigers lost to the Panthers (8-1, 1-0) 81 to 47.
Both the Tigers and Lady Tigers are now 6-2 overall.
Although the loss is a setback, Tiger Coach Joey Agee said his team didn’t play up to its potential in the game with Stone Memorial, which is considered among the top teams in the Region this year.
“We took some really bad shots and had some bad possessions on offense and I think that affected us on the defensive end too but that is something we are really working on. We don’t need to let a previous play affect what we do on the other end of the floor. I was also not pleased with the effort once we got down. It looked like we gave up a little bit so I put that second group in and they brought some energy,” said Coach Agee.
Tonight, the Tigers will host the White County Warriors (5-2, 0-1), another team considered among the Region’s best.
“Its always good to be home. We probably shoot the ball a little better in our own gym but they (White County) will come in here hungry too. They are not going to want to go 0-2 in the district starting off after getting beaten by Upperman in overtime the other night so they are going to be upset as well as we will be upset going into tonight’s game. It should be a good game and I hope everybody comes out and packs the gym for the kids. I hope we play well,” said Coach Agee.
The Lady Tigers would go to 2-0 in the district with a win tonight over White County (7-1, 1-0) after beating Stone Memorial (6-5, 0-1) last week.
“It was just great to watch the kids play as hard as they possibly could and bring the energy, they brought from start to finish. It was a fun game to win over a school I am very familiar with,” said Lady Tiger Coach Alley.
As for White County, “they are always going to be a tough, physical team and they will bring a lot of fans, but we are at home and we will have our crowd supporting and backing us up too so it’s going to be who wants the fight more,” said Coach Alley.
WJLE’s coverage begins with Tiger Talk at 5:45 p.m. featuring comments from Coaches Joey Agee and Brandy Alley with Tiger and Lady Tiger players Robert Wheeler, Seth Fuson, Dare Collins, and Camryn Branin.
Play by play action on WJLE starts at 6 p.m. with the Voice of the Tigers and Lady Tigers John Pryor. Catch the boys and girls games LIVE on WJLE AM 1480/FM 101.7 and on the LIVE stream at www.wjle.com