February 18, 2020
By: Dwayne Page
The DeKalb County Tigers will meet the Macon County Tigers in the first round of the District 8AA basketball tournament tonight (Tuesday) at Watertown High School.
Tip off is at 7:30 p.m.
The Tigers are seeded 7th with a record of 6-21. 3-11 and Macon County, the 6th seed, is 8-20, 3-11.
During the regular season the DeKalb County Tigers won on January 17 at Lafayette 85 to 81 but lost on February 11 by a score of 58 to 52 in Smithville.
“These are two evenly matched teams. They have a good forward in Braydee Brooks. They try to get him the ball a lot to take shots and they have a couple of other shooters spaced around him including another pretty good post player Lake Reid and they are playing a lot better. Earlier in the season they had some injuries and guys who were sick so its going to be a tough game for sure but if we can speed the game up a little bit and get them into foul trouble I like our chances because I don’t think they are very deep,” said DCHS Tiger Coach John Sanders.
WJLE will have LIVE coverage of the game with the Voice of the Tigers John Pryor. Listen for Tiger Talk prior to the game at 7:15 p.m. with John Pryor interviewing Coach Sanders and Tiger player Kylan Rhea.
The Lady Tigers, seeded 4th, will meet Cannon County Wednesday night at 7:30 p.m. at Watertown. Cannon County defeated Smith County Monday night in the tournament 60-31.