Boys Basketball Takes Home First Win Of Season

Pete Ruden 

Sports Editor 

Chris Henderson protects the hoop against an Indianola player.
Photo credit Pete Ruden. 

 The boys basketball team took care of business in their first game, as they handily beat Indianola on the road on Friday, December 4 by a score of 55-38.

            Senior Chris Henderson led the Rams with a double-double, in which he scored 14 points, shooting 62.5 percent from the field, along with 10 rebounds.

            “I felt I did a pretty good job and I contributed well to the team and the win,” Henderson said.

            Along with Henderson’s performance, senior Keegan Van Kooten put up some solid stats, dropping in 14 points, with seven rebounds and two assists. Junior Jackson Cole also performed well, putting up 10 points, grabbing seven rebounds on the glass and dishing out two assists.

            For any team, a 17 point road win on opening night is a good performance. The same can be said for the Rams, as they began their season on a high note.

            “We had some good possessions and we had some bad ones,” Henderson said. “But overall, we made the plays that we needed and we executed and we won the game.”

            A lot of coaches say that a team’s biggest improvement is from the first game to the second game. Even though, they had a big night on Friday, the Rams still have ways in which they can improve.

            “First, we need to have better spacing and ewe need to cut our turnovers,” Henderson said. “We had a lot of turnovers in the second half. We need to have better clock management coming into the fourth quarter, because we turned the ball over when we shouldn’t have.”

            The Rams will look to make those improvements on Tuesday, December 7, as they take on Urbandale at 7:30 PM.