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By Kirk Hanna
Times sports writer
With a packed house for a prime-time game in the Encampment gym, the home town Tigers beat the Shoshoni Wranglers 44-23.
Head coach Clint Bromley wasn’t real impressed with his offensive production, but his was satisfied with the defensive shutdown.
“Holding a high school boys basketball team to 23 points is pretty good,” Bromley said.
Danial Barkhurst and Brandon Russell came together to help shut down the Wrangler’s attacks.
Offensively, Marion Marchetti netted 24 points for the Tigers and Chad McKinney pitched in eight.
Bromley tried to run the floor tonight, but with a lot of new comers on the team, they just weren’t meshing well.
“(The boys) were pretty nervousness,” Bromley said. “I think they’ve actually been nervous for about two days.”
It appeared to wear off in the second half.
As the first half came to an end, the Tigers led 17-10, but in the fourth quarter alone Encampment scored 17 points.
“I think they started to loosen up a little bit,” he said. “A couple of them have never been in a starting position before, and they were pretty nervous, and we expected it as well. But they came out and played better in the second half.”
The main thing that Bromley recognized was that his team has “a lot of newness.”
New offensive sets, new players in different positions.
“The newness is what it made it a longer night for us,” he said.
The tigers will now get some rest and tip off at 9 a.m. Saturday against Wright.