Hayden boys basketball team set for big matchup
Saturday, December 17, 2011
2011-12 Tigers boys basketball schedule
- Dec. 8 to 10: Cowboy Shootout in Meeker
- Dec. 8: Hayden 43, Crested Butte 42
- Dec. 9: Meeker 66, Hayden 35
- Dec. 16: Hayden 59, North Park 41
- Dec. 17: Little Snake River 66, Hayden 53
- Jan. 6: Meeker 51, Hayden 42
- Jan. 10: Hayden 53, Vail Mountain 41
- Jan. 13: West Grand 68, Hayden 55
- Jan. 14: Hayden 70, North Park 45
- Jan. 20: Hayden 64, De Beque 36
- Jan. 21: Hayden 59, Vail Christian 50
- Jan. 27: Hayden 59, Soroco 40
- Jan. 28: Hayden 74, Rangely 60
- Jan. 31: Hayden 88, Vail Christian 72
- Feb. 3: Plateau Valley 79, Hayden 66
- Feb. 4: Hayden 75, Paonia 67
- Feb. 10: Hayden 69, Soroco 53
- Feb. 11: Hayden 61, West Grand 55
- Feb. 17: Hayden wins through forfeit again Vail Mountain
- Feb. 21: Hayden 73, Soroco 53
- Feb. 24: District Tournament: West Grand 58, Hayden 55
- Feb. 25: District Tournament: Hayden 73, Paonia 57
- March 2 and 3: at Regional Tournament
Steamboat Springs — The Hayden High School boys basketball team beat North Park, 59-41, on Friday night to even its record at 2-2. But today is when the Tigers will find out what they’re made of. The team had the chance to watch Little Snake River play at the Cowboy Shootout in Meeker last week, and if back-to-back state championships in Wyoming weren’t enough to impress, the Rattlers performance there was.
The teams play at 5:30 p.m. in Hayden.
“They only lost one important player off their team from last year, and they looked really good,” Hayden coach Mike Luppes said. “We’ll have to play our best game of the year to be with them at the end.”
On Friday the Tigers kept North Park at arm’s length throughout the game. Mark Doolin scored 16 while Jorge Valdez came just one point shy of a double-double, pulling down 13 boards to go with nine points. Dan Engle also got into double digits for Hayden, scoring 10.
Little Snake River “will be a big challenge for us,” Luppes said. “It will be good to see how we step up to that.”
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