Not only did the Nashua-Plainfield girls embark on one of the more hectic portions of its schedule last weekend, it did so against two outstanding teams.

Don’t get Al Frost wrong, the veteran Nashua-Plainfield coach likes the path his team is traveling.

The Nashua-Plainfield boys basketball team showed its coach just as much in a loss last week as they did in a 31-point victory.

Austin Flugum came right out and said it; he needed a game like Saturday.
So did the rest of his New Hampton teammates.

Turkey Valley’s girls have had close games before. Half of the eight games for the Lady Trojans this season have been decided by seven points or less. The boys, on the other hand, hadn’t had a game closer than 13 points.

At the half, New Hampton’s girls were up by 14 Friday night against Decorah and the next afternoon — as the Chickasaw girls were taking on Schaeffer Academy in Decorah’s “Border Battle” — they were, again, up by 14 at the half.

Let’s put it this way, New Hampton/Turkey Valley’s wrestlers weren’t exactly enamored last week when the Battle of Waterloo brackets came out.

With four senior starters, Kee High may have had the upper hand this time around, but not by much. 

Ryan Rausch may be less than a month into his boys basketball head coaching career, but he’s been around the sport  long enough to know that shooting 26.2 percent from the floor just isn’t going to cut it.

The first, third and fourth quarters were just fine for the New Hampton girls basketball team Tuesday night, but unfortunately, they’re called quarters for a reason; in other words, there are four of them.

Even though Turkey Valley had its best shooting percentage of the season, it was the defense Chris Sullivan talked about first after his Trojans brought home a win from Lansing Tuesday.

Nick Hemann was on to something Wednesday morning.

Sam Brown is really going to appreciate the fact that his Nashua-Plainfield players love to play the game of basketball, because after a relatively quiet stretch in the schedule, things are about to heat up for the Huskies.

For Nashua-Plainfield’s girls basketball team to turn the proverbial corner, the Huskies have to overcome one issue — the number of turnovers they commit.

The fact of the matter is that it didn’t look like Al Frost was going to get that milestone win last Thursday night.