The Tekamah-Herman Boys Basketball Team lost 77-39 at Humphrey/Lindsay Holy Family in the first round of the East Husker Conference Tournament on Saturday.
The Bulldogs jumped out to a 22-8 lead at the end of the first quarter before outscoring the Tigers 16-6 in the 2nd quarter to take a 38-14 lead into the locker room.
Humphrey/Lindsay Holy Family outscored Tekamah-Herman 21-14 in the 3rd quarter to go up 59-28 at the end of three.
The Bulldogs won the 4th quarter 18-11.
Good effort by the Tigers, but Humphrey/Lindsay Holy Family simply proved to be too much.
Tekamah-Herman (1-17) takes on Clarkson/Leigh (4-11) in the second game of a consolation round at Twin River Friday night.
The Patriots lost 78-43 to Howells-Dodge in the first round of the Tournament at Howells on Saturday.
Of course these two teams met back on January 5th with the Tigers picking up their first win of the season and snapping their 64-game losing streak against Clarkson/Leigh.
Tekamah-Herman beat the Patriots once this season, and I'm sure their confidence is high that they can do it again.
The Tigers definitely can do it, and this game should be a close barn burner like the first matchup between the two teams was.
I look for Tekamah-Herman to come out inspired, motivated, and ready to go.
The Tigers have a realistic shot at winning this one and one of their other 3 remaining regular season contests, in my opinion.
To get to 3 wins this year would be a big step in the right direction for this program all things considered.
Tekamah-Herman already got the monkey off their back earlier this month so now the Tigers can just go out there and play loose and relaxed and even better than they did before.
Tekamah-Herman has to come out ready to take care of the basketball and make good, strong, crisp passes.
The Tigers have to have good court awareness and be heady when attacking the basket.
The fundamental things like boxing out, getting good post position, rebounding, and knocking down free throws and layups are all going to be important for Tekamah-Herman no doubt.
The Tigers have to also get a hand in the shooter's face and contest shots.
Tekamah-Herman has to challenge shots and not allow wide open looks at the basket if at all possible.
I think the Tigers have a good shot to win this, but it won't be easy.
It's never easy beating the same team twice in the same season so Tekamah-Herman is going to have to earn things if they are to win.
It can definitely be done though all the Tigers have to do is put their minds to it.
The Tekamah-Herman Girls lost 74-44 at Humphrey/Lindsay Holy Family in the first round of the East Husker Conference Tournament Friday night.
The Bulldogs went up 25-7 at the end of one before winning the 2nd quarter 20-13 to take a 45-20 lead into the locker room.
Humphrey/Lindsay Holy Family outscored the Tigers 15-8 in the 3rd quarter to extend their lead to 60-28 at the end of three.
Tekamah-Herman won the 4th quarter 16-14.
Good strong effort for the Tigers after the 1st quarter, but the slow start to the game proved to be the difference for Tekamah-Herman.
The Tigers (4-15) battle Madison (2-17) in the second game of consolation play at Pender Thursday night.
The Dragons lost 51-15 at Clarkson/Leigh in the first round of the Tournament Friday night.
These two teams met on January 11th in Madison with the Dragons winning 61-59.
I look for Tekamah-Herman to play well and avenge that loss come Thursday night.
I think the game will be close and respectable, but look for the Tigers to pull things out.
Tekamah-Herman's defense has to be sound....the Tigers can't let Madison go off on them like the Dragons did the first time around.
Tekamah-Herman has to come out upset about what happened against Madison the first time around and on Friday night.
The Tigers should be upset that they didn't win either game and must do something about it.
Tekamah-Herman has a challenging week next week so they could really use a win heading into the Omaha Mercy game next Monday.
We are getting down to the very end....the very nitty gritty.
The Tigers have to play at as high a level as possible on Thursday and next week to create momentum for Sub-Districts.
This is a must win for Tekamah-Herman...the Tigers simply cannot afford to lose this game.
They shouldn't either and quite honestly shouldn't of the first time these two teams met.
I'm sure the Dragons have Tekamah-Herman's attention now so the Tigers can just come out and play good basketball at a high level.
This is a low pressure game so I look for Tekamah-Herman to come out and turn in a good, solid performance.
This is the type of game that if the Tigers win it big can lead to a domino effect next week.
If Tekamah-Herman can beat Madison and Omaha Mercy in their next two games who knows what it could do for Tekamah-Herman against North Bend Central next Tuesday and Omaha Roncalli to round out the regular season next Thursday.
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