A hard fought season has finally come to an end for the Drumheller Valley Secondary School (DVSS) Senior High Boys Basketball team.
The team competed at South Central zones hosted at Brooks Composite High School on Friday, March 9 and Saturday, March 10.
They lost their first match but then won the next two ultimately placing fifth and winning the consolation side.
“I thought they actually played quite well as a whole all weekend,” said co-coach Will Belliveau. “The team we lost to ended up making it to the finals so they are a very strong team and the second game was against the other weaker team where our guys performed really well and then the third team we played was actually very evenly matched and the guys actually came out ahead so I thought overall they played really well throughout the weekend.”
Both coaches are pleased with the end result but Belliveau is both excited and nervous for the upcoming season.
“We are losing a good group of guys that we’ve had for a couple years so it will be an interesting year next year,” said Belliveau.
Overall, Belliveau felt it was a good season full of highs and lows. Highlights included performing well against ranked 1A schools despite the smaller school population and lowlights of the season involved mental ruts and ‘growing pains’.
“This year we really struggled to play a full game of basketball,” explained the coach. “We would have the teams beat and then we let them off the hook for like ten minutes and then they would crawl back into the game so that was one our lowlights and something that we struggled with all year.”
A spring league is set to begin in May and will run until June. This league is open to high school students in DVSS, St. Anthony’s, and Morrin Schools. Registration will be open within the next two weeks.
“All the kids sign up that want to play, we divide them in to teams, we makeup schedules and then it’s just kind of a chance for the ones who maybe didn’t make the team or just want to continue to play Basketball in some kind of a structure to play through the next couple of months,” said Belliveau.
