Dynos (back; l-r) Sam Brown, Zach Flater, Travis Molzan, Devon Law, Mitchell Russell, Garth Giffin, Dustin Lo, coach Jeff Messom, Adam Shymanski, Josh Thomson, Wyatt Page, Mackenzie Leitz, and Emmanuel Gumasing, with (front; l-r) Matt Herman, Talon Marshall, Justin Molzan and Mackenzie Johnson. Missing is Rhett Duggan.
The DVSS Senior Dynos won bronze in their zone last Saturday night with a convincing defeat over Black Diamonds Oilfields.
The Dynos hosted the 2A South Central Zones on March 14 and 15, where eight of the top teams in the area battled for a shot at provincials.
The Dynos were upset in league play, but came out with focus to take on Three Hills in their first game last Friday night. They managed to hold off Three Hills 83-76.
This put them on the championship side of the draw to play Hugh Sutherland School from Carstairs. They were strong and ended up beating the Dynos 102-77.
Despite this, the team regained it’s composure to play Oilfields school from Black Diamond. The Dynos’ swarming press and hot three point shooting dominated the Oilfields as they won 112-81. Matt Herman set a DVSS points record with 56 in this game.
This ended their season.
“Even though we were disappointed that we did not make it to provincials, we believe we had a very successful season a 23 and 8 with a bronze at zones,” said coach Jeff Messom.
It was an interesting season for the Dynos with a young and long bench, and negligible size, they took on some tough teams with their run and gun style.
“At the beginning of the year we would have been very happy placing third in zones, but the guys took to the new style of basketball, and we had a lot of success that our expectations raised as the year went on,” said Messom. “However, we knew with the fast-paced style that we would win a lot of games because of it, but we would also lose games, it just happened to be at the end of the year.”
Messom is losing four seniors who will be graduating this year, however this leaves a lot of talent on the roster.
“I think there was a lot of growth for many players over the year even with our Grade 12s who showed leadership and were a big part of what we were able to do throughout the season. I am looking forward to next year as there is a lot of potential that has yet to be reached with this team,” said Messom.
