8th Grade Girls Basketball in Valley City

By: Jacob Miedema

     December 2^nd was a great night for the Valley City Hi-liners girls Basketball. They played the Kindred Vikings, from Kindred North Dakota.  Both teams put in great effort at this ball game.  The final score for the evening was Hi-liners 32 and Vikings 21.  There was a decent turn out for this game.  Both Basketball coaches seemed that they did a good job of coaching the girls.  The Valley City coach seemed maybe a little uptight and expected that Valley City should win.  The Kindred coach was more laid back and instructed the girls how to play the game better, but seemed that he wanted the girls to win but wanted them to enjoy basketball.  For this age group coaches should be more encouraging and not make the team feel that they need to be really competitive and I felt the Viking coach did that.  Again the High-liners had a good evening of basketball.