Basketball Update
A look at how the season has started for the basketball teams.
The Lions men and women basketball seasons started this past week and record wise they both have three games in the books.
For the ladies after the first week of the season they are sitting at 2-1 with two forfeit wins against NIAC opponent Leech Lake Tribal College, they're lone loss is to Dakota State University. Chambre Droste leads the Lady Lions as she is averaging 10 points a game. Chambre Droste, Madison Fisher and Brynn Crockett all are at 3 rebounds per game. Kennedy Nofziger leads the Lions in assists with 2 a game, La'Anna Golden leads the Lions in steals with 3.
The men's season hasn't started out like they hoped but the Lions are a very prolific offense as through three games they average just under 88 points per game. The Lions have four players averaging over 10 ppg, Jamal Williams leads the Lions with 25.3 ppg Jeremy Blanchette is averaging 20.7 ppg. Logan Klitzke is averaging 6.7 rebounds per game. Jamal Williams averages 4 assists per game followed closely by Logan Klitzke with 3. Jamal Williams also averages 3.7 steals per game, which is a team high as well.
Both the basketball teams will head north of the border this weekend. They will face off against the Red River College Rebels on both Friday and Saturday. The Friday games will take place at 6pm for the ladies and 8pm for the men. Saturday the game times will be at noon for the ladies and 2 pm for the men.
The links for the live stream will be posted on our social media pages later today.
Tanner Twigg SID