Thursday night was the first St. Ed's basketball game with the football players since losing in the first round of the football playoffs last week. The team previously played two games in the Eunice jamboree. This because of lack of playing time together led to a lack of cohesiveness and a lot of bad passes in the first game of the regular season. The visiting Trojan team rather had more time to gel and play together as a team and won by a score of 52-42.
Chris Rider is coaching in his first year as head coach for Sacred Heart. He said "we wanted to come out against our rival school and play the best we could, and I think our boys showed a good game."
"We started off in a 1-2-2 defense, and it worked real well for us," he added. "Defense is gonna be our big strength this year, and offense we just gonna have to work at some of the plays being in a new system."
The Trojans were listening to the mandolin rain as three point shots came raining down on the night. Garrett Ortego scored two three pointers. His first came to put his team up 10-4, and he added his second before the first half ended. Keaton Tate knocked down another trey from the side of the key en route to his team leading 16 points. The final trey came from Jacques Fontenot to go up 25-14. Seth Shipp added 10 points as the second Trojan with double-digit points behind Fontenot's 16.
As for the coach's thoughts after the game, "So I think it was a good night so far. Starting the off 1-0, I couldn't ask for more."
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