The Estevan Comprehensive School Elecs and Weyburn Eagles senior boys teams gave spectators a bit of a preview Friday of the McLeod Series.
And although the game went the Elecs’ way in a 92-81 victory, assistant coach Dustin Wilson said Weyburn were missing a couple of key players for the weekend.
“Obviously we won it so it was a positive thing,” said Wilson. “They were missing two of their senior guys so it’ll be different the next time we play them. We’re not taking that win for granted. We’ve got to go with a different mindset for the next game, which I guess will be closer to the McLeod series.”
Elecs forward Jack McGeough led the way offensively with 39 points in the game, with John Andres adding 28.
After that thrilling Friday game, the Elecs went on to lost 91-75 to Moose Jaw Vanier and 96-87 to Swift Current in a pair of games Saturday.
“A couple of tough losses and we hung in both games,” Wilson said. “But some of the stuff we’ve been working on in both games started to show up in the last two… Once again, some positives to take from it but it’s still kind of frustrating to take two losses to finish it out.”
The shooting went well on the weekend for some part, which was a good sign for Wilson.
“That kind of stuff, if we can keep doing that and using our big guys on the inside, I think we’ve got a good chance as we head on this season on making a few upsets and having success in the rest of the tournaments.”
The Elecs have a tournament in Swift Current this weekend and another in Yorkton the following weekend.
The junior boys in their event held simultaneously at the ECS gym won silver after an exciting pair of games. They beat Oxbow 63-49 Thursday, defeated Carlyle 69-48 on Friday and then lost to Moose Jaw Central in the final Saturday.
