The Pierre Governor basketball season begins tonight as the boys and girls will both be in action this weekend as the boys host Rapid City Stevens and Central while the girls will travel out to Rapid City.
Both Governor teams open the year ranked fifth in the preseason basketball polls as both teams are senior heavy and look to make a deep run this season. The girls finished the year winning seven of eight to close the year before falling to Jefferson in the SoDak 16. This year, the Govs want to start out fast as they face Stevens tonight and Central on Saturday. Kirk Beebout, head coach of the Governors says he expects the Rapid City schools to push the tempo…
With the season beginning, Beebout says it’s about putting in the work and time will tell what this Pierre Governor can do…
Beebout says every game matters, whether it’s the first game of the year or the last game of the year…
The Pierre boys went 9-12 last season also falling to Jefferson in SoDak 16 in double overtime. Pierre got out to a hot start last season before cooling off where this year they want to continue to ride a hot start. Brianna Kusler, head coach of the Pierre boys says both Rapid City schools will have throw a lot of different things at the Governors…
Kusler says they need to have a lot of intensity this year…
Kusler says they need to focus on themselves this weekend…
KCCR will have coverage of the boys game tonight beginning at 6:30 with tipoff at 7:00 and it will available to watch on YouTube at KCCR Sports. Jon Winkler and Blake Dean will have the call.
