Vikings play important tune-up games at home tournament that ends early
The weather just wouldn’t cooperate during the Viking Invitational senior boy’s basketball tournament at North Battleford Comprehensive High School this past weekend.
Half of the teams competing had to leave early to ensure they got home safely, so no playoff round took place and no medals were awarded.
That doesn’t mean the weekend was a waste, as the Vikings got in a very meaningful tune-up game against Yorkton Regional High School, where they unfortunately fell just short.
“We’ve seen everybody else and we’ve played everybody else. So for us, we needed to see Yorkton, knowing that they were, in our opinion before the tournament, probably ranked second in rural 5A, and us thinking we were first,” Vikings head coach Jamie Sommerfeld said. “It was a good experience to kind of get kicked in the teeth a little bit, to show that physicality. It was a good wake-up call for us.”