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Indians hire Schniederjan to be the new boy’s basketball coach
The job search is over as Nocona High School found the man to be the next boys basketball coach.
Athletic director/football coach Brad Keck said they had hired Colby Schniederjan on Wednesday to be the new boy’s basketball coach, replacing Bret Botard who left for Quinlan Ford at the end of May.
The job is Schniederjan’s first head coaching job. He is coming from College Station High School where he has been an assistant coach the past three years. Before that he assisted at Franklin High School.
He graduated from Dalhart High School in 2006 and went on to attend Wayland Baptist University, where he studied biology and played basketball.
“There were just a lot of appealing things about Colby that we really liked,” Keck said. “I think he is a really great fit for us.”
His youthful energy, his experience at both big and small schools and him serving under JD Sullivan, the current boy’s basketball coach at College Station High School whom Keck has always admired, made Schniederjan the best candidate for Keck, even with no head coaching experience.
After signing his contract Schniederjan had to hop on a plane for Boston, where he will help coach at the Boston Celtics youth camp for the next few weeks.
He also will direct the youth camp in Flower Mound as he was promoted in April to run Boston Celtics’ player Marcus Smart’s personal camp there.
“It’s been a whirlwind of a week for me,” Schniederjan said.
Schniederjan is doing his homework from 1,800 miles away through film work and knows the challenge ahead of him.
“I know I’m up against a state champion and some stiff competition,” Schniederjan said. “Holliday is good. Bowie is obviously going to be good. City View is going to have a team that will be competitive and Childress who just moved into our district as well. I’m going to have my work cut out for me.”
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Prairie Valley
The Prairie Valley Bulldogs had a good final non-district warm-up on Friday at home against Ector.
The Eagles beat the Bulldogs 69-63 in a game where Prairie Valley was trying to play catch up all the way through.
The Bulldogs were coming off a tough tournament at Electra the previous week to try and knock the holiday rust off. Prairie Valley was familiar with Ector, having played the team to start its season back in early November and was hoping to compete better than it did in that first game.
The Eagles came out firing, splashing five 3-pointers, including several deep ones, to go out to a 21-8 lead in the first quarter. Even with the Bulldogs changing out of their preferred zone defense, the 3-pointers continued a bit and opened things up inside the arc.
Thankfully, Prairie Valley’s offense came alive in the second quarter, scoring 18 points and cutting the lead down to 38-26 at halftime.
The third quarter was more of the same, though a different player for Ector started to get hot from beyond the arc. Even as the Bulldogs were able to keep up their offensive production from the second quarter, they could not break through and cut the game to single-digits, trailing 54-42 heading into the final period.
The fourth quarter saw Prairie Valley break through to cut it the lead to single-digits, but just not close enough. Every time the Bulldogs were on the cusp of making it a one or two basket game, the Eagles would make a shot to keep that distance.
In the end, the final score was the closest Prairie Valley got as Ector won 69-63.
Nocona
The Nocona Indians bounced back with a competitive district win at Petrolia on Friday.
The Indians won 60-53 against the Pirates in a game where the middle quarters took drastic swings in momentum.
Nocona was coming off its first district loss against Windthorst as the team sat a 1-1 district record.
Petrolia came into the game at 0-1, but had a bit more time to prepare for the game.
The first quarter was competitive, but the Indians were able to get to the free throw line at will and led 16-11.
Then Nocona’s pressure defense turned up its intensity in the second quarter.
“Our pressure seemed to disrupt them and we were able to get out in transition after forcing turnovers,” Coach Brody Wilson said.
Nocona scored 25 points and led 41-25 at halftime.
Unfortunately, that intensity did not keep up at the start of the third quarter for Nocona.
The Indians took their foot off the gas a little bit which allowed Petrolia’s offense to get back into the game and make up some of the deficit.
The Pirates outscored Nocona 15-7 and trailed only 48-40 heading into the final period.
Thankfully, the Indians bounced back and competed a bit better in the fourth quarter. Nocona was able to keep offensive pace to keep Petrolia at a bit of a distance instead of making it a one score game.
The Indians held on to win 60-53.
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