Vikings try to defend home turf
The North Battleford Comprehensive High School Vikings senior boys basketball team will try to defend their home gym as they host a two day basketball tournament over the weekend.
“We haven’t done well the last few years,” Vikings head coach Jamie Summerfeld said. “We won Hoopla in 2012 and we had a very heavy component of Grade 12’s. So since that time we have been rebuilding that program with young kids and community basketball.”
With rebuilding complete, Summerfeld and his Vikings have one plan. “We are going to win our tournament. That is our goal. We’re going to see some very stiff competition.”
The stiff competition Summerfeld is referring to is the St. Mary’s Marauders out of Prince Albert. The Marauders are ranked number one in the rural 5A division going in, but according to him that just adds to the Vikings fire.