There were three seniors on the Twin Cedars Boys Basketball Squad this season. Kade Dunkin scored the most points of the three at 10.9 points per game, while Brett Sedlock had 45 assists and grabbed 100 rebounds while Jace Nichols had one of the top three point shooting percentages on the team at 41-percent. Coach Blake McWilliams tells KNIA/KRLS Sports they all meant a lot to the program.
McWilliams:
“Kade Dunkin has been playing a lot for me, and Jace Nichols played a bigger role, and Bret Sedlock always put in the effort and made the right play.”
The three seniors led the Sabers to a 7-10 record this season.
It was a stop and start kind of season for the Twin Cedars Boys Basketball Squad in 2020/2021. The Sabers twice had to pause activities due to positive COVID-19 tests and never got into a rhythm during the season. One takeaway that Coach Blake McWilliams notes is the final game of the season when his team came back from 15 days between games.
McWilliams:
“I thought the kids were happy they got to come back and play. They could have been very disappointed and hung their heads, and their big takeaway was they got to play that last game and lilley knew that was it.”
Coming off a sweep of Tri-County Thursday night, Twin Cedars repeated that effort Friday against Orient-Macksburg on the road. The Sabers girls won 52-45 in overtime and the boys came out on top 46-32.
In the first half of the double header, Twin Cedars’ Brooke Roby went off for 29 points and 10 rebounds. Cheyanne Bruns added another 13, including three shots from beyond the arc. This was the Sabers’ fifth game in seven days, and they went 5-0 in them to improve to 9-6. Head Coach Trent Verwers praised his girls for keeping their composure after a subpar defensive performance that saw their wire to wire lead vanish in the closing moments of regulation.
Most high school basketball teams want to play up tempo, let’s face it, it is more fun and points hopefully come in large amounts. The Twin Cedars Boys Basketball Squad wants to go quickly, but Coach Blake McWilliams tells KRLS Sports finding the line between turning it up and running the offense is something that his team is still trying to figure out.
McWilliams:
“Trying to talk about pushing it but if nothing is there taking it out and running the offense and not settling for the 3 pointer but getting a lay up of some other easier shot especially when things aren’t going as well as they need to.”