The Hometown Treasure January 2011 | Page 32

January 2011 Phone: 260-463-4901 • Fax 888-439-6528 • The Hometown Treasure SPORTS SCOOP — continued from previous page “I think we have a chance to go pretty far, but the only way we can do that is if we work hard everyday in practice and continue to improve to be our best when sectionals arrive,” said Wagler. The Warriors are a highly experienced team and the leaders seem to have their head on a swivel. The senior leadership of the team also seems to be providing some guidance to another player on the team. Junior Adrian Brandenberger has been playing with more effort according to Wagler. “He has been showing in practice how well of a scorer and defender he is. I think down the stretch he will be a key for us to step in and do it in games.” With senior leadership rubbing off on the underclassmen the Warriors should be able to go a long way. The early season success seems to be giving confidence to the team which will provide major help down the road. The games coming up for the Warriors are a list of conference games which the team is ready for. “Conference games are always big. We enjoy competing against the big schools on our schedule. We are constantly trying to improve for our sectional games,” said coach Yoder. Senior Seth Wagler feels the same about the upcoming games as well. “We’re just trying to focus on our up and coming conference games because we know after the next couple of weeks we’ll be able to see who the top teams are in the conference and we hope to be at the top.” With the way the Warriors are playing right now