11/05/2011 - It was fitting that Nathan Obrigewitsch drain a three pointer to put the host Keyano Huskies over the century mark last night in a 102-59 victory against the visiting Briercrest Clippers in a Alberta Colleges Athletic Conference game at the Syncrude Sports & Wellness Centre.

Obrigewitsch, a 6-foot-4 rookie from hometown Fort McMurray, had just scored his first ACAC basket a few minutes prior.

Despite the high score it was a slow start for the 3-2 Huskies as they held a 20-14 first quarter lead. The first quarter started with two quick inside hoops by Huskies  6-foot-9 Jesse Denscombe who had missed the last two games with an injury.

Huskies displayed an offense with a muscle and a defence with a hustle in the second period outscoring the winless Clippers 30-10 for a 50-24 halftime advantage.

Zach Waldher led the Huskies attack with 23 points and seven assists. Demaine Nelson had 17 points and eight rebounds in only 19 minutes on the floor.

Head coach Mike Connolly was able to get all 12 players into the game with 11 hitting the score sheet.

Huskies host the Medicine Hat Rattlers at 8 p.m. today at Westwood Community High School.

Nathan Obrigewitsch drain a three pointer to put the host Keyano Huskies over the century mark last night

Photo by Erwin Kuhr

By Trevor Howlett

11/04/2011 - The Keyano Huskies basketball teams are playing back-to-back games again this weekend, but with a slightly different twist: this time, they will take on two different opponents with two different playing styles.

The women's team are up first, playing 6 p.m. tonight and Saturday, first against Briercrest Clippers and Saturday against the Medicine Hat Rattlers. The team's approach right now is just to worry about one game at a time.

"It's a difficult thing to try to prepare for. Right now we're just concentrating on the Briercrest game because that's the game we can win if we come out and we play well," said women's coach Dwayne Vigilance.

"All our concentration right now is for that game. We'll have adjustments obviously for Saturday, a different team, a much better team. Medicine Hat is a lot like NAIT, but right now we'll worry about the first game."

Luckily for the Huskies, rookie Nicholle McKenzie will be able to play in some capacity this weekend after suffering a knee injury in last Friday's game against NAIT.

McKenzie currently leads the ACAC in points-per-game with 19 and blocks-per-game with 2.33. Arielle Clemens will not be available to play however, and is out for the season with a knee injury.

Although tonight's game will be at the Syncrude Sport and Wellness Centre, the second game was moved to the Westwood High School gym.

"We have the advantage that we don't have to travel five hours up that street so for us it's still an advantage," said Vigilance.

Vanessa Wideman, a second-year guard said the team just needs to play their own game in order to win this weekend.

"We need to play inside again and go inside and we need to bring it on defense. Lately our defense has been backing off a lot but we just need to bring some pressure to try and force turnovers and make it harder to shoot," said Wideman.

Coming off a pair of losses last weekend against NAIT, the men's team is looking for a pair of home wins when they take on Briercrest and Medicine Hat this weekend.

"Briercrest brings a team that can shoot very well; they have two decent posts that we're going to deal with," said men's coach Mike Connolly. "Medicine Hat brings some more challenges; they're a little more athletic, a little quicker, they do score the ball from all over the place, but if our defense plays it well then we should have success."

Connolly said playing two different style teams is a bit of a challenge, but one that his team is prepared to deal with.

"You have to make choices, but I think what you have to do is prepare for the generalities of what each team will do and go from there," said Connolly.

"If you prepare for one team, then you might miss stuff against the second team. What we've done is prepare for the things that might hurt us that both teams do and we're working on covering those things and exploiting those things."

Point guard Zach Alger-Waldher said his team feels like they have something to prove this weekend.

"Briercrest is very young … they're not as big as us, so we're definitely going to be having the advantage inside," he said.

"The next night against Medicine Hat — they're ranked nationally — kind of feel a bit disrespected because we feel we should be ranked. We competed with Lakeland, lost by five. Yeah, we screwed up last weekend against NAIT, but we swept Concordia who were in the pre-season rankings and everything. So we feel a bit disrespected and I'm hungry to play them."

The men's team plays Briercrest at 8 p.m tonight and Medicine Hat College Saturday at 8 p.m

11/03/2100 - Keyano Huskies Sports Outreach, supported by ConocoPhillips, visited Good Shepherd School this morning to talk and play some fun hoops with students in Grade 3-6. The message is H is Huskies and H is for Heroes....Everyday Heroes. Below are Huskies women basketball players Anita Balogh, Jelayne Dubielew and men's stars Reece Gavin and Nathan Obrigewitsch signing autographs which is always a big hit.

10/30/2011 - Keyano College Huskies men’s basketball team had a high scoring match-up with NAIT Ooks yesterday in Edmonton losing 105-100 in an Alberta Colleges Athletic Conference match-up.

Huskies took their biggest lead of the game 18-14 with 2:51 remaining in the first quarter off a Zach Alger-Waldher layup.

The Ooks came back to take a 14 point advantage 53-39 with 1:35 remaining in the first half.

Hot shooting by Huskies’ Kevin Dia and point guard play by Alger-Waldher, brought the Huskies within five 83-78 at the end of three quarters.

Huskies regained the lead 88-87 off of an Jesse Denscombe field goal two-and-a-half minutes into the final period.

A Huskies Louis Barham free throw tied the game at 97-97  with only 1:09 remaining but an Ooks steal and Huskies mental lapse secured the win for the home team.

Dia lead the Huskies with 23 points on six-for-14 shooting from behind the three-point line. Alger-Waldher had 16 points including four threes.

“After the way we played Friday (a 84-68 loss to NAIT) we all made a commitment to play better defence today,” said Alger-Waldher  “It was embarrassing the way we played Friday.

“Today we rotated the ball better and had a good look at the shots.”

Of the fact that he had a game high nine assists to go along with his point production Alger-Waldher  said: “I’s my job to get my teammates going. Kevin Dia was showing confidence in his game and you have to feed them.  Santos Huran (15 points) was also hot for a while, so you get them the ball.”

Huskies return to the hardwood hosting the Briercrest Clippers Nov 4 and the Medicine Hat Rattlers Nov-5 at the Syncrude Sport & Wellness Centre.

Kevin Dia led the Huskies with 23 points in a 105-100 loss yesterday to the host NAIT Ooks