Playing a holiday tournament gives basketball teams a good opportunity to get a look a myriad of competition and that’s exactly what it provided for Central Coosa’s boys basketball team in the Childersburg Christmas Tournament last week. In addition, the Cougars also showed some fight as they picked up two narrow victories.

“It’s a good experience because you want the guys to go against different teams because we see our area teams down the road,” Coosa coach Richard Bell said. “Shelby County was a really good 3-point shooting team and they had a lot of guards. Pleasant Grove was really big and athletic, and Winterboro was a bunch of football players so they were really physical. It’s just something to put in the back of your mind for experience later on.”

Lizi Arbogast is the sports editor at Tallapoosa Publishers, Inc.