 Two years ago the Crosby-Irenton Boys basketball team experienced the highs of making it to state and last season they felt the lows of finishing 9-18. Sports reporter Anthony Scott tells us how the Rangers have learned from last year's season and are ready to make another year up run a state. Injuries and a lack of experience ultimately led to a 9-18 season for the Crosby-Irenton Boys basketball team last year, but the Rangers learned a lot from their disappointing season. Well, sometimes you learn a lot by the hard way, but the good thing about it is these kids stuck with it and they put time in this summer and improved their game and now we're seeing some of that hard work pay off. And it's paying off in a big way. The Rangers are 12-2 and there's still room for a lot of improvement. I feel we're kind of fortunate to be sitting at 12-2 the way we shot the basketball, so if we start hitting on all cylinders I think we can be a decent ball club. Yeah, there's always room improvement and I mean shooting you can't shoot too good so it's always good to be working on that stuff. The Rangers only lost one senior after last year and all the experience the younger guys gained is finally paying off. Leadership is everything. Five seniors just having five seniors is a lot of leadership and that can help a lot of guys younger down even juniors helps it a lot. It's nice to have a guy like Jonathan Jacobson. He's a three-year starter coming back as an all-conference player and he's just been a steady performer for us. The section is up for grabs this year between a few of the top teams but the Rangers have some extra motivation as they are playing for their assistant coach Paul Hogue who passed away over the summer. Coach Tesdahl always brings out a jersey or a warm-up jersey with the name Hogue on the back and we place that on the bench and we just recently got a plaque put up in the hallway in the gym entrance as you come in in Paul's honor we'll always miss Paul. Reporting from Crosby-Irenton, Anthony Scott, Lakeland News and the Rangers start a four-game handstand home stand tomorrow against Detroit Lakes. If you enjoyed this segment of Lakeland News please consider making a tax-deductible contribution to Lakeland PBS.