How well do you know your Tiger trivia?
So you call yourself a Princeton Tiger basketball fan? How well do you really know your home team? Here’s a chance to find out.
The hometown sports guy has dug down deep for some nuggets and trivia on the boys in blue. Let’s see how well you do.
If you can match all 19, you truly bleed Tiger blue.
Answer 17-19, you’re greeeeat!
Get 16 you’re a Sweet 16
Get 12-15 right, you’re doing OK.
Twelve or below, well, you need to renew your subscription to the BCR.
Here we go. All 15 varsity players and the four-man coaching staff are included. Enjoy.
A: Great uncle started for the 1955 state fourth-place Tigers.
B: Uncle played for the 1989 state runner-up PHS football team.
C: Brother played for the PHS 1996 regional champions.
D: Brother played for the PHS 2009 sectional champions.
E: BCR Soccer Player of the Year.
F: Named after a Chicago Cubs second baseman.
G: Tallest baby ever born at Perry Memorial Hospital.
H: Cousin is a 7-foot all-stater.
I: Dad played hoops for Geneseo.
J: Dad played high school ball against 1975 “Mr. Indiana” Kyle Macy.
K: Grandfather played for the House of David barnstorming team.
L: Mom went to school at PHS, taught at PHS and is principal.
M: From Malden.
N: Tallest Tiger on the team.
O: Second baseman in baseball.
P: Member of 1985 state-ranked Tigers.
Q: Playoff quarterback at Stockton High School.
R: An old Sterling Golden Warrior.
S: Played at Eureka College.
Match these questions to the following players and coaches: 2 Blair Bickett; 4 Brik Wedekind; 10 Eli Van Autreve; 12 Michael Murray; 14 Reid Clary; 20 David Sailer; 22 Jalen Dressler; 24 Ben Schmidt; 30 Scott Roseberg; 32 Andy Adams; 34 Greg Musselman; 40 Ryne Vrana; 42 Scott Hult; 44 Jimmy Ferrell; 50 Brock Schmidt. Coaches: Jesse Brandt, Michael Frederichs, Paul Robinson, Eric Tinley.
Answers: A - 42; B - 10; C - 50; D - 22; E - 30; F - 40; G - 4; H - 12; I - 14; J - 34; K - 32; L - 24; M - 2; N - 44; O - 20; P - Robinson; Q - Brandt; R - Tinley; S - Fredericks.
• Welcome back to the jungle: The Princeton Tigers are the talk of the town these days. Not that long ago, Bureau Valley was taking the area hoops scene by Storm and the Hall Red Devils just a few years before that.
Members of the Red Devils state-runners-up squads from 1996 and 1997, including 1997 Class A Player of the Year Shawn Jeppson, Eric Bryant Jr., Craig Olson, Joey Reed, Ryan Anderes, Nick Sterling, Adam “the Worm” Curran and Derek Baird, will be welcomed back to the jungle Saturday for the Hall Athletic Parents Club alumni basketball game. They will encounter another gang of Red Devil alumni, including Korby Kasperski, Jason Burkiewicz, Chase Thomas, Brett Olson, Gregg Fanning, Beau Bezely, Matt Bezely, Brad Foster, Brad Pinter and Ben Micklavic.
Doors will open at 4 p.m. with tip-off at 5 p.m. The teams will be coached by former Hall coaches Eric Bryant Sr. and Bob Jiles, both of whom coached Sweet 16 teams. There will be chances sold to try to make a halfcourt shot to win $2,000. All proceeds will benefit the HAPC.
The same night, members of the 2000 Storm basketball team will mark their 10th anniversary with a team get-together. The Storm were first of three straight third-place basketball teams for coach Brad Bickett, putting the Storm program on the state map.
I’d like to be at both places at one time to see all the stars of yesteryear, and I got an idea. How about the Storm take on the Red Devils?. Now that’d be a dream matchup. We’d just have to make some oxygen masks available. Maybe the coaches, Bryant Sr. and Bickett, could put on their sneakers as well.
• Fantastic 15: The Bureau Valley District is marking the 15th year of the school’s history. Seems like yesterday when Terry Gutshall and Dave McFadden gathered students in the gym at Buda to unveil the name of the new school and nickname.
The Storm joined the Three Rivers Conference in the 1999-2000 school year and have won 37 conference titles in the past 10 years, including the JV and varsity level. That’s amazing ... 3.7 titles per year.
Kevin Hieronymus is the BCR Sports Editor. Contact him at khieronymus@bcrnews.com.
