It was Sunday evening and Apalachee High School varsity boys basketball coach Kevin Morris was preparing for the busy week which awaited his team.
The Wildcats, which opened the season with an easy win against Class A Commerce, have had several days since playing that contest and held four days of practice last week, taking only Thanksgiving day off.
Now Morris was set for three games in the following week which will no doubt provide a test for his squad.
A road game was scheduled for Tuesday at Rockdale County with a trip to Loganville Friday and a home game Saturday against Salem. All three are against Region 8-AAAA crossover opponents.
“Rockdale and Salem are very athletic,” Morris said Sunday night. “Loganville is very fundamentally sound and plays very hard. This will be three very big tests.”
Apalachee will be without the services of point guard DeVaugh Kilgore, who suffered a hip flexer during the first layup during warmups against Commerce.
“At this point we are playing point guard by committee,” Morris said. “Hopefully, we can get through it until he heals up.”
During four days of practice last week, the Apalachee coach said he had to instill a little motivation for his team during the second half of Wednesday’s session.
Following the day off for Thanksgiving, practice was better on Friday, the coach said.
The Wildcats are preparing at this point for their subregion games against Clarke Central, Cedar Shoals, Winder-Barrow, Habersham Central and Madison County. Apalachee plays each of these teams twice. Crossover games will be played against Loganville, Monroe Area, Salem, Rockdale County and Heritage.
The crossover games will count only in case of tie-breaker scenarios.
Morris said his team will play Loganville and Monroe Area twice since the schools are located so close to each other but only one game of the series will count for crossover purposes.
