It Was a Huge Night for Valley's Basketball Program. Indeed, So Huge That the Results [a Whopping 2 Paragraphs Devoted To Each Team] Even Got Into the Paper, Which Is Unusual These days. The Paper Couldn't Get the Score Right On One Of the Games, But That's Business As Usual These Days, Too. The unbeaten and No. 2-Ranked Valley Girls' Team Sailed To a 101-35 Victory. It Was the 14th Consecutive Victory for the Tigers. In the Boys' Game, Valley Was a 59-16 Winner. I Wonder When the Last Time Was [If Ever] That a Valley Girls' Team Scored More Than 100 Points In a Game. I Also Wonder When the Last Time Was [If Ever] That a Tiger Boys' Team Has Held An Opponent To 16 Points, and When the Last Time Was [If Ever] That Ottumwa Has Scored Just 16 Points In a Game. Tough Night for the Bulldogs, and a Long Bus Ride Home. I've Also Got To Wonder If There's Any Sense for Ottumwa Teams To Continue Playing Schools Like Valley In the Central Iowa Metro League In the Future

Valley's girls stand at attention during the playing of the National Anthem. That was the turning point on a big Tuesday night for the Tigers' program. And, oh, by the way, the Valley vocal quartet [pictured below] that sang the anthem did a No. 1-ranked job, too.