The 6th ranked Perry Jayette basketball team will travel to Madison County tonight for a 6:00 tip with 14th ranked Winterset.  The Jayettes defeated Winterset 52-44 in the first meeting despite going 5-19 from the foul line.  Perry sophomore outdueled young star Mariah Chriswell outscoring the young Huskey 28-9.   Perry will look to find some type of offensive rhythm tonight after a sluggish showing this past weekend scoring only 46 and 39 points in Friday and Saturday games.

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“Right now, I would say we still can play better defense.  Our communication hasn’t been the greatest and some times were not physical enough.  I also feel that we can rebound better.  Offensively is where we still have lots of room to improve.  I don’t think that we are setting hard enough screens at times.  We need to be tougher.  Our shot selection hasn’t been the greatest either and I catch myself yelling at the girls about certain shots that they are taking.”

That’s Perry Head Coach Mike Long who is currently at 496 career wins with 4 regular season games left.  If Perry can run the table against Winterset, ADM,  and Bondurant Farrar, next Friday’s showdown with Knoxville could give the veteran coach a chance to hit the milestone at home.  You can listen to tonight’s game on KDLS with Shawn Kenney beginning at 5:45 with the Perry HyVee pregame show.