MAAA Tournament Boys Semifinals Preview

(Park Hills) It’s all chalk for the boys semifinals of the MAAA conference tournament. Friday’s games feature the top seed Central Rebels playing four seed Valle Catholic followed by two seed Ste. Genevieve taking on three seed Potosi. You can listen to the games on J98 The Boot.

Central (18-2) doubled up Farmington in the quarterfinals and already beat Valle Catholic by 23 points back in December. Rebels coach Brad Gross tells us what his team needs to if they want to get to the championship game…

Valle Catholic (14-6) earned a three point victory over North County in the quarterfinals on Monday. It’ll be a tall task to take down the 5th ranked team in the state in class four, but Warriors coach Tyler Search is hoping tonight is their night…

Ste. Genevieve (16-4) beat Kingston 69-56 on Tuesday. The Dragons won last year’s conference tournament for the first time in at least 16 years and, if they want to make it two in a row, they’ll have to beat Potosi for the second time in as many weeks. Coach Rob Coleman says his team his team will work on the little things in their preparation…

Ste. Gen beat Potosi by two points in their last meeting in a game that came down to the final shot. Potosi (17-4) won a low-scoring slugfest over West County on Tuesday by a score of 40-28. It wasn’t the prettiest performance, however, coach Jackson Conaway says a recipe of Tuesday’s game and their last effort against Ste. Genevieve could make them difficult to beat…

Coverage of the MAAA boys semifinals begins at 6:45 Friday evening on J98 and MyMoInfo.com.