Left Hand Valley Courier - All Local, All The Time

It was another tough week for the Niwot boys basketball team, as they dropped two more conference games, one by a razor thin margin to a top-10 team and the other by double-digits to a very beatable arch-rival. For Cougar head coach Eric Hejl, the most difficult part may have been deciding which one was harder to take.

“Greeley Central probably stings more because I feel like one little thing goes differently and we win that game,” he said after his team fell to Silver Creek by 12 points on Jan. 18. On Jan. 15, the Cougars fell 50-49 to the ninth-ranked Wildcats on a last second three-...