BEMIDJI — For essentially any high school basketball team, the primary goal of any season is to make a deep run in the playoffs. But besides that, there are personal goals. They often include the more obvious aims, such as personal growth and improvement.
Then, there are the loftier ones: scoring milestones, scoring records, etc. Junior Rhys Sneide wants the Bemidji High School boys basketball team to make a “good run” in the section. That’s his primary personal and team goal.
However, Sneide also wants to make his own mark in another category. “The one goal I kind of started realizing was (to) lead the school in assists,” Sneide said. “I don’t know if they do that, but I feel like it would be cool to get my name on that.
” Sneide sees himself as a playmaker, facilitating and, in his words, “making plays for everybody else.” Tuesday night against Hermantown, Sneide showed off some of that playmaking ability. The Bemidji High School boys basketball team crushed Hermantown 94-57 at the BHS Gymnasium, completing its regular-season sweep of the Hawks.
“I think we’re doing a really good job getting out in transition and finding the open man early in possessions,” head coach Steve Thompson said. “It’s putting a lot of pressure on defenses right from the start of the possession, so that’s been really effective for us.” Put into the starting five, Sneide collected eight points in the victory, good for fourth-most on the team.
However, some of Sneide.
