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On Thursday, the Wolves boys basketball team traveled to Big Horn to take on the Rams in their first conference game of the season.

The boys got off to a sluggish start and trailed after the first quarter, 17-8. In the second, we played a little better offensively, but were still behind going into half, 35-20.

Big Horn hit some long threes in the third quarter and pushed their lead to 54-29 entering the fourth. The fourth was back and forth and the Rams came out on top, 68-46.

We didn’t handle their pressure well, were out-rebounded and didn’t shoot the basketball well. We knew going i...