Somehow, some way, by the time a basketball season ends, a team is allotted 21 total games before the postseason. If you’re in a conference like the Heart of Iowa, you don’t get much room to schedule non-conference opponents. That’s the “dilemma” facing PCM year in and year out. On the boys’ side, Coach Fred Lorensen and his guys have had the same three out-of-conference games for the last few years: Pella, Knoxville, and Pella Christian. These are three formidable foes, the latter of which they often see in the postseason, and Coach Fred Lorensen says it’s a benefit to his team to have that kind of “consistency” each year. The Mustangs’ boys play their first game of the season on December 2 against South Hamilton.

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