The Daytona Homes senior girls basketball game in Saskatoon last weekend was a good showcase for a pair of Estevan Comprehensive School Elecs basketball players.
Tatiana Dutka, who will be going to Medicine Hat College in the fall, and Morgan Fichter were a pair of senior players who took the Elecs all the way to the Hoopla 4A girls final a month ago and were rewarded with recognition to play in the game.
“I played pretty good and it was lots of fun,” said Fichter, playing in what is likely her last competitive game of hoops, apart from the club basketball in the spring and summer. “It was a great opportunity to play in one last high school game and with some of the great athletes in the province being on my team.”
Playing on the same team once again with Dutka was another good thing about going to the game.
“It was great to have one of my teammates from ECS there with me,” Fichter said. “It was great that we could both represent ECS there.”
The south beat the north for her last game, and Fichter said it was great that her last game could be a win.
Now, Fichter will turn her attention to her last high school track and field season. Fichter won a provincial gold medal last year in the senior girls’ triple jump and was only 0.35 metres away from a provincial record. She also placed 10th in the long jump at the provincial level.
She’s going to be changing her colours from the Elecs to the University of Toronto Varsity Blues, as she’ll be going there in the fall.
“They just invited me to go there,” Fichter said. “I went there and I really liked it there.”
The school has been known to not only produce great track athletes but is also one of the best schools in Canada.
“I wanted to go there and I’m really excited to go there in the fall. Hopefully I improve a lot, because my main focus in high school was basketball. Switching over to (focusing on) track (full time) will be different for me.”
