Just ask Mark Hatcher.
The No. 3-ranked Logan High School boys’ basketball team is scheduled to open the Class AA sectional tourney on Saturday night against always tough Tolsia.
Game time is 7:30 p.m. at the Williamson Memorial Fieldhouse in West Williamson.
The winner faces Wayne on Monday night in the finals.
The Logan-Tolsia game had originally been scheduled for tonight but it was postponed because of snowy weather in southern West Virginia. Two to three inches of snow was in the forecast and school had been called off in Logan and Wayne counties.
Logan, which has won four straight sectional titles, including three in the current format with Tolsia and Wayne, comes into Saturday’s game with a 19-3 record.
Tolsia under first-year coach Mark Marcum, is 10-11 heading into the post-season.
The Rebels have played better in the second half of the season.
Tolsia opened with an 0-4 record after loses to St. Albans, Gilbert, Fairland (Ohio) and Paintsville (Ky.), then went 9-4 in a mid-season stretch.
The Rebels, though, lost three out of their last four games to close out the season. Tolsia lost at home to Matewan (48-47), fell at 3A Hurricane (75-54) and lost at Triple-A Lincoln County (78-51) before winning 76-60 over county and sectional rival Wayne on Feb. 19.
“They are going to be hard to beat,” Coach Hatcher said of Tolsia. “They match up well from a basketball standpoint, to be honest with you. You would like to be able to walk out there on the floor and say,






