Brian Combs couldn’t hold off.

The head coach of the Orangeburg Krazy Katz - a women’s semi-pro basketball team - wasn’t slated to start putting together a men’s team until next year. So much for that plan. Combs officially announced this week that the Krazy Katz will also field a men’s semi-pro team for this year.

"The mens’ team is going to be as strong as any men’s team that I’ve coached in my 15 years," he said. "Knowing my competition out there, I will make a bold statement, ‘We are going to be hard to beat.’"

Combs said his mens’ team will play a 28-game schedule against teams mostly based out of Georgia. There are also two teams in North Carolina, and two more teams in South Carolina.

"There is a large talent pool in the Carolinas," Combs said. "But, because they didn’t go to a marquee school they couldn’t get their names out there."

Both the Krazy Katz teams are scheduled to scrimmage Saturday at the Orangeburg City Gym. The men are scheduled to face Shaw Air Force Base at 2 p.m., and while a time was not finalized for the women’s scrimmage, Combs said that would like take place before the men’s contest.

T&D Sports Editor Brian Linder can be contacted via e-mail at blinder@timesanddemocrat.com or by phone at 803-533-5598. Check out his blog, Welcome to Linderland, at www.thetandd.com.

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