The Lady Eagles basketball team had their first official game of the season tonight at home against the Mountain Ridge mountain lions.
Led by Coach Rusty Rogers, the varsity girls played a close game and ended with a score of 46-40, losing to the mountain lions by only six points.
“We fought until the end, and we tried our best,” said Jackie Nesemann, sophomore. “We’ll get them next time.”
In the fourth quarter of the game, the girls came back from a 14 point deficit. Rogers believes that if the girls play with that kind of urgency throughout the game, they will keep improving.
“We’ve had a game like this already,” Rogers said. “We’re just learning a new system, and I think this is a huge step for us. Even though we lost, it’s progress.”
On the other hand, both the JV and Freshman teams won their games, JV with a final score of 50-14, and Freshman with an end score of 28-27.
The JV girls dominated from the start, beginning their first quarter with a score of 18-3, and they won by a wide margin. Key players throughout the game were the Morris twins, Kelly and Kerry, and the Carlos twins, Hayley and Hanna.
“You’ve just gotta believe in yourself and put the ball in the basket,” said sophomores Jenny Walker and Melia Cobb.
The freshman team, however, began their game a little shaky, and went into the third quarter trailing 13-18.
The girls then came back, and tied the score at 24-24 in the fourth quarter. They went into four minutes of overtime, where Bridgette Buttrum made a basket with 4 seconds left, and won the game for her team.
“I’m super psyched,” Buttrum said. “The best part of the game was making the winning shot.
