Girls basketball kicks off the season with a stellar victory against the SOCES Knights

The girls basketball team played with a starting five and brutally slaughtered the Knights with a score of 46-24 on Monday, Nov. 13.

By Isabel Valles, Athletics Editor • Nov 17, 2023

THE MIRROR | DAIMLER KOCH AND NICOLE TOVAR

Senior Cara Dechathong is part of the girls basketball team, which received a change in leadership when Coach Sara Marroquin at the end of last year.

Highlights |

The Lady Wolves started off the first quarter with a 12-3 lead.
Halftime ended with the Wolves in a large lead with a score of 29-12.
The third quarter is where the team started to lose steam, only scoring 11 points the whole quarter.
Although the team began to tucker out, they finished out the fourth quarter strong with six points against the Knights’ two.
Less girls wanted to play on the team this year, so the varsity team only consists of around six players. During this game, however, one player was not eligible to play, so the team only had a starting five.
Karen Grewal got fouled out in the third quarter, leaving the team with only four players for the rest of the game.

What’s Next | The teams next game will be on Monday, Nov. 27, against Eagle Rock as an away game.

Team thoughts | “When the junior varsity team was playing all we could hear was the SOCES varsity talking a lot of trash about us so when they got beat by our varsity team we all felt so good,” junior varsity team member Angalina Volpe said.

Our thoughts | This is an amazing way to start off the season for the girls team because it only means that the lady wolves will continue to succeed for the remainder of their season. Make sure to support this amazing team throughout the season.

For the books |

1 wins, 0 losses
Valley Mission League

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Isabel Valles, Athletics Editor

Through participating in multiple sports writing competitions, I was able to prove my commitment to the class and was chosen to become sports editor in my second year of journalism. My love for sports writing came around the time my love for sports developed around 6 years ago. Another thing I love about writing about sports is being able to inform and catch up readers about games that they may have missed. Currently I play three sports, flag football, track and field, and basketball. After high school I plan on attending either the University of Pennsylvania or the University of Santa Cruz. My goal for this year as editor is to become a better leader and learn from any mistakes that I might make in the process.

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