Girls' Basketball

If you didn't know, I am the head coach of the Girls' basketball team at San Rafael JH. With the high school taking several of my girls, I was left with 2 ninth graders and then a handful of 8th graders to make up my varsity team. I knew that we would still so well, but how well I was not sure. As of now, about half way through the season, we are still undefeated at the Varsity level. Our last game was against the Mont Harmon Pirates, who until our game was also undefeated. It was a very interesting game. Our team came out strong going up 9-0 to start and had a 15-6 lead at the end of first quarter. Mont Harmon started to come back and then took the lead in the 3rd quarter. By the end of that quarter Mont Harmon had an 8 point lead. My girls fought back and won the game by 3. It was a very entertaining game.

Our JV team is very young. All are 7th graders except for when we play some 8th graders down. It is tough. It is like on the job training for many of them. There are a lot of things that we need to work on, but they are coming along. They had their first win Thursday night and the won again on Friday. It was good. Hopefully they will keep coming along and developing and do well in the tournament.

Now I will step on my soap box for a quick minute. The district and school board really need to move ninth grade athletics up to the high school. It is hard to run a program when you don't know how many ninth graders you will have. I do encourage all my girls to go and try up just so the high school coaches know that they are interested. Then at the Junior High there needs to be strictly and 8th grade team and a 7th grade team. That would help even things up in athletics in the junior highs