The Newcastle Lady Cats’ home opener was spoiled Tuesday, Aug. 29 by the visiting Breckenridge Lady Bucks. After dropping the opening set, the Lady Bucks defeated the Lady Cats 1925, 26-24, 25-16, 24-26, 15-9 in a five-set match.
Girls’ basketball hasn’t been the most successful program at Smackover in recent years. New coach Jon Pigott and the Lady Bucks have been working this summer to change that. Smackover has been to Lafayette County summer dates four times and to Genoa Central once, playing a total of 15 games this summer.
New El Dorado girls’ basketball coach Makara Frazier wasn’t planning on running the entire program when she joined Ashlee Curtis’ staff as an assistant last summer.
After a 17-7 season, Curtis resigned to take a job as an assistant principal at the high school. Frazier, who was head coach for three years at her alma mater Smackover, was named head coach a few weeks ago.