The Twin Cedars Girls basketball Squad made significant improvements this season. The Sabers, for starters, more than doubled their win total from a year ago, from five last season to 11 this year, and for a few games was above the .500 mark this season. While their season did not end how the Sabers would have liked, the final regular season game will go down as the game, if not the finish of the year. With time winding down, the Sabers trailed by five points and Coach Trent Verwers witnessed the comeback of the season.
Verwers:
“I told the girl in that time out, we need to get aggressive and if you foul so be it. Kisha Reed got the deflection and Brooke Roby got the game winning layup. It was one of those moments that they’ll remember for the rest of their lives and it was a great way to send the seniors out in their last home game.”
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Brooke Roby and Cheyanne Bruns tied for the team lead in points with 8 apiece.
Twin Cedars finished with an overall record of 11-11, including 7-3 in Bluegrass Conference play. That was good enough for a share of third place in the league standings. All of those are the best for the Sabers girls since 2012.
The Twin Cedars basketball teams played in their final contests of the annual Bluegrass Conference tournament Thursday and split their matchups on the consolation side of the bracket. The Sabers girls fell to Diagonal 25-24 and the boys defeated Moulton-Udell 64-41.
The Sabers girls were led by Brooke Roby and Jenna Hastings, who each scored eight points. Despite having a great defensive showing, Head Coach Trent Verwers says that you simply can’t win without putting up 30 on the scoreboard yourselves.
“We can have our best defensive night of the year, but at the end of the day if you don’t put up even 30 points it’s going to be hard to win. We just got to get another win and then I think we’ll be back to moving along. We got some tough teams coming up. It’ll be nice to get that double digit win first. Tonight would have been an easier night to do that as opposed to who we got coming up. It’s not impossible, but just not where it needed to be to win.”