The Sweet Home High School girls basketball team started out a little rocky on Nov. 28 at a jamboree at Central Linn but pulled things together to win their second quarter.
The Huskies played a quarter against Philomath and a quarter against Central Linn.
“The first game, it was rusty,” said Coach Kerstin Brosterhous. “You could tell it was our first time out against someone else.”
The team ended up playing pretty well at the end, she said, and the Huskies won their second quarter.
“It was like we played a game before,” Brosterhous said. “What we struggled with at the beginning was the team working together.”
Only two or three players worked together consistently on varsity last year, Brosterhous said, and that showed in timing.
“I felt like started clicking,” she said of the second quarter. “Our effort was better.”
Haley Kent was on fire, Brosterhous said. She was everywhere on defense and shooting on offense. People started feeding off of that.
They were pulling down the boards and playing better all around, she said.
Starting their season this week, scheduled to play at Stayton Tuesday night, Brosterhous was feeling “pretty good” about the team.
She is missing some girls, who are ineligible right now, but she is looking forward to seeing how the team takes what it’s been doing well with in practice and putting it on the court in a full game.