Lady Leps Improve to 4-1
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La Grange’s Kaylee Holmes leads a fast break down the court during Tuesday’s victory over Cedar Creek. Photo by Jeff Wick
Quality over quantity.
That’s been the recipe for the early success for the La Grange girls basketball team, which improved to 4-1 this season with a 65-31 victory over 5A Cedar Creek Tuesday at home.
After a serious knee injury to senior starter Landri Hernandez in the first game of the season, the Lady Leps have been playing with just eight players.
But they are eight really good ones.
“It really makes us have to play hard and have good endurance,” said La Grange junior Kylie Trlicek, who had a team-high 18 points Tuesday. “We are all putting in the effort and hustling and that’s how we win games. We struggled a bit scoring tonight, but we kept our energy on defense and that helped us.”
La Grange was in control of this game all night, but their suffocating defense led to lots of steals and easy transition buckets in the fourth quarter to really blow the game open.
Every player scored for the Lady Leps Tuesday.
Senior Kaylee Holmes had 12. The four sophomores on varsity, Macie Collier, Campbell Cooper, Avery Griffin and Hannah Gross scored nine, nine, eight and five respectively. Senior Cara Homer scored four and junior Ella Nygren scored two.
“We’re getting there,” said La Grange head girls basketball coach Heath Golan. “We have lot of little things we need to clean up and get better at. The young girls have gotten a lot of experience already. Losing Landri the first game of the year hurt. We’ll see if she can come back. We have eight that can rotate in to keep us fresh. We’re still trying to work on our conditioning. We’ve got girls that can play multiple positions, which helps.”
Golan won his 300th career game at LHS last week, and has already upped that total to 302.
“I’m sure once this is all over, I’ll be able to sit back and look at things differently and appreciate it more,” Golan said. “I’ve been doing this a long time. It’s exciting, but I’m in the middle of the grind right now – play a game, get ready for the next one.”
The Lady Leps host Thrall Friday at 6 p.m.
“I think we are really gelling and going to have a really good season,” Trlicek said.
11/19/24
La Grange girls 65, Cedar Creek 31
La Grange 18 14 14 19 – 65 Cedar Creek 9 3 15 4 – 31 LG scoring: Kylie Trlicek- 18, Kaylee Holmes- 12, Macie Collier- 9, Campbell Cooper- 9, Avery Griffin- 8, Hannah Gross-5, Cara Homer- 4, Ella Nygren-2. Record 4-1 JV: LG 49, Cedar Creek 21 Leading scorer: Brion Williams 18.