Lady Leps Roll in Home Finale
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La Grange’s Macie Collier fights for control of the ball in Friday’s game against Caldwell. Photo by Jeff Wick -
La Grange’s Kylie Trlicek with a steal Friday. She scored a teamhigh 21 points. Photo by Jeff Wick -
The three senior members of the Lady Leps basketball team pose after Friday’s win. Left to right: Kaylee Holmes, manager Alley Olvera and Landri Hernandez. Photo by Jeff Wick
The Lady Leps only have two seniors, but Landri Hernandez and Kaylee Holmes’ final home game was a celebratory one as the La Grange girls smoked Caldwell 70-22 Friday.
“I told them before the game that I was proud of them for sticking with it,” La Grange head coach Heath Golan said. “This isn’t the easiest sport to play. It’s one of the few contact sports girls have and some shy away from that. They start out in 7th grade with about 40 of them. It’s a testament to these two to stay with it this long. They have given us everything they have.” Hernandez scored 12 and Holmes scored six.
“I just wanted to play hard and have fun in our last game here,” Homes said.
“It was sad after playing here so long,” Hernandez said. “I was thinking about how this program shaped us.”
Junior Kylie Trlicek led the way with 21 points and sophomore Campbell Cooper added 17 as the Lady Leps improved to 23-20 overall and 7-2 in district.
The win moved the Lady Leps into a second place tie with Navasota, the very team they will head on the road to play Tuesday in the regular season finale. The winner of that game will grab the No. 2 playoff seed in District 22-4A, while the loser will be the No. 3 postseason seed.
This will be a rematch of a game three weeks ago in which Navasota beat La Grange by two points.
“We got off to a slow start against them here,” Golan said of Navasota. “When you get in a hole against a good team like that it’s tough to battle back. To our girls credit we did but had to expend a lot of energy to get to that point. We had some chances to take the lead late and just weren’t able to.”
Hernandez didn’t play in that earlier matchup.
“We just need to control what we can control and play our game this time,” Hernandez said.
“We have to play really good defense against them,” Holmes said.
One thing is certain Tuesday.
“It will be a playoff atmosphere,” Golan said.
1/31/25
La Grange girls 70, Caldwell 22
La Grange 21 17 20 12 – 70 Caldwell 6 9 2 5 – 22 La Grange scoring: Kylie Trlicek- 21, Campbell Cooper-17, Landri Hernandez- 12, Kaylee Holmes- 6, Avery Griffin- 4, Macie Collier- 3, Brion Williams-3, Hannah Gross- 2, Haedyn Cooper- 2.
Record: Lady Leps are 23-10, 7-2 in district.
22-4A Girls Basketball Smithville 8-1 Navasota 7-2 La Grange 7-2 Bellville 2-7 Caldwell 2-7 Giddings 1-8