For a moment, Wray’s No. 31 seems intent on driving to the basket, but when faced with Victoria Race’s defense, she picked up her dribble and had to rethink her strategy. — The Holyoke Enterprise | Johnson Publications
Girls endure close loss to Wray
Holyoke girls basketball played a heated game against Wray last Thursday, Dec. 20, giving up a five-point first-quarter lead to lose 36-40.
Coach John Baumgartner said the team’s offense struggled to get points on the board, even as its defense kept Wray mostly in check.
“We just couldn’t make a shot when we needed to,” he said. “We came out in the first quarter, but we lost momentum in the second.”
Thursday’s game was just one in a particularly demanding block of games — Wray was ranked first in Class 2A in a Dec. 17 Colorado High School Activities Association poll, and upcoming games against No. 3-ranked Limon and Haxtun’s sixth-ranked 1A team promise more close action.
“They’re number one for a reason,” Baumgartner said of Wray.
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