Small is beautiful and sometimes even more successful than the big as exemplified by the Prides, the junior girls’ basketball team of the Mecca Glen School, who have become undefeated champions of their league with only a total of three substitutes to take them through the whole season.
Girl Prides won over second place junior girl Broncs with an impressive score of 48-16 (first half 30-6) on Thursday, Feb. 4 at the Ponoka Secondary Campus gym. The game was dominated from the beginning to the end by the visitors.
“We are actually a very young team this year, with only three returning players and five new girls, all in Grade 6 and 7,” said Mecca Glenn coach Adam Troitsky. “Those three returning players have been sensational leaders all season.”
He said their success owed to the girls’ passion about basketball and the energy they put into their game.
Junior Broncs’ coach Adrian Paolinelli said his team had struggled from the beginning in executing offensive plays and they were also poor in defence. He added that his team needed to play solid defence and move the ball better.
Mecca Glen’s boys under limelight
Boy Prides, Mecca Glen’s undefeated junior boys’ basketball teams are looking forward to repeating the girls’ success today, Wednesday, Feb. 10 against another undefeated team, St Augustine Kings when they face off at 4 p.m. at Mecca Glen School gym.