Lady Jackets win 4 of their first 5 games
Looking to get on a roll going into January when the games that really count begin, the Calhoun girls are still chugging through their non-region schedule.
Head coach Jaime Echols’ young team has gotten off to a great start this winter by winning their first four games, before they lost to Harrison Tuesday night in Kennesaw.
With not a lot of height or experience, Echols said his team is a talented bunch with a lot of players who can do different things and over the first couple of weeks of the season, they have shown their versatility, playing outstanding defense while still cobbling together the offense.
Echols has also been playing a lot of girls with as many as five guards on the floor at the same time.
Through the first couple weeks of the season, the Jackets have found a lot of different girls who can score and if they continue to shine offensively, by the time 5A Region 7 play tips off next month against Hiram, the Jackets could be a team that has a lot of girls the opposition has to account for.
After jolting Starr Mill’s to start the year, the Lady Jackets won two easy games at the North Murray Tip-Off and then whipped Dalton in their home opener last Saturday afternoon before having their four-game win streak halted.
They began play in Murray County with a 55-38 triumph over Rhea County out of Evansville, Tennessee and then a little over 24 hours later completed it with a 68-28 victory over Chattooga.
Then last Saturday, they knocked off archrival Dalton, 67-48, to put them at 4-0 after four games and the first two weeks of the campaign.
Junior guards Lauren Watson and Britiya Curtis have played very well early and stepped up big for the Jackets in the win over Rhea County.
Watson led Calhoun scorers with 17 points while Curtis added 15 as those two alone nearly matched the Eagles’ total of 38.
The team then had four different players step up offensively in defeating Chattooga in their second game at North Murray.
Freshman guard Sa’Niah Dorsey had a breakout performance in the contest, notching 16 points in just her third varsity game ever to pace her team while sophomore Avery Greeson tallied 10 points and sophomore McKenzie Cumbee and freshman Kat Atha each added eight more.
In the game against Dalton, the Jackets again had a quartet of girls in double figures with
Curtis leading the way with 19 points. Saniah Dorsey had 11 more for Calhoun while Watson and freshman Kat Atha threw in 10 apiece.
The Jackets were on the road Tuesday night to face Pickens County in a game that was rescheduled from Friday night due to the Yellow Jackets’ playoff football game. (Details of that game were not available at press time).
The Jackets are off until this Friday night when they go to Rome to take on Darlington in another non-region outing.
They are supposed to be back home next Saturday to face Paulding County, but the tipoff is set for 4 p.m. and they could be bumping up against the football team playing for the 5A state championship in Atlanta so if they are, it would seem that game will be rescheduled.