Elk Grove gives DHS a run for their money

By Krystal Lau,

HUB Correspondent-

The game starts out slow as players dribble back and forth across the floor. The buzzer sounds once again as Elk Grove takes the lead. Moments later, Davis takes the lead once more. DHS’s JV women’s basketball team starts the season off nicely with a win of 34-24 in their first game of the league on Jan.8.

“It’s been a very close game, going up and down, back and forth,” Karen Moore, teacher at Holmes Jr. High and avid basketball fan said.

Elk Grove is always big competition for Davis, according to Moore, but Davis and Elk Grove are pretty evenly matched for this game. By the second quarter, Blue Devils have seven fouls while Elk Grove has five.

“It was starting to be a pretty slow game,” Referee Bowen Bradshaw said.

Sophomore Alaina King missed the penalty shot twice in the third quarter, disheartening the crowd. The scores swing back and forth, Davis ahead by a point, then Elk Grove, then Davis again, yo-yoing back and forth.

“It wasn’t entirely competitive, but they pulled it off as the game went on,” athletic director Dennis Foster said.

However, the game started to heat up fourth quarter as freshman Sofie Seng scores three penalty shots, giving DHS a big gap ahead.

“The game showed that we could come back and play as a team and play smart,” JV coach Kalyca Seabrook said, “Sofie really attacked the baskets, got rebounds, stuck up for this game and led the team.”

Though the team had previously not been doing well, this win means a lot with team strengthening. Freshman Sarah Cordano also brought her own to the team.

“Sarah Cordano was previously struggling, but she really stepped it up this game and helped her teammate through it all,” Seabrook said, “A lot of the girls are freshman so they don’t know how to play with this intensity. This game really showed them how to go out there and play.”