The highschool basketball season got here to an finish for groups from the Occasions Space on Wednesday as Gettysburg and Delone Catholic every dropped nail-biting state quarterfinals.
Along with the tip of the season, it delivered to an finish 4 years of ladies’ basketball like Adams County had by no means seen earlier than.
Gettysburg, Delone and Bermudian Springs, every of whom made valiant state event runs, boasted not solely a few of the greatest groups within the state over the previous 4 seasons, but in addition a few of the greatest gamers.
A fast take a look at the numbers tells the story:
• Over the past 4 seasons, Delone Catholic has posted a 100-9 over file. The Squirettes went good, 48-0 in YAIAA Division 3. They appeared within the district finals all 4 years, claiming three championships. Within the state event, the Squirettes went 10-2, profitable all of it in 2019 and reaching the quarterfinals every time, together with a 2020 season that was lower brief resulting from COVID.
• Gettysburg was darn close to pretty much as good over the past 4 seasons. Jeff Bair’s group posted a 94-19 file in that span, together with 4 journeys to the district title sport, two district championships, a YAIAA Division 2 title and a 5-2 exhibiting within the state event, with two runs to the quarterfinals
• However don’t neglect in regards to the Eagles. Bermudian Springs, oft missed resulting from Delone’s dominance, went 75-30 over the four-year span. The Eagles reached the state event 3 times, together with this previous yr. Maybe most spectacular of all, Berm is the lone member of the group to assert a YAIAA Event championship, grabbing the county crowd simply final month with a win over the Squirettes.
Whereas the success of those three standout packages could be attributed to a lot of causes: program constructing, a few of the space’s high coaches, buy-in from all athletes and staff cohesion, one space particularly stands out, star gamers.
Between the three packages, there are six seniors who reached the 1,000-point milestone. The Eagles turned the primary staff in Occasions Space historical past to have three gamers hit the mark in the identical season in 2021-22, with Bailey Oehmig, Hannah Chenault and Lillian Peters all reaching the mark. The Warriors had a pair of thousand-point scorers, with Division I-bound level guard Anne Bair eclipsing 1,000 a yr in the past and Bloomsburg signee Camryn Felix doing so this previous season. For the Squirettes, in the meantime, Mount St. Mary’s pledge Giana Hoddinott hit the marker, following within the footsteps of former teammate Brooke Lawyer who did so within the 2019-20 season in addition to Felix, who performed her freshman season with Delone.
The Bermudian trio wasn’t simply milestone-reaching, however record-setting. Oehmig’s 1,449 factors is essentially the most in class historical past, adopted by Chenault’s 1,393. Peters checks in at seventh all-time with 1,019 factors, not far behind former teammate Skyler West, who eclipsed 1,000 factors in 2020.
Bair, who broke older sister Ellen’s file for assists in class historical past a yr in the past, additionally sits in third in Warriors’ historical past with 1,476 factors. A lot of these assists discovered their method into the arms of the sharp-shooting Felix, whose 1,183 kilos place her in seven in class historical past.
After which there’s Hoddinott, who’s one in all simply six seniors who’ve led a historic run for the Squirettes, together with teammate Abby Jacoby who missed her senior season following a torn ACL in a scrimmage. Hoddinott, who has proved a succesful scorer on all three ranges, poured in 1,449 factors over her profession, sixth-most in Delone Catholic historical past.
The three groups mixed to place up a jaw-dropping 269-58 information over 4 years, a mean of 22-5 for every staff. The group of six seniors, which has commanded each little bit of consideration they’ve obtained, scored a whopping 7,969 mixed factors.
WIth coaches like Jeff Bair at Gettysburg, Gerry Eckenrode at Delone Catholic and Todd Askins at Bermudian Springs, it will be naive to suppose that this run of success couldn’t be matched once more. However no matter group of younger gamers steps onto these courts, they’ll have some large sneakers to fill.
Tom Sixeas helped contribute to the researching of this piece. Observe on Twitter at @TomSixeas