No high school basketball team wins or loses a league championship, District title or anything significant in December. It’s the first month of the season and a time to learn, grow, improve and discover areas that need even more work and attention.
The Dexter girls’ basketball team opened the season with two wins and were feeling pretty good about themselves. But then some reality set in last week with two loses to good teams and the young Dreadnaughts learned that this isn’t going to be easy to get back to where they were last year.
December is about learning and growing and Coach Lauren Thompson is the perfect leader to get this team to its full potential – it’s just going to take some time, which is clearly on their side in early December.
The Dreadnaughts fell to talented Grand Rapids Catholic Central 59-37 on Friday in a non-league game. Playing good competition should pay dividends when the SEC regular season begins.
Like the game before, Dexter had a slow start and it proved costly. GRCC scored 18 points in the first quarter to take a 10-point lead and never looked back. The Dreads played even with them in the second (12-12) and pretty much in the third quarter (15-10).
Chloe Perry had another big game for the Dreads. The senior finished with a team-high 25 points.
Earlier in the week, the Dreads fell behind Bedford 11-2 in the first quarter and were outscored 19-7 in the second quarter and lost 56-37 in an SEC game. The Dreads outscored the Kicking Mules 28-26 in the second half. Perry led Dexter with 15 points, 13 in the second half. Kendall Cabana hit three triples and finished with 11 points and Addison Chase had seven points for Dexter.
