The starters that look to continue the winning tradition at Tucker County is seniors Stephanie Betler, Bekah Simmons and Savannah Ambrose. Lost to graduation from last year’s team is point guard Hunter Radford and 4 year starter and 1,000 point scorer Amber Evans. Coach Ambrose is looking to get some big minutes from his seniors, but he is also expecting big things from his juniors Madison Mullenax, Olivia Miller, Aiyana Kachmarek and Summer Snyder who got some valuable time at the varsity level last year. Others that look to help out at the varsity level are freshman Elizabeth Nichols and sophomores Madison Reall, Lydia Mullenax and Lily Nestor.
This year the schedule is a little tougher than last year as the Lady Mt. Lions will play a scrimmage game at “AA” Fairmont Senior on Dec 2nd and then open the season at home against “AA” Philip-Barbour on Dec 6th. Tucker County will make a return trip to the Northern Panhandle early in the season to play in a competitive mixer at John Marshall High School. Tucker County will face “AAA” John Marshall in the first game on Dec 20th. On the next evening Tucker County will face Wheeling Central Catholic at John Marshall. This year will feature home and away games against Notre Dame, “AA” Petersburg and Philip-Barbour and rivals Southern Garrett, East Hardy, Tygarts Valley and Pocahontas Co to give the Lady Mt. Lions some good experience heading into the playoffs. The schedule also features a home game against “AAA” John Marshall. The remaining schedule has home and away contest against Pendleton Co and Moorefield and an away contest against Trinity Christian. The Sectional and Regional arrangement this year is as follows: Region 2, Section 1; Tucker County, Tygarts Valley, South Harrison, Notre Dame, Harman and Union. Region 2, Section 2 is; Moorefield, East Hardy, Paw Paw, Pendleton County, Pocahontas County and WV School for Deaf. Coach Ambrose is hoping that this year the team can expand on the style of play he implemented last year. This year the team is working on more conditioning and trying to push the ball down the floor more quickly and efficiently.
The JV squad will play an 18 game schedule and feature the following players: sophomores Lily Nestor, Scottie Bowley, Lydia Mullenax, Madison Reall, Leslie Nestor, Jenna White, Abby Eye and freshman Elizabeth Nichols, Leah Underwood and Jenna Walker. For a full season schedule go to TuckerCountySports.Com. Next week look for the Tucker County Boys’ Basketball Preview.
