High School Girls Basketball: Kelso searching for synergy in ‘25-26 season
Flip It & Reverse It – Lassies look to share the rock to keep foes on their toes
Jordan Nailon for Blast Zone Media / blastzonenews@gmail.com
Prep Girls Basketball / Scouting Report
The Kelso girls basketball team has had plenty of time to think about its first loss of the season. After starting the season out with back-to-back wins over R.A. Long and Ridgefield to open the season, the Lassies fell hard at home to Mark Morris last Friday in the opening act of a boys/girls cross-river rivalry doubleheader.
Under normal circumstances the postgame speech likely would have been short and sweet. Learn your lessons. Put it behind you. Move onto the next game. But after Skyview canceled a prearranged non-league date in order to dodge flood season for a tournament in Hawaii, the Lassies were left without a date to circle on the schedule this week.
By the time they play again it will have been at least 286 hours since the Lassies have laced up their sneakers and gotten after it against girls they don’t know wearing different colored jerseys. And while that’s a long time to be forced to dwell on a fistful of shortcomings, the pause in the schedule may have come at a perfect time for a team that’s still searching for its identity early in the season.
“The focus this week has been on us,” Kelso head coach Andrew Johnson said. “It was acutally a pretty good thing to have. Bcaue the way the schedule was set up this year it was a pretty darn quick turnaround. We didn’t get a whole lot of practice leading up to our first real games… Mark Morris showed us what we had to work on, and we’ve been focused on that.”
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