Although they are facing some hardships this season, including losing four players from the beginning of the year, the girls’ varsity basketball team is off to a fast start with a  6-3 record.

With a roster filled of mostly new players due to the hardships, head coach Dennis Krishka and his staff are still adjusting looking for the right combinations to put on the floor at once.

“We were supposed to start of the season with six seniors, coming back from last year’s team,” Krishka said.  “What we have been doing is playing the year with mostly two due to injuries and personal reasons.”

Learning each other’s strengths and weaknesses is something the players are still adjusting to, but they are improving every game.

“We aren’t as strong defensively as we were last year,” Krishka said. “But we are much better on the offensive end of the floor.”

With the mostly new line up, Krishka is still evaluating where the team is at as non-district play wraps up.

“The next couple of weeks will really test our skills,” Krishka said. “Because we have a really tough competition, so the next couple weeks will tell a lot about us.”

Despite all the challenges the team still has two seniors they are leaning on in April Pena and Mariah Seastrunk.

“April Pena and Mariah Seastrunk are giving us that senior leadership that we need,” Krishka said. “They are both our captains and are returning players and have been through this before.”

Krishka sees that the team could still get better on certain parts of the court. One area they want to focus on in practice is defense as they prepare for district play which now after all the school closings takes place tomorrow at Wichita Falls Rider.

“If we can get our defense back to where it was last year I think we will be pretty sound fundamentally,” Krishka said. “We would be on par with anyone out there.”