Catch, shoot, buzz

Looking back at the end of the girls basketball season

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Matt Delk

Grace Rutter and Hailey Huseth defend their basket

The buzzer sounded loud for the final time and the Cannon Falls girls basketball team rang in the end of their 2014-2015 season. The girl ballers played their last game against Kenyon-Wanamingo and finished with a score of 26-72. Although they didn’t advance past the first round of play offs and the score didn’t look favorable, the ultimate goal of the team was reached for the overall year. Captain Callie Loeschke remarks that the goal “Was to do better in little ways” and she continues to say they achieved that through, “working hard as a team to improve.” Every practice the girls worked on the simple things like learning how to catch every ball to having proper form when shooting every basket. “We all had the same determination to do better.” Loeschke adds, “We had a new coach too who pushed us to always do our best.” Under the directory of Michael Gunderson the girls ended the season with a 4-22 record. Gunderson only just got his feet wet as a new coach for the basketball team, but in the years to come he hopes to make a greater splash. This splash, however, will be a difficult thing to do as Loeschke points out, “It will be hard next year without Brie and Ashly, they are the backbones to our team.” These seniors were a great asset to the program and will be greatly missed. The girls team has a promising future up ahead as many young girls will be coming up to the high school, and the new goal that will be set includes increasing the winning digits at the final tally. With the last buzzer sounding as a distant memory, the only goal setting the winter ballers can do now is to prepare for their season next year.