Park Hill Girls look to end streak, start anew

Before Monday night’s game against Belton, the Park Hill Lady Trojans hadn’t played a game in over two weeks. Those weeks have hardly been a break for Coach Brian Rockers team though. Several key areas they set out to focus on in practice last week was rebounding, cutting down on turnovers, and finishing shots. Park Hill started the season off on quite a hot streak by winning five consecutive games including a Fort Osage Tournament championship before dropping two in a row to Truman and Platte County the week before Christmas. They are now 5-2 on the season heading into the new year.

The Lady Trojans have been led offensively by leading scorers Laura Bennett and Katy Plummer. Sophomore Kyleesha Weston had run the offense at the point while senior Emma Gossett has provided a steady hand in the back court along with an aggressive defensive mentality. Among others, Helena Hudson and Michele Rupard have provided some quality minutes off the bench.

Park Hill will be sharing double-headers with the boy’s teams against Lee’s Summit West on Wednesday and Park Hill South on Friday. Lee’s Summit West is 2-5 coming into the week while Park Hill South comes in with a young squad at 0-5.

“They’re very capable opponents and it will be important to us to get the new year off to a good start and get off our two game losing skid,” Rockers said of this week’s games.