Hoop girls cap 3-19 season

Madison County’s girls basketball season did not go as planned during the team’s 2008-2009 campaign. Coach Katherine Johnson’s squad could never get a string of wins during the season, which in turn didn’t allow it to gain momentum to pull through the rest of the season and get into the play-offs. The team did pull together to go 3-19, 0-8 getting the key three wins against Luray twice and then against Monticello.

By far the biggest victory of the season was at Monticello, because of the fact that it was a win over a AA school. But overall, the Mountaineer girls then had a downward spiral for the rest of the season and didn’t win a game in the Bull Run District and lost by both big and large margins. Two key loses were against eventual state champion George Mason’s Mustang girls, 36-21 and 35-27.

Also, Strasburg was a key team in the BRD this year and Madison couldn’t get wins over the Ram girls, losing 48-28 and 41-30 late in the season.

Next year, Madison will lose starters in Ariel Long and Cara McCurry, as well as foreign exchange student and senior Milena Maksimovea. But the core team of juniors and sophomores will return next year. Juniors Caitlyn Ford and Rachel Strahan, along with sophomore Jordan Aylor, will return as starters next year and Laura Berry will return off the bench for the team as well as it looks to do better in 2010 and end up in the play-offs.