Varsity Lady Sheiks lose first game

Posted on February 17, 2015 by Ana Amador in Sports

Vanessa Centeno

Chronicle Reporter

Varsity Ladies undefeated streak ended Feb.13 at Belmont High School losing 48-43.

The girls held an undefeated record of 16 wins to zero losses until facing the Sentinels who ended it after a very intense battle.

This was the second game played against the Lady Sentinels this season, who are known as being the toughest team in their league. The Lady Sheiks won their previous game of the season against Belmont with a 16 point lead, 51-35, but couldn’t keep up this time around.

Hollywood had a 2 point lead the first quarter scoring 13 points slightly ahead of the 11 points scored by Belmont. The lead the girls had was solid most of the second half until Belmont began to take more control of the ball ending the first half with a lead.

By the end of the first half Belmont had the slightest lead of one point against Hollywood, 19-18. The second half of the game was when the ladies began to lose their game.

There were turnovers rebounds and many factors that led to our Lady Sheiks to fall behind. By the end of third quarter the Lady Sentinels had a 7 point lead of 34-27.

There was no comeback from there, our girls played the best they could but never recovered. Belmont had many steals that kept Hollywood from getting any further in the game. The game ended with a 5 point loss of 48-43.

Although coming home with the first defeat of the season the girls can keep their head up high being number 3 in their division in all of California. And in the state they are ranked team number 436.

Still proud of our girls, there will be many more games to prove themselves in as they go on into the playoffs.