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Senior Night ends in success for varsity girls’ basketball

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Senior night for the RBHS girls’ varsity basketball team was Thursday, Feb. 25. The bittersweet celebration punctuated the end of Brianna Ellis’s, Kelly Wilkerson’s, Megan Potthast’s and manager Tommi Bundage’s high school basketball careers.
In the first half,  a combination of teamwork and quick thinking earns RBHS the lead, with the score of 24-9. Rock Bridge racks up 39 more points to finish up the battle with a final score of 73-54.
Sophomore Payton McCallister, sophomore Katey Klucking and senior Brianna Ellis performed especially well with 22, 17 and 14 points respectively.[TS_VCSC_Lightbox_Gallery content_images=”282864,282861,282865,282873,282866,282869,282871,282870″ content_images_size=”full” content_images_titles=”Helias’s guard Kelsey Schenewerk (2) takes advantage of a free throw securing a point for her team. ,Katey Klucking (24) dribbles down the court heading for the opponents hoop,RBHS ended the first quarter with a strong lead- 24-9,The two fiercely competitive teams wasted no opportunity to take control of the ball even if obtaining it meant risking a foul,At halftime the Bruins were looking good with the score at 35-22,Senior Brianna Ellis (34) showed off her skills on senior night scoring a total of 14 points,Though Helias put forth a good defense effort the third quarter ended in RBHS’s favor with 58-37,The senior night ended with the score of 73-54 with the top scorer being Payton McCallister (12) with 22,,,,,,” data_grid_space=”4″ data_grid_order=”true” el_file2=””][/TS_VCSC_Lightbox_Gallery]Action Photo Credit To Grace Dorsey

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    Siena JuhlinApr 14, 2016 at 10:20 pm

    Im so happy for our girls basketball team. Theyve worked super hard and I’m so glad its paying off for them. I think people don’t give them enough recognition.

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    Emily ObaFeb 28, 2016 at 9:08 pm

    We should be proud of our girl bruins hard work, I’m glad that they did so well in representing our school.

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