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Rebuilding year for Avon girls hoop team

AVON, Dec. 1 – It’s been a long, fruitful run for the Avon High girls basketball team at the top of the North Central Connecticut Conference. The Falcons have won 10 of the last 12 league championships, including last year when they went 15-1. Avon played in the finals of the NCCC Tournament every year from 1999 through 2010.

In the last 13 years, the Falcons have played in two state championship games, winning it all in 2008 when they captured the Class L championship.
That run could be at an end this year. It is a very young Falcon team that will take the court this season. Four of five starters from have graduated and only two of the top seven players from last year’s team have returned.

“Our goals are a little bit different than they have been in the past,” long-time Avon High coach Frank Waters said. “This year, we’re trying to get better every week, to compete and be in the top division of the NCCC. Hopefully, we can come of age at tournament time.”

Winters had hoped to lean on Caroline Jadovich, an All-NCCC selection last winter with a team-leading 17.6 points a game, a team-high 63 three-point shots and 47 steals. But Jadovich decided to return to Miss Porter’s in Farmington where she spent the first two years of high school career. Jenna Donahue, the team’s No. 2 rebounder a year ago with 6.9 caroms a game, did not choose to play basketball this winter.

The two most experienced players returning for the Falcons (18-6, 15-1 NCCC) are senior Chelsea Foster, who was the sixth player off the bench last year, averaging 5.1 points and 2.0 rebounds a game, and sophomore point guard Anna Schrecengost, who averaged 5.0 points, 3.5 rebounds and a team-high 3.6 assists per game as a freshman. She is the lone returning starter.

Look for sophomores Julia Schrecengost, Caroline Schaefer, Madison Mains, Lauren Miller and Emma Hartman to get plenty of playing time along with freshmen Michaela Marcus and Shannon Curry.  “This is the youngest, least experienced team I’ve had since I’ve have been coaching here,” Waters said. He took over in 1998.

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Gerry deSimas, Jr., is the editor and founder of The Collinsville Press. He is an award-winning writer and has been covering sports in Connecticut and New England for more than 40 years. He was inducted into the New England High School Wrestling Hall of Fame in 2018.

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