Monday, February 13, 2017
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Longtime Head Coach Derk Lands talks to his young team. Photo by Michelle Carney Also something much different from years past is the fact that Lands has been going through radiation and chemo while battling cancer during the season.
to score at least four points. If we all do our job, we will win."
"You can just tell in his face if he's had his chemo that day because his face gets a little more red than usual." said Rhoten. "He's had a great attitude through it and that's helped us stay positive."
"We're not even the same team right now that we were when we played them." said Hargrove. "I don't think they really know what's coming."
Madisyn Hargrove echoed those statements, "This year's been a really big change and its actually "It has been different, but it's been been really awesome. The alright." said Lands at practice on freshmen have really picked up and Wednesday. "It's probably been a took a role." little more taxing, fatigue-wise, but it is what it is and it's what I Howe was defeated earlier in the do." year by Whitesboro, but so much has changed since then and the Rhoten, a senior starter said that young Lady Bulldogs have the team could tell when he's not improved each week and they feel having a good day, but he won't they are a much better team when let anyone know. they face them tonight.
Rhoten stated that this team is constructed differently due to not having Riley Harvey to count on.
What they didn't see before was what the team refers to as the "fiveand-five." Instead of substituting one player at a time, Lands rotates an entire group of five in the game at a time. One group of five will start a quarter and another group of five will finish the quarter. It's something he's never done before until this year.
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"The difference between last year and this year is now we have to rely on each other more than just one or two players." said Rhoten. "This year you don't see just one person who has 40 points in a "There's been 10 of them this year game and the others have two. and we've used all 10 of them. We Coach Lands says that we all have continued on page 4
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