Young guns pushing Grace Brethren back to respectibility

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After last year’s winless campaign, it’s great to see Grace Brethren‘s girls’ basketball team is off to a 7-0 start with a tournament title under its belt. I realize the Lancers haven’t faced the toughest of competition, but at least they’re making some headway under first-year Coach Walter Wolf.

And they’re doing it with two freshmen leading the way. Kassy Dunn is averaging a team-best 17 ppg and Taylor Kaloi is averaging more than eight points and five rebounds. Both are at the front of a Lancer youth movement that could make this team a Frontier League title contender in the years to come.

Unfortunately, I don’t think the Lancers are polished enough to say they’ll challenge the likes of Carpinteria and La Reina this season. Tuesday’s game against Malibu will present a challenge, especially when you consider they’ll enter the contest not having played a game in 26 days. Still, I like their chances in this one and it could mark the first real step toward regaining the swagger that made the Lancers a Delphic League co-champion back in 2006.

-- Austin Knoblauch