By Luke Loftus The Johnstown Breeze
2025-12-25 06:00 AM
Girls Basketball
The Lady Rough Riders aren’t off to the start they were hoping for, currently sitting at 2-4 to start the season. The four losses coming to Legend, Windsor, Northridge and Fort Collins. Their two wins came against Cherry Creek and Wellington.
It seems some of the struggle has been on the offensive end of the floor. In their four losses, they only averaged 33 points. But in their two wins they scored 59 and 52.
The ladies are currently led by senior and CSU Ram basketball commit, Kyla Lin Hollier. She is averaging 16.8 points and 11.8 rebounds a game. Kyla had 30 points and 19 rebounds in a win against Cherry Creek, shooting 8-13 from behind the arc and 11-14 from the free throw line. She missed two games, the 59-41 win against Wellington and the 52-35 loss to Northridge.
Junior Ava Grosboll has also been playing well; she is averaging 13 points and 9.3 rebounds a game. In the two games without Hollier, Grosboll had 22 points and nine rebounds against Wellington, and 11 points and seven rebounds in a loss to Northridge.
Last year, the ladies shot a bit more efficiently, shooting 44 percent from the field and 30 percent from behind the three-point line. So far this year, they have shot 29 percent from the field and 17 percent from behind the threepoint line.
Boys Basketball
After starting the season a perfect 3-0, the boys have gone 3-2 since then, making their overall record 6-2. The two losses came against Poudre and Fort Collins. The three wins came against Pomona, Wellington, and Northridge.
Their three wins have been in dominant fashion. The average margin of victory of those last three wins: an astounding 40 points.
In the 87-42 win over Pomona, senior Brooks Reckard had 32 points on 13-20 shooting and 6-10 from three. The team had 23 steals in this game, led by junior Noah Lucero with six of his own.
In the 85-37 win over Wellington, freshman Heydyn Bahnsen-Price led all scoring with 20. Getting to the free throw line 10 times and making seven. Once again, the boys got after it defensively, gathering 14 steals as a team.
The boys didn’t stop getting their hands in lanes in their 76-48 win over Northridge, tallying 17 steals as a team and nine from Reckard, who almost had a triple double with steals. He had 17 points, nine rebounds, and nine steals. Senior big man, Brody Burke, had a double double in this one, 17 points and 14 rebounds.
Both teams are off for Christmas break right now. They both resume play January 6 at home against Greeley Central.