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Physicality and hard work will be the keys for success for the Mount Si girls basketball team this winter. The team has three seniors, an experienced bench and a new head coach. First, newcomer CeOna Duggins is a senior transfer from Garfield High School, bringing some solid fundamentals.

December 9, 2014 5:16 pm

Physicality and hard work will be the keys for success for the Mount Si girls basketball team this winter. The team has three seniors, an experienced bench and a new head coach.

First, newcomer CeOna Duggins is a senior transfer from Garfield High School, bringing some solid fundamentals.

“She’s a little bit of everything,” said coach Taylor Bass. “She does a very good job of using her body.” That’s the important thing, the coach added.

“She can fill whatever role that we need,” Bass said. “She can be a scorer, a slasher, she plays good defense, does a good job of boxing out and being physical. She brings that physicality for us.”

“I play because I love the competitiveness and aggressiveness,” Duggins said. “I enjoy being active. I am a small forward, but I enjoy drop-stepping the ball and going up for a layup.”

Senior Madi Bevens is a jack of all trades, who’s not afraid of contact—”She’s happy to take it and push people around,” said Bass.

Bevens is also developing into a good outside shooter, and is good from the corner, said Bass.

“We are fighters,” said Bevens. “We work so hard, put in extra hours all the time. We hustle, we’re here to fight.”

Elizabeth Prewitt, who has started all four years of high school, is a leader.

“She gives us directions. She’s someone who can score, dribble, pass well, sees the floor real well, and directs her teammates. She kind of does everything,” Bass said. Expect Prewitt to become the Wildcats’ leading scorer.

“We are a new program,” Prewitt said. “It’s a new season, a new league. Everything’s new. I want to show people we work hard, we’re scrappy. We might be small, but we play big.”

Junior Annie Hiebert is the Wildcat’s aggressive post: “our beast in the middle,” said Bass.

The team can also rely on some experienced sophomores, among them Hayden Frederick, Emma Smith and Mady Privatsky.

Bass, a former assistant from Skyline, replaced Megan Botulinski this fall.

His philosophy is that hard work can beat more talented teams when talent fails to work hard.

“As long as we’re working hard every day, we have a chance to win every game,” Bass said.

These girls want to win, and are putting in the work. Against Eastlake last week, they won the second half and narrowly lost the match, after fighting to a brief lead. Bass wants to see them continue to grind.

“I am all about defense,” Bas said. “I want us to hold teams to under 40 points.”

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