There are only two winless teams left in Class 2A Girls basketball. After nine games in 2017, the ACGC girls are one of them. ACGC has now dropped twelve straight after losing the final three games last season.

This stretch may be tough for Charger players and fans to swallow, but there is hope on the horizon. Junior leading scorer Sierra O’Brien will look to make a return to the court after a bone bruised sidelined her for the final three game of 2017. Before being carried off the court against Panorama, O’Brien led the team in scoring with 10.5 points per game. The junior still leads the team in total scoring with 63 points, and has the highest three-point percentage of any Charger player.

In her absence, senior Mady Smith has stepped up her game. Smith started the season averaging just over 5.5 points per game. Since O’Brien’s injury, Smith has tallied nearly eight points per game, including a season high 14 against Coon Rapids-Bayard. Freshman Kylie Young also saw her first action of the season against CR-B. Young would have seen more playing time but sustained an injury herself during the first junior varsity game of the season.

Of the Chargers nine losses this season, five have come within single digits. As a team, the Chargers are averaging just over 40 points and 37.5 rebounds per game, which is seven more points and 8.5 more rebounds than last year’s squad. The Chargers will open 2018 a week from tonight against Van Meter. The game starts at 6 pm with pre-game coverage at 5:45 from Guthrie Center. You can catch that game, and the boys to follow, on True County K107.9.