The Forsyth Country Day girls’ basketball team is only three games into its season, but the early returns have been encouraging.
The Furies easily handled Walkertown 47-22 in the semifinals of the Champion bracket in the Mary Garber Holiday Tipoff Classic Monday night at Glenn, which gives them a berth in Wednesday night’s championship game against No. 1 North Wilkes and improves their perfect record to 3-0.
Forsyth Country Day has now won all three of its game by an average of more than 24 points, with its closest contest coming in the form of a 12-point victory against Salem Baptist in the first round of the Mary Garber.
“It’s hard to judge when it’s a little lopsided, but I can tell I have a group of kids that have really bought into the system,” said coach Ronnalee Terry of FCD after the game against Walkertown.
“We did some summer camps together and worked out a lot during those summer months, so I feel like we are a much better team now than we were at this point last season.”
The Furies instilled their dominance early, utilizing a full-court press that forced turnovers on Walkertown’s first three possessions and eventually led to FCD scoring the game’s first 13 points and 18 of the first 20.
“We like to (pressure) early because it gets the kids involved in the game and seems to get them going,” Terry said. “Especially in a late night game like this when you never really know how they’re going to respond.”
Forsyth Country Day led by double-figures the rest of the way, eventually pushing its lead to as many as 33 points midway through the fourth quarter.
The Furies boasted a balanced scoring attack that featured seven different players, led by senior Gabby Kozlowski and junior Tori Huggins, who scored 13 points and 10 points, respectively.
Even after the Furies backed off their full-court press, Walkertown (1-3) struggled to score.
The Wolfpack shot just 32.4 percent (11-for-34) as a team, which included missing the mark on all eight of their 3-point attempts.
A bright spot for Walkertown and coach Belinda Howard, however, was the play of freshman guard Khaliyah McCummings, who led the team with 10 points on 4-of-10 shooting from inside the arc.
“Like I told them, this is no reason to panic,” Howard said. “We were kind of expecting this. We didn’t always execute right, but we did our job as much as I can expect right now.”
The Furies easily handled Walkertown 47-22 in the semifinals of the Champion bracket in the Mary Garber Holiday Tipoff Classic Monday night at Glenn, which gives them a berth in Wednesday night’s championship game against No. 1 North Wilkes and improves their perfect record to 3-0.
Forsyth Country Day has now won all three of its game by an average of more than 24 points, with its closest contest coming in the form of a 12-point victory against Salem Baptist in the first round of the Mary Garber.
“It’s hard to judge when it’s a little lopsided, but I can tell I have a group of kids that have really bought into the system,” said coach Ronnalee Terry of FCD after the game against Walkertown.
“We did some summer camps together and worked out a lot during those summer months, so I feel like we are a much better team now than we were at this point last season.”
The Furies instilled their dominance early, utilizing a full-court press that forced turnovers on Walkertown’s first three possessions and eventually led to FCD scoring the game’s first 13 points and 18 of the first 20.
“We like to (pressure) early because it gets the kids involved in the game and seems to get them going,” Terry said. “Especially in a late night game like this when you never really know how they’re going to respond.”
Forsyth Country Day led by double-figures the rest of the way, eventually pushing its lead to as many as 33 points midway through the fourth quarter.
The Furies boasted a balanced scoring attack that featured seven different players, led by senior Gabby Kozlowski and junior Tori Huggins, who scored 13 points and 10 points, respectively.
Even after the Furies backed off their full-court press, Walkertown (1-3) struggled to score.
The Wolfpack shot just 32.4 percent (11-for-34) as a team, which included missing the mark on all eight of their 3-point attempts.
A bright spot for Walkertown and coach Belinda Howard, however, was the play of freshman guard Khaliyah McCummings, who led the team with 10 points on 4-of-10 shooting from inside the arc.
“Like I told them, this is no reason to panic,” Howard said. “We were kind of expecting this. We didn’t always execute right, but we did our job as much as I can expect right now.”
