By John Kemmeter

After coming up short of a trip to state last year, the Amherst High School girls basketball team will look to make another deep run this season.

Senior forward Maizie Berry is one of four returning starters this season for the fourth-ranked Amherst High School girls basketball team.
(John Kemmeter photo)

The fourth-ranked Falcons returned four starters and seven of their top nine players from last year’s team that finished 24-2 and reached the WIAA Division 3 Sectional Finals.

Reigning back-to-back Central Wisconsin Conference-8 (CWC-8) Champion Amherst has already won a pair of key conference matchups on the road this season on the way to an 12-1 start overall, and will look to remain unbeaten in the conference when it hosts Weyauwega-Fremont at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Jan. 12.

“The season’s been going good,” said Amherst girls basketball head coach Gregg Jensen. “We have seven girls returning that had a lot of playing time, and we’ve got a couple more that we want to bring along gradually that don’t have a lot of experience, but are getting some time here and there.

“We’ve had some sickness and we’ve had some injuries, and other people have come through,” he said.

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Amherst High School junior guard Ashley Groshek drives between a pair of defenders on the way to the basket in the Falcons’’ 58-31 win over Osseo-Fairchild at the 46th Sentry Classic at Bennett Court at Quandt Fieldhouse Thursday, Dec. 28.
(John Kemmeter photo)

Amherst High School senior center Heather Pearson (44) rips a loose ball away from a defender during the fourth-ranked Falcons’’ 64-47 win over St. Mary Catholic at the 46th Sentry Classic at Bennett Court at Quandt Fieldhouse Saturday, Dec. 30.
(John Kemmeter photo)