Lady Mikes end season with win
Carmichaels closed out its girls basketball season with a 40-28 win over visiting Bentworth on senior night last Friday.
Although the Lady Mikes fell short of the playoffs, third-year coach Ian McCombs was proud to send off seniors Shelbee McCann, Gina Ranieri and Emily Menhart with a victory.
The rarity is that two of that group 鈥� Ranieri and Menhart 鈥� did not play at all last season, and McCann鈥檚 junior year was slowed by an injury.
鈥淎ll three of them are kind of best friends so it鈥檚 neat to see them go through this journey together,鈥� McCombs said. 鈥淎ll three of them were off and on playing basketball and they all decided kind of together that they were going to play their senior season. It helped the chemistry of the team because they had great chemistry coming in, great leadership skills.
鈥淚t was great to see them come together for their last night here. Our theme for tonight was 鈥楢ll in.鈥� You鈥檙e never going to get this moment back. Even if you鈥檙e a sophomore or junior, your time is going to come, you鈥檝e got to realize that you鈥檝e got to take every moment for what it鈥檚 worth and give it everything that you have, because if not, there鈥檚 no chance to relive it.
鈥淭hey gave it all they had and it ended up being a victory for us. I couldn鈥檛 be more proud of these girls. On and off the court, they鈥檙e the type of student-athletes that you want to have representing your school.鈥�