The Sudan Nettes’ varsity basketball team is looking to make another deep run in the post-season, after making it to the Class 2A Regional Semi-Finals last year.
Head Coach Benny Lockhart has the Nettes at 15-10 overall, 2-0 in district play in his ninth year at the helm in Sudan.
He is assisted by Daniel Gutierrez and Kylee Swofford who are both in their third years at Sudan and Nyle Field, who is in his second year with the program.
This year’s Nettes squad boast three seniors in Addison Boehning, Liz Sital and Sydney Cornelius and seven juniors including, Stevi Lockhart, Gracyn Shultz, Braelyn Pointer, Riley Edens, Landree Gonzales, Kambry Tolbert and Elaine Martinez.
“We returned 10 varsity players from a year ago,” Coach Lockhart said.
The Nettes were ousted in the Regional Semi-Finals by Wellington.
The Coach talked about his team has made strides from last year to this year, saying, “We are growing up and the kids are executing at a higher level.”
Coach Lockhart talked about who his leaders are, saying, “We have a real solid team and we expect every girl to do her job for her teammates.”
He said he feels their strengths this year is their length and their experience.
“We are very active with our hands and we can score the basketball,” he said. “Some things we need to work on however, is being better in our transition defense.”
Coach Lockhart talked about their season to this point, saying he feels they are a solid team.
“We’ve played a monster schedule,” he stated.
He discussed his outlook on the district saying, “Plains and Sundown returned most of their team from last year, so it should be competitive.”
Sudan’s remaining schedule is as follows:
Tuesday, Jan. 18 th at Sundown; Friday, Jan. 21 st home against Morton; Tuesday, Jan. 25 th home against Seagraves; Friday, Jan. 28 th at Plains; Friday, Feb. 4 th home against Sundown and Tuesday, Feb. 8 th at Morton to close out the season.
All contests are scheduled to tipoff at 6:15 p.m.