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HAMILTON — The Miami University Hamilton women’s
basketball team is moving along just fine, taking baby steps
into the 2007-08 season.
If it were up to third-year coach Chris Settle, he’d rather
have it that way.
“I think we’ll be a lot better this year,” said Settle,
whose Harriers finished 9-22 last season. “We’ll be all
right. On paper we know who we have. We’ve been taking it
one thing at a time with practices and practice games.”
MUH features a three-headed spear in guards Kim Jenkins,
Kristi Wooten and Bittany Penter.
While Jenkins and Penter, both sophomore guards, will be
doing most of the ball handling for the Harriers, Wooten
will do a lot of the scoring.
Wooten, a junior and former Badin High standout, averaged 15
points a game for Miami-Hamilton last season.
“All three of those girls know what’s going on,” Settle
said. “It’s going to be good stuff seeing them out there on
the court.”
Maria Lorenz (junior), Megan Ellinghausen (freshman), Ronda
Henderson (sophomore), Gwen Bohman (junior) and Stephanie
Gambrell (freshman) are battling it out for the remaining
starting positions.
“I’m trying to decide on a lot of things still,” Settle
said. “You don’t really know until you get out there and do
the real thing.”
Seeing some playing time off the bench for the Harriers are
freshmen Alyssa Ruhl, Zeljka Veljovic, Sable Gray and
Danielle Faulkner.
“Every game is going to be tough,” Settle said. “There
aren’t going to be teams you’ll just walk over against.”
The Harriers kick off the season tonight at Cincinnati State
Technical Community College at 5 p.m.
“We’ll be all right,” Settle said. “It’s been a catch 22 all
preseason because of the girls’ schedules. But we’ve gotten
in some good practices, and we’ll see where that takes us.” |
