After Early-Season Success, Girls Basketball Hopes to Carry Momentum into Back End of Season

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Tommy Briner

Brooke Highmark is averaging almost 15 points for the Wildcats this season.

The girls basketball team carried a 10-4 record into perhaps their biggest regular season week of the year. 

On Tuesday, the Wildcats obliterated Carnahan by a score of 80-17. Brooke Highmark led all scorers with 21 points, but senior Macey Lottmann contributed 20 of her own, a career high.

On Wednesday, the team defeated Parkway Central by a score of 68-60. The Colts focused on guarding the Wildcats’ two leading scorers, Brooke Highmark and Reilly Brophy. In turn, Westminster’s two seniors came alive. Macey Lottmann topped her career high from the day before with 23 points, and Carsyn Beachy contributed 19 of her own. A game like this shows just how balanced and versatile the Wildcats are; every one of them can shoot the three and they’re all capable of scoring big points on any given night.

The Wildcats are now 12-4 as they head to Parkway North on Friday night to face the team that knocked them out of the playoffs last year. In the District Championship, the Wildcats fell to the Vikings by a score of 56-52. In that game, then-freshman Brooke Highmark scored a team high 14 points. 

This year, the Vikings have a record of 9-4, including a marquee 18-point victory over perennial power Incarnate Word Academy. However, the Vikings fell to Edwardsville by 28 points while the Wildcats lost by just eight. 

This game, like the Parkway Central one, is another test of the Wildcats’ progress.

Tommy Briner
Sixth man Julia Coleman has had an important role in the Wildcats’ success this season.

On the season, the Wildcats are playing the best basketball that the program has played in years. Sophomore standout Brooke Highmark is averaging almost 15 points per game. Her sidekick, Reilly Brophy, averages almost ten, and is shooting 45 percent from three-point range. 

Sixth man and freshman Julia Coleman has been an impressive addition to the team so far this year. Her size and speed is going to be a terrifying combination in the coming years. She averages more than six points per game off the bench. 

Seniors Macey Lottmann and Carsyn Beachy are averaging seven and five points, respectively. Their contributions defensively don’t go unnoticed, either. 

More than halfway through their season, it’s clear that the Wildcats have the firepower to win their District. In their seven-team district, the Wildcats will be vying for the number one seed, but they’ll have to get through the likes of Rockwood Summit and Borgia if they want to capture that elusive District Championship that they haven’t won since 2012.