With 2024 behind them, here’s where the local girl’s basketball teams are standing as 2025 begins:
Bear River Bruins: While outscoring their twelve opponents in the 2024 segment of this season by 565-467, the Bruins go into the new year with eight wins. After playing their next game this Friday, January 3, against the Nevada Union Miners, the remainder of their games (during the regular season) will be against other members of the Pioneer Valley League.
Chester Volcanos: With a 6-3 record for their games in 2024, the Volcanos will have games against the Princeton Eagles and Dunsmuir Tigers on 1/6 and 1/8, respectively, before playing their first game of the Five Star League season against the Burney Raiders on 1/14.
Colfax Falcons: Led on the offense by seniors Kaia Diederichs (Guard) and Juliette James (Center). The Falcons will carry an 8-5 record, with four wins in their last five games, when they go up against the St. Francis Lancers of Mountain View on 1/4. Then, on 1/10, the team hosts the Wheatland Pirates for the first of twelve Pioneer Valley League games.
Lassen Grizzlies: After starting the season with three wins in their first five games, the team lost four of their next six contests before the holiday season started. This weekend, the Lassen Grizzlies will have three more games - against non-conference opponents - to tune up for the start of their Northern League season.
Loyalton Grizzlies: After posting a 4-6 win-loss record during December, this set of Grizzlies starts the 2025 segment of their season on Wednesday, 1/8, at 6 PM, against the strong (7-2) Quincy Trojans. Led by coach Laurie Petterson and her daughters (Catherine, Eva, and Josie), with notable support from Mollie Griffin, Ellie Weaver, and Hayden Fisher, as well, the team has one more game, traveling on 1/8 to play the Quincy Trojans (who beat the Grizzlies in early December by the score of 48-40), before starting Pioneer League against the Elk Creek Elks on 1/14.
Modoc Braves: Over the course of the second half of December, the Braves won all six of their games, finishing the year with a 9-5 winning record. Then, on New Year’s Day, they faced the 6-7 Enterprise Hornets - a team who shellacked the Braves back in November by a score of 54-20 - and won, in overtime, 44-38.
Nevada Union Miners: The Miners finished 2024 by snapping a six-game losing streak and winning two out of three during a neutral tournament held 12/26-12/28. Starting this Friday, 1/3, when they host the River Valley Falcon of Yuba City, the remainder of the team’s regular season will be against Foothill Valley League members.
Portola Tigers: Being the victor in seven of their first 13 games this season, the Tigers have one more game (against the Oroville Tigers on 1/7) prior to beginning their competition for the Mid-Valley League championship on 1/11 against the Hamilton Braves.
Plumas Charter Warriors: During the 2024 segment of their season, the Warriors won four of their 13 games.This week, at a tournament in Etna from 1/2-1/4, they are slated to play the Butte Valley Bulldogs (Dorris, CA), EtnaLions, and Hoopa Valley Warriors before finishing their regular season against Pioneer League opponents.
Quincy Trojans: With Shelby Nussel, Skylar McCarthy, and Hana Hostetter leading the team, the Trojans will be looking to extend their five-game winning streak when they host the Loyalton Grizzlies next week, on 1/8. Having outscored the Grizzlies, 49-27 and 48-40, in their two earlier contest this season, oddsmakers will give the Trojans the edge while worrying about the reduced margin achieved by the Grizzlies in their second meeting.
Truckee Wolverines: Following a three-week holiday break, next week on 1/8 at 5 PM, the Wolverines will be at home with a 2-4 record when they start Northern-West League play against the 4-3 Sparks Railroaders.