Pair of wins fuels English Valleys girls as they improve to 6-2 overall

NORTH ENGLISH – The wins are starting to stack up for the Bears. 

A little bit of hibernation over the holiday break didn’t seem to slow down English Valleys too much as they started off the second month of the season with back-to-back wins. 

On Jan. 3 the Bears were able to gain a 42-30 victory over HLV. 

In that game the Bears trailed by four after the first quarter, but a 13-point second quarter helped give them the lead. 

The Bears outscored HLV in both second half quarters to gain the 12-point victory. Ava Gehrking scored 18 points to lead the Bears. Addison Achanebach added 10 points. Anna Luers would finish with six points. 

Kailor Lown scored four points. Both Aubrey Achenbach and Kaylynn Caster finished with two points each. 

On Saturday the Bears traveled south to play Danville in an out-of-conference game. In that contest English Valleys had doubled up Danville 32-16 at halftime. 

Although the Danville Bears scored 19 points in the second half, the English Valleys Bears were able to score 22 points to secure the lead. 

Luers led English Valleys on Saturday with 19 points. Addison Achenbach would score 12 points. Gehrking finished with nine points.  

Caster added seven points while Lown would add four more.

Mallory Koehn would finish with three points.

Overall English Valleys stands at 6-2 on the season. They will hosted BGM on Tuesday night. Thursday and Friday they play at Highland (7-3) and Lynnville against Lynnville-Sully (8-3).