The (10-6) AHSTW Girl’s Basketball Team was riding a five-game winning before falling to top ranked St. Albert on Tuesday night 41-31. The season started off slow for Head Coach Jason McCall and the Lady Vikes with an 0-2 record and a 27-point loss to CAM. Since then, AHSTW has had all of their starters healthy and playing with awareness on the court that was not there a month ago.

A large help to this refreshed Lady Vikes team is the consistent scoring and post play from senior Delaney Goshorn. At around 13 points a game and 88 rebounds, Goshorn is the leading scorer and rebounder for AHSTW. She’s also embraced the role of being a gritty low post defender and facilitating the offense.

Next to her in offensive production with 103 points is senior Ella Langer. Not only is she the second highest scorer on the team but leads in steals as well. Coach McCall remarked that Langer’s ability on defense has matured making her a tough player to score against.

Now the Lady Vikes are looking directly at two tough upcoming Western Iowa road games. Thursday’s game will be against a solid (9-8) Riverside team and then on Friday AHSTW faces the top team in the WIC a (12-4) Treynor squad who has won their last three contests. Coach McCall knows the competition level for these two matchups will be high and he has confidence his team can match.

KJAN will bring you the coverage of Thursday’s matchup between the Lady Vikes and the Bulldogs with the pregame show starting at 5:50 p.m.