The Colony Courier-Leader (The Colony, Tex.), Vol. 40, No. 47, Ed. 1 Sunday, December 27, 2020 Page: 8 of 8
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The Colony Courier Leader
Sunday, December 27,2020
REVIEW
From PAGE SEVEN
8-5A offensive player of the year, the utility player of the year
and the midfielder of the year - along with a crop of four
players along who combined for 44 goals and 28 assists.
Turn to 2020, and it was not the same offensive fire-
power that The Colony boasted last year and many of
Weddall's teams have featured at both the high school and
club level, yet they found different ways to win, especially
as the season rolled on into the second half of district
play.
Following a 2-2-2 record through the first half of the
8-5A gauntlet, the Cougars went 3-1-1 over the final five
games - the only loss coming to undefeated back-to-back
district champion Lake Dallas - with the final two games
featuring 1-0 victories.
adversity to position themselves for a run at a playoff run. Al-
though The Colony fell short of that goal, the future appears
to be bright for the Lady Cougars.
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BUCKLEY TAKES OVER
VOLLEYBALL PROGRAM
For 21 years, The Colony’s volleyball team had
been used to one voice.
Terri Harrod led the Lady Cougars to 20 playoffs
appearances and the team’s lone appearance
in the state tournament in 2010, but she
has since retired from coaching. That left
big shoes for The Colony to have to fill.
Rachel Buckley was hired as the new
head volleyball coach on April 24, bringing
in a leader with ties to the school district
herself and a wealth of championship experi-
ence on her resume.
Buckley spent the past four years as an assistant at
Hebron, where she also graduated and won a state title, with
one as a volunteer and the next three as an official assistant.
She also played collegiately at North Carolina State until
2014.
Nothing could prepare Buckley for her new role. She
was hired a month into the pandemic and wasn’t allowed to
meet her players in person until June, when the UIL allowed
BOYS BASKETBALL
FINISHES AS DISTRICT RUNNER-UP
Led by 8-5A MVP Keith Miller III, The Colony
boys basketball team placed second in the dis-
trict and the Cougars qualified for the playoffs
for the third consecutive season.
Miller III, who is now catching
footballs for the Colorado Buffaloes’
football team, averaged 16 points, seven
rebounds, three assists, one block and
one steal per game in his final season in a
Cougar uniform.
Tay Mosher, an East Carolina signee,
was a first-team selection after recording 12 points, six
rebounds and two assists per game.
Caden Sclafani, a Chadron State College pledge,
cracked the second team list and provided a glimpse into
the future of The Colony basketball alongside Mosher.
Sclafani averaged six points, three rebounds and one
assist.
Sclafani helped the Cougars to get off to a 14-1 start
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she inherited a roster without a senior and had only a couple 10 - the third consecutive season of at least 20 wins for
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From PAGE SEVEN
more than five minutes of game
time for the Lady Cougars. East led
25-14 at halftime.
Cotto scored 16 points to pace
Cougars to just one field goal in the The Colony, while Williams chipped
second quarter. in eight points.
East’s ability to force turnovers East (12-3, 3-0) received a mon-
and create shot opportunities for ster effort in the paint from senior
its post players near the basket 6-foot-1 forward A’Kasha Davis,
allowed the Lady Raiders to pull She finished with 17 points and at-
away for a 59-40 victory on Tuesday, tempted 11 free throws with seven
During the second and third quar- successful makes Her hard work
ters, East got The Colony to cough near the basket helped the Lady
1 k A 1 Raiders to seize control late in the
up the ball 15 times. As a result, third anort
the Lady Raiders outscored the The Colony continued to battle
Lady Cougars 37-17 over that span - 1 1231
1 - in the fourth quarter despite trail-
of play. . ing by double digits. Cotto and Aa-
After clinging on to a one-point liyah Brown each attempted four
advantage through the first quar- free throws during the game’s final
ter, The Colony (3-8 overall, 1-2 dis- eight minutes. Brown scored five of
trict) was held to a spinning jump her seven points in the fourth quar-
shot by Cotto and a pair of free ter.
throws by Kennedy Shaw in the sec- The Lady Cougars will look to
ond quarter. Cotto’s field goal end- earn their fourth win of the season
ed a scoring drought that spanned Dec. 30 at Princeton.
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East. Eli Williams (14 points), Chadron
State pledge Caden Sclafani (13 points)
and McCutcheon (13 points) also attained
double-digit scoring efforts.
“I always have confidence in our team,”
Mosher said. “Our team is full of shooters.
I just see the work that they put there in
practice.”
It wasn’t just the offense that was click-
ing for The Colony.
Defensively, the Cougars used good
hand positioning to force East into sever-
al off-target shots. Many of those attempts
bounced off the rim and that allowed The
Colony to rebound the ball and get its of-
fense started on the fast-break.
The Cougars didn’t take their foot off the
gas, taking a 30-point lead after Jahyden
Davis made a pair of free throws with 3.5
seconds left in the game.
The Colony is scheduled to return to ac-
tion 2 p.m. Dec. 30 for a district game at
Princeton.
“Our No. 1 goal is a district champion-
ship,” Mosher said. "We haven’t had one
here in a while. I’ve been here on varsity for
three years and haven’t gotten one. That’s a
really, really big goal of mine as well for our
team. After that, we want to get past the
first round of the playoffs.”
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