After a slow start to last night’s game, the SAINT JAMES GIRLS VARSITY team took at early 6-0 lead and never looked back, defeating St. Tims by 20 points. The first ½ was uninspired. Nevertheless, SAINT JAMES took a 8-5 lead into the halftime break. After scoring 16 consecutive points to start the third (utilizing our full court press ), Saint James rolled into the final period up by 19. Shea led the team with 12 points followed by Jillian’s 10 and Allie’s 4. Shannon and Kaitlyn each added a hoop while Faith hit a free throw to round out the scoring. Sammy led the team with some sharp passing had 4 assists while Allie, Shea, Jillian and Angie had 1 per.

Defensively, Alyssa continued her strong inside play ripping down 9 rebounds. Meanwhile, Jillian used her offensive rebounding skill to create multiple baskets on put-backs (Jillian had 9 offensive rebounds ….10 total boards for the game ). Angie collected 5 boards while Sammy and Shea each had 5 from the guard position. Gabby, Kaitlyn and Faith all grabbed 3 boards while Sarah had 1 to go with 1 steal. Shea continued her thievery, stealing the ball 9 times from St. Tims. Meanwhile, Kaitlyn and Angie had 3 each. Shannon, Allie, Alyssa and Emma had 2 steals each while Gabby, Faith, Sammy each had 1.

Varsity Girls Season record: 10-0

Tonight the Girls will play Corpus Christi at Corpus starting at 6:00pm.

Good luck Sabers!!

Congratulations to our 7th graders for winning yesterday’s Box Tops Contest with over 450 Box Tops!  The teachers will let the students know when there dress down day will be.  Our volunteers counted 2,075 total Box Tops yesterday, with is over $200 for our school.  Please keep sending your box tops!  We will be counting again for the next dress down contest on March 5th.

Mrs. Zorger would like to send a big thank you to all our SJS friends and families for adhering to the morning drop-off/afternoon pick-up policies outlined in her January 2nd email.  We have seen great improvements with the flow of morning drop-off over the last week.