GREENWICH — Twenty six games played turned into 26 victories. The average margin of victory for the Greenwich girls’ basketball team is just a tick shy of 40 points per game.
The Witches captured the Section II Class CC championship, avenged a 2022 Class C title loss against Duanesburg by beating the Eagles in the CC/C playoff and posted regional wins against Northeastern Clinton and Canton to advance to the state final four at Hudson Valley Community College.
Greenwich’s seventh sectional title and first state playoff appearance since 1994, however, has not gone completely smoothly. Adrianna Rojas, a standout junior guard who recently surpassed the 1,000-point plateau for her career, suffered a season-ending knee injury after tearing her anterior cruciate ligament at the start of sectional play. Subtracting a player of Rojas’ ability as both a player and leader is certainly significant, but the Witches have responded by producing some superlative basketball during their playoff run.
“I have been very pleased. They easily could have hung their heads and been, ‘Oh geez, what are we going to do now?’ They obviously haven’t,” Greenwich coach Jason Slater said. “They have a refuse-to-lose attitude. They know no one was going to feel sorry for us just because she went down. Everybody else has to step up and who is ready to step up and play a bigger role.”
“Her out is hard not to have, but we all need to step up and play our roles,” Greenwich freshman guard Brooke Kuzmich said. “I think it helps us (knowing we are) playing for her. She is a big factor to what we do scoring and rebounding, so everybody realized that we all had to step up and execute.”
“I am really proud of us. We’ve had certain players step up and make more contributions than in the past when ‘Nana’ was there,” Norah Niesz said. “I am excited we have made it this far and we hope to continue…
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