The Bee sports guy, Thomas Ayers weighs in on LBHS girls basketball
| If there is one thing that I have realized and seen this year is the LB Girls Basketball team and their senior class. They have four seniors on the team Miette Veldman, Meredith Wells, Taylor Robertson and Kenleigh Gunter. This a great group of seniors when the season started three months ago the Cavaliers got up to a hot start after beating Brookville and Salem but things went down the hill after they lost to Patrick Henry and Abingdon they fell to 2-2 and the knew that they and the rest of the team needed to rise up and get better as a team. And they did! The Cavaliers are now 23-3. They won the Blue Ridge District Regular Season Championship and ended up being the #2 seed in the Region Tournament. They beat Abingdon last week 57-42 and won their 2nd straight Region Championship. Surely there is one senior that has been playing her A game and getting this team to where it needs to be and her name is Miette Veldman. She has been red hot, dominating on the scoreboard. Veldman is a good athlete and so is the rest of her team and on February 7th against William Fleming she had 33 points we all know when she has the ball in her hands. She is hard to defend and stop. She also made history herself on February 14th against Staunton River in the District Semifinals she broke the school record. Veldman has played no excuses basketball. Every other team in Class 3 beware of the Lord Botetourt Cavaliers because they are ready and prepared for what’s coming. Plus, if they keep this up and make it to the championship game which is next Friday at the Siegel Center in Richmond, Virginia and be the new state champs! In December head coach Renee Guilliams Farvo and the Cavaliers put a countdown clock in the locker room and put avenge underneath the clock. So hopefully the Cavaliers will make it to the championship game. It is time put that countdown clock away and become the new 2020 State 3 champs! story by Thomas Ayers, High School Sports Correspondent for The Botetourt Bee photo by Chuck Pound |
