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By MIKE MATHISON
WELLSBURG -- The Brooke girls' basketball team has 18 in uniform with 16 underclassmen.
Seniors Madison Reynolds and Gabby Velegol will lead the way for head coach Ryan Scherich.
Juniors Marissa Elliott, Grace Dodson, Aleigha Edgar and Kylie Byers will also add experience to the lineup.
Velegol is a three-year letter winner and Elliott a two-year letter winner. Both will start.
Reynolds and Dodson (both two-year letter winners) and Edgar and Byers (one year each) are vying for the other three starting positions.
Five sophomores dot the roster in Chloe Fox, Kloee Billick, Brittany Burch, Hope Bowman and Chrissy Byers.
Bowman and Byers also earned letters last season.
Rounding out the roster are freshmen Jordan Arca, Ashley Arca, Peyton Reid, Alexandria Palmer, Natalie Ryan, Rachel Kazmirski and Kaitlyn Lahita.
'We are really impressed with the freshmen group," Scherich said. "It's one of the largest and most skilled bunch of young ladies to come to Brooke in a long time. If they keep working hard some of them will see varsity action.
"Overall, the coaches and I are pleased with the work ethic so far."