Calvin Christian goes on the road to defeat Kalamazoo Christian 50 – 39 to start the season 2 – 0. Kalamazoo Christian started out with a 11- 8 first quarter lead and built a 8 point advantage before Calvin Christian responded with a barrage of threes and finished the second quarter with a 24 -22 lead at half time. The Squires played excellent team defense and unselfish basketball in the third quarter to jump out to a 36 – 29 lead heading into the fourth quarter. The lead continued to grow in the fourth quarter with excellent team play and while giving up some late buckets Calvin Christian finished it off with a 50 -39 win. Senior Macy Verbeek played 31 minutes and finished with 16 points. Junior Karsen Balmer had a strong all around game and finished with 13 while Freshman Addy Rhodes had 8. All 11 players played in the game and contributing to the scoring were Ella Walcott with 5, Leila Nelson with 3, both Ashley Houtsma and Grace Walcott had 2 and Claire Boomstra finished with one.

Next up we will be playing West Michigan Christian on Tuesday 12/6 in our first home game. West Michigan Christian is lead by first year varsity coach and Calvin Christian Alum Sarah Koetsier. JV at 5:30 and Varsity is at 7 PM. Come on out and support the girls’ basketball teams on Tuesday!