Returning letter winners for Lakota varsity girls basketball (from left): Morgan Gangwer (45), Morgan Mowry (24) and Katie Park (31). (Photo: Enoch Wu/Sentinel-Tribune)

LAKOTAHead coach: Mike Miller, third season2012-13 overall record: 4-18.2012-13
Midland Athletic League record: 1-9.Returning letter winners: Morgan Mowry, senior, 5-11, forward; Katie
Park, junior, 5-11, forward; and Morgan Gangwer, junior, 5-7, guard/forward.Strengths: Aggressive defense,
team speedKeys to the season: Defense, rebounding, getting out of the fast breakOutlook: The Raiders return
Park, an honorable mention All-MAL selection who averaged 8.0 points per game last season.Lakota averaged
31.8 points per game offensively last season, but gave up 54. The Raiders look to improve on both."We
shot 28 percent for the year. We have to get easier looks at the basket. That’s what I’m hoping with our
defense and getting out on the break, we will get easier scores," Miller said. "And they did a lot
of hard work shooting this summer … If we just keep working on our shooting and get that up to about 40
percent, we’ll be in good shape."We got a whole lot faster, plain and simple. We can move a whole lot
better and we can cover people, so I’m hoping that will make a difference," Miller added.Lakota also
looks to improve upon last year’s 10th-place finish in the MAL."We have some really tough teams towards
the top of the league and it’s probably going to take us a little while before we mesh and gel," Miller
said. "Realistically, we’re probably not winning the league but, then we want to make a strong
tournament run. That’s always my biggest goal is the tournament run."

North Baltimore girls basketball returning letterman (back row from left) Lacey Trumbull, Olivia Frost, Morgan Schloemp, Lindsay Davis, (front row from left) Mackenzie Stewart, Raegan Fleckner, and Cheyenne Hernandez. (Photo: Shane Hughes/Sentinel-Tribune)

NORTH BALTIMOREHead coach: Greg
Frost, sixth season.2012-13 overall record: 9-14.2012-13 Midland Athletic League record: 3-7.Returning
letter winners: Mackenzie Stewart, senior, 5-3, guard; Morgan Schloemp, senior, 5-7, guard; Lindsay Davis,
junior, 5-9, forward; Raegan Fleckner, junior, 5-3, guard; Lacey Trumbull, sophomore, 5-6, forward; Olivia
Frost, sophomore, 5-9, forward; and Cheyenne Hernandez, sophomore, 5-3, guard.Strengths: Team chemistry,
heart and depth.Keys to the season: Strong, defense, generating offense from the defense, and consistent
scoring.Outlook: "We are going to have to be strong defensively," coach Frost said. "We are
going to have to (score) by committee. We have no one besides Olivia (Frost) coming back who has averaged
more than four points per game. We are going to have to generate some offense from our defense if we want to
stay in games. Our kids can score, they’ve proven that, they’ve proven that in the offseason and in the
early goings here, but it’s different when the games start."We have a goal of trying to win every game
we play, but we aren’t arrogant enough to believe that we’re going to win every game," coach Frost
added. "Our goal is to improve each and every day, each and every game."

Returning letter winners for Northwood varsity girls basketball (from left): Alex Rable (13), Kristin Sawmiller (15), Doma Cruz (03), Philysity Wojcinski (12) and Dara Artino (32). (Photo: Enoch Wu/Sentinel-Tribune)

NORTHWOODHead coach: Bill Hamilton, third season.2012-13 overall record:
7-16.2012-13 Toledo Area Athletic Conference record: 5-9.Returning letter winners: Dona Cruz, senior, guard;
Lissy Wojcinski, junior forward; Alex Rable, sophomore, guard; Kristin Sawmiller, sophomore forward; and
Dara Artino, sophomore, guard.Strengths: Work ethic, aggressiveness.Keys to the season: The Rangers averaged
just 26.4 points per game last season, while allowing 46.6."We’ve been in the gym a lot this
summer," Hamilton said. "We are working hard out on the floor to make that a better thing for us.
When I say aggressiveness, there is just going to be a different type of play. The kids are excited about
what they can do. They really believe in their hearts that they can be more aggressive defensively than they
were in the past,"Our goal is to win this year. We know last year that we struggled and we don’t want
that same thing to weigh us down. They have definitely set the goal to win and be better than .500."