As the rest of the school prepared for a return to school, the Girls Varsity Basketball team opened the new year with a thrilling 47-45 victory over the traveling Sandvika Basketball club of Norway on Monday afternoon at the BAC. Kai Clemons led the way with 17 points, scoring the game winner with 6.4 seconds left. Shannon Rhone added 15 points, while Jenna Berens added 7 points, 11 rebounds, 4 blocks, and 5 steals for the Hornets. 
        The girls improved to 3-5 on the season, having come up short up against several bigger WNEPSAA squads to start the campaign, and finishing 1-2 in the annual Kingswood-Oxford Invitational at the start of winter break. They face a grueling four straight Fairchester games on the road in the coming two weeks, but the relatively young squad has quickly matured and begun to create a true team identity under the outstanding tutelage of Coach Megan Borelli and her staff.