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Warriors win two,
lose two on the court

Geerts continues
to lead the Northern
Section in scoring

By ERIC LUCERO
Express sports

The Winters Warriors varsity boys basketball team hosted the Dixon Rams on Tuesday, Jan. 14, and suffered a 78-56 non-league game loss. A slow offensive start put the Warriors in a hole they couldn’t get out of.
Skyler Geerts showed why he leads the Northern Section in scoring, putting 26 points on the board to lead the Warriors. John Botro scored 11 points, Henry Nicholson scored five points, Eli Layne and T.J. Anderson each scored four points, Chris Mayes scored three and Keli
Callison scored one point.
The Warriors were on the road on Friday, Jan. 20, as they traveled to Wheatland for a league game and came home with a 49-42 victory. Geerts led the Warriors once again with 23 points. Botro had a big game as well with 16 points. Callison scored eight points and Mayes scored two points for the Warriors.
Winters lost its first league game at Gridley on Tuesday, Jan. 24, by a score of 56-39. Geerts put 18 points on the board, Botro had nine points and Callison had six, while Nicholson, Anderson and Mayes each scored two points.
On Friday, Jan. 27, the Warriors overcame a very slow start to pickup a 43-32 victory over the visiting Sutter Huskies. Winters put just two points on the board in the first period, but turned things around and dominated the second half.
Geerts scored 15 points, Botro had 11, Nicholson scored eight, Mayes scored five and Callison scored four points for the Warriors.
JV team
The Winters JV boys basketball team lost two league games in the past two weeks starting with a close loss at Wheatland on Friday, Jan. 20. Winters kept it close, but suffered a 56-53 loss to the Pirates.
Winters hosted Sutter on Friday, Jan. 27, and lost
62-29 in another Butte View League game. No
individual stats were available and no score was posted for the Warriors’ league game against Gridley on Tuesday, Jan. 24.

Opperman leads girls team to two wins

By ERIC LUCERO
Express sports

Baylee Opperman scored 22 and 21 points in the Lady Warriors’ last two games to help lead Winters to victory over both opponents.
Winters hosted Gridley on Tuesday, Jan. 24, and picked up a 64-48 Butte View League victory over the Bulldogs.
Winters put on a dominating performance in the first half and played solid in the second.
Opperman scored 22 points to lead the Lady Warriors. Maddy Cooper scored 10 points, Jaqui Plasencia scored seven points, Sarah Kimes scored six points and Emma Young scored four points.
On Friday, Jan. 27, the Warriors traveled to Sutter and came home with an impressive 51-38 victory.
Opperman again led the Warriors with 21 points, Kimes scored 11, Ashlynne Neil scored eight and Plasencia scored seven, while Cooper and Young each scored two points for the Lady Warriors.