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Newport Mill Girls Basketball Team One Game Away from Perfect Season

The middle school girls basketball team has already had the best season in the history of the team, and with one more win they could go undefeated.

A few games into the season, Julian Barron started to get the sense that his Middle School girls basketball team was on its way to a potentially special season.

The Tigers had just wrapped up their third straight win to start the year, a 38-22 win against Takoma Park, and stood just one win away from clinching the first winning record during the program’s nine years of existence.

 Prior to this year, Newport Mill had never won more than three games in a season.

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 “After we won that game [against Takoma Park], I said, ‘Look guys, we’ve never won more than three games. If you get one more win, you make history,” recalled Barron, who has coached Newport Mill during each of those nine seasons.

Well, not only did the Tigers secure that one more win, but they haven’t stopped winning since and now stand just one win away from locking up an undefeated season. Newport Mill (6-0) closes out its season Wednesday at Colonel E. Brooke Lee Middle School.

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The Tigers head into the game having won each of the last five games by a double-digit margin, having outscored their opponents by an average of 36-18 during that span.

Five-foot-1 point guard Daisa Harris, who Barron says is an Allen Iverson type scorer that also passes the ball well, leads Newport Mill in scoring (22.8 points per game) and has tallied at least 20 points in five of the Tigers’ first six games. She recorded a season-high 33 points in Newport Mill’s 37-17 win against Silver Spring International Middle School earlier in the year.

Power forward Lyndsay Weiss and shooting guard Jenna Pastel, who has bounced back from a broken arm suffered in an ice skating accident before the season, have combined to average another seven points per game.

Yet Barron views the Tigers as a team fueled by its defense and Newport Mill’s full-court press has created trouble for each of its opponents and has helped lead to easy scores in transition for the Tigers. Barron will be hoping for more of the same Wednesday against Colonel E. Brooke Lee.

 Newport Mill travels to face Colonel E. Brooke Lee today at 3 p.m.

“After the last game, the girls really started to envision a perfect season,” Barron said. “Prior to that, we had just been really taking it one game at a time. But they’ve gotten more excited and more confident throughout the season and have really improved. It would be really special [to finish this out].”

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