Strong JV team, young varsity delays freshman team elimination consequences for girls hoops

Fallbrook High School’s 2011-12 girls varsity basketball team had only two seniors. Fallbrook’s junior varsity team, which shared the Avocado East League championship and achieved a 20-4 record, was comprised of seven freshmen and seven sophomores.

The short-term impact of the elimination of freshman basketball at Fallbrook High School is thus who varsity coach Dan Bachman will have on his 2012-13 team and who will spend another year with JV coach Tony Morrow. The long-term consequences of the freshman program being eliminated are still unknown.

“The overall impact isn’t known yet because Tony started quite a few freshmen at the JV level,” Bachman said.

Morrow’s starters consisted of three freshmen and two sophomores. Bachman noted that the total of seven freshmen overall likely would have dropped freshman girls basketball for 2011-12 even if the school district’s budget hadn’t eliminated it first.

“I wouldn’t have the numbers to carry a frosh team,” Bachman said.

Bachman said that the issue of who to carry on the 2012-13 varsity would be made at the beginning of that season while the issue of the junior varsity roster should enough ninth-graders for a freshmen team seek positions on the combined frosh/JV team would be addressed when that situation occurs.

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