For at least 20 years, the girls’ basketball teams in Chenango County have boldly stated their merit on the floor as top-notch representatives of the game. Five teams this season finished with 14 or more wins and winning percentages better than 70 percent. Three teams won division titles, one claimed a league championship, two players were chosen to a team that selects only the best of Section IV...and there is more.

– Three-time All-Evening Sun All-Star, Hannah Runyon of Norwich, was named Section IV’s Class A Player of the Year, the first Norwich girl to earn that distinction.

– Tanya Barnes of G-MU surpassed 1,000 career points, just the third Raiders player to pass that total.

– Oxford’s Haley Witchella also crossed 1,000 career points, and her career mirrors Barnes’, although the style each plays is much different.

– Sherburne-Earlville seniors Caitlynn Adams and Bridget Irwin had large hands in the best three-year run of basketball success in the program’s history. The duo played on back-to-back league champions, and won 48 games over the past three years, more than any other local team.

As we did last year, we broke down our all-stars into a first and second team. We can safely conclude that every athlete on our all-star team was either an all-division or all-conference player in their own league.

On our squad are returning first-team all-stars Runyon, Witchella, Adams, and Irwin. Barnes and Bainbridge-Guilford’s Randi Conway make the jump from second team to first team.