Junior Tenley Davis suffered an aversion fracture of the right ankle and will sidelined for four to six weeks. CHUCK ABRAHAM/photo
The Chesterton girls basketball team has a player on the bench who can stand in for a starter in the case of an injury without too sharp a falloff, provided the injured party is not one of two players.
The Trojans do not, however, have an athletic double for either guard Kenedi Bradley or post player Tenley Davis, a pair of returning All-DAC performers.
But they’ll have to try to compensate in other ways because Davis suffered an aversion fracture of the right ankle in a one-sided Dec. 17 victory at Kankakee Valley, getting her foot tangled with an opponent’s.
Davis said she was told that she would be sidelined for four to six weeks and would not require surgery.
A speedy, high-flying athlete, Davis averages 6.8 points per game and leads the team with 6.9 rebounds. She has committed to play volleyball on scholarship at Loyola University of Chicago.
The first battle of the boards without Davis did not go well in a 63-35 home loss to Valparaiso on Friday night.
“Terrible job on the boards,” Chesterton coach Candy Wilson said. “You can’t stop a team when you give them two, three, four chances. Boy are we going to be working on it. We’re going to be helping them figure a lot of things out. We surely are. These guys have to learn how to play without her, have to learn to hit the boards. We have enough physical kids and big bodies that we should be able to hit the boards too.”
Point guard Kenedi Bradley is the team’s next-leading rebounder with 4.1 per game, followed by forward Isabelle Connors (3.8) and guard Novea Brandon. Senior forward Hailey Geiser (2.7) is the leading rebounder per minutes played on the team with Davis out.
If Davis’ absence is on the high side of the four-to-six-week range, she would be due back right around the time the sectional playoffs start.
For now, the Trojans will try to figure out how to win games.
“We have other kids who are very capable,” Wilson said. “They have to start believing in themselves and stepping up and pushing boundaries, getting better.” Chesterton resumes its schedule Jan. 4 in the Warsaw Holiday Tournament.
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