Scoring Is Down, But Falcon Girls Still Trending Up

Much of the Severna Park girls basketball season has been a matter of finding solutions around injuries and illness and figuring out how to put a competitive team on the floor every night.

While the shorthandedness is yet to fully resolve, the formula appears to be set: the Falcons have trouble scoring, so they need to stymie opponents into even less successful scoring.

It might not be pretty, but it’s been effective.

Since a 19-point loss to South River on January 17, the Falcons have strung together four wins in their last five games, two wins apiece sandwiching a low-scoring loss to Broadneck.

Severna Park beat Old Mill 44-27 on January 24 and Severn Run 61-17 four days later, before falling to Broadneck on January 31. They then beat Crofton 34-20 on February 4 and Chesapeake 25-24 on February 7.

The run lifts Severna Park’s overall record to 9-8 on the season and has them moving in the right direction ahead of the region playoffs, which start in late February.

The Falcons have five games left in the regular season: at home to Glen Burnie on February 12, at Arundel on February 14, at North County on February 18, and then finishing up with back-to-back home games against Northeast on February 20 and Allegany on February 21.