Three bad weeks – a blip, the exception that proves the rule.
West Clermont High School’s girls basketball team lost five of eight games between Dec. 19, 2024, and Jan. 13, After starting 7-0, the Wolves were 10-5, before bookending their season with another seven-game winning streak heading into Tuesday’s Division I district tournament game vs. Lakota East.
Five losses are almost half as many as West Clermont had endured the previous two seasons combined, when they went 24-1 and 19-6. The Wolves finished in a three-way tie with Walnut Hills and Milford for third place in the Eastern Cincinnati Conference, all at 12-4. Winton Woods won the ECC, 16-0 in the league and 22-0 overall. League competition prepared his team well for the postseason, veteran coach Jeff Click said.
“The ECC was super strong this season. I would say the strongest it’s been in quite a few years,” Click, in his eighth season at West Clermont after 21 as the head coach at Amelia High School, said. “Winton Woods is a favorite to win (Division II) state and then you have very strong teams in Milford, Walnut Hills, Lebanon, Little Miami, Loveland … basically if you don’t show up to compete or have an off night, you can get beat.”
Lebanon, Milford, Walnut Hills and Winton Woods were the ECC teams to defeat West Clermont; the Wolves’ other loss was to Girls Greater Catholic League school Seton.
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