The Yellowknife Eagles U18 girls basketball team is officially off and running with its tournament season for 2022-23.

Their first port of call was Vancouver for the Remembrance Day Jamboree earlier this month and the ladies won two and dropped two matches. The big win was over the Yukon Arctic Winter Games squad in their final contest on Nov. 13, 34-23.

Head coach Aaron Wells said heSA国际影视传媒檚 quite happy with how things played out.

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The girls played in what was known as the varsity division, a mixture of U17 and U18 teams. They began on Nov. 11 with a game against Junior Elite from Vancouver, which ended in a 42-22 defeat.

Wells said the final score may look lopsided, but it represented a short stretch of futility.

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Next up was Elevate, another Vancouver squad, and that was a 59-40 triumph.

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Game three saw the Eagles drop a 48-30 decision to Lead U17 from Vancouver, a game which Wells said played out much the same as the first one.

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The team wonSA国际影视传媒檛 be back on the road for their next tournament until March, but the next big event for many of the players will be Arctic Winter Games trials coming up in December.

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