Timberland girls basketball team off to torrid start
Timberland's Zion Prioleau, named on of Class AA's top seniors by the SC Basketball Coaches Association, averaged 14.7 points, 4.8 rebounds, 2.6 assists, and 2.8 steals per game in 2024-20225.
By Rob Gantt
Special to the HSSR
ST. STEPHEN - Timberland High School’s girls basketball team has started off the season with a 7-0 record.
Coach Roger Greene’s club recorded a dominant, 61-18 victory at Stratford High School Wednesday, Dec. 10, in a non-region game for the latest victory.
The Lady Wolves wreaked havoc on the defensive end of the floor, their trademark this winter.
“I expect them to play defense first,” said Greene, whose squad shared the region championship last season. “Nothing else we want to do happens if we don’t play defense first. We haven’t played a complete game yet but we have hustled. That hustle completes the easy opportunities that you need to get some momentum and get yourself going.”
Leading Timberland's group of returning starters this season is guard Zion Prioleau, who was named one of Class 2A’s top senior players in the preseason by the South Carolina Basketball Coaches Association. Prioleau has been on the roster since seventh grade and garnered all-state honors as a junior. She averaged 14.7 points, 4.8 rebounds, 2.6 assists and 2.8 steals per game in 2024-25.
Prioleau poured in a game-high 29 points versus Stratford.
China Greene is another sixth-year player in the backcourt for the Lady Wolves. She averaged 9.3 points, 5.6 rebounds and 4.1 steals as a junior. Senior forward Samara Scott, who led the squad in rebounding with 7.3 boards a game as a junior, is in her fourth season on the varsity. She tallied 8.2 points per game as a junior. Scott reached double digits with 10 points in the game against Stratford.
Sophomore wing Kennahdi Murrell is in her third season on varsity and averaged 7.3 points, 5.7 rebounds and 2.8 steals as a freshman.
Step No. 1 in Greene's mind this season is getting through the region slate without a blemish.
“The first thing we’ve got to do is take care of the region,” Greene said. “If we take care of the region, you get home playoff games. You don’t have to travel. You have practice time. We can have walkthroughs before games happen. Getting the home-court advantage is the first step. You’ve got to have steps. You can’t just say I’m going to do all this and not have a plan to get there.”
Timberland’s other wins this season came against C.A. Johnson (61-15), Scott’s Branch (70-25), Cane Bay (44-17), Fort Dorchester (53-35), Cross (68-8) and Lake Marion (59-53).
