Balla wants Trojans to get off to fast start
California无毛视频檚 Hunter Assad makes a leaping pass between two Monessen during a game last season.
Aaron Balla (right) enters his fourth season as coach of the Trojans.
Fourth-year California boys basketball coach Aaron Balla wants his team to hit the ground running this season.
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The Trojans host Propel Montour Dec. 10 in their tip-off opener, before moving into Section 4-AA play against Bentworth, Carmichaels, Frazier, Jefferson-Morgan and Monessen.
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The Trojans return a pair of starters: senior wing Cory Frick, who enters his third year as a starter, and senior guard Hunter Assad, a two-year starter.
The other three starting positions are up for grabs, and Balla mentioned nine players who are vying for those positions or key minutes off the bench.
Guard Drew Thomas and forwards Fred Conrad, Damani Stafford and Mason Sholock, all seniors, junior guards Dom Martini and Caden Powell, junior wing Aiden Lowden, sophomore wing Noah Neal and freshman guard Vinny Manzella make up the group trying to impress Balla and his staff to earn starts or minutes off the bench.
Balla noted what the Trojans need to accomplish for a solid season.
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