Pohs heads Mullen all-staters

By Neil H. Devlin, Mullen Sports Information Director
Junior is a 1st-teamer; Gallegos, Perez honorable mention.
 
Megan Pohs heads Mullen’s Class 4A all-state selections in girls basketball announced Thursday.

The junior guard, for a second consecutive season, was named to the first team exclusively voted on by coaches. And despite the Mustangs, the 2018-19 champions, advancing to a second consecutive final, they had no others among 4A’s top 10 (first and second teams). Sophomores Gracie Gallegos and Imani Perez were on the honorable-mention list.

Pohs, a starter at point guard since her freshman season, led the Mustangs in scoring at 11.6 points despite a nagging hamstring injury that lasted for nearly a half-season. She also was tops in assists at 2.7. Shooting 41 percent from the field and 39 percent from 3-point range – Pohs also topped the team with 60 3-pointers – she was Mullen’s best against opposing presses.

As for playoffs, Pohs scored 99 points in the four games in the 4A bracket, including 30 in the overtime victory over Berthoud in the final four. She also averaged 11.6 points as a sophomore and it’s 17.2 points in nine postseason games.

“I think she’s the best player in 4A,” head coach Frank Cawley said.

The now 6-3 Perez, a center, is the primary reason the Mustangs have been able to play man-to-man defense the past two seasons, Cawley said, and has backed it up by evolving into arguably 4A’s top inside force. She was third in team scoring (9.3), tops in rebounds (7.6), blocks (1.6) and field-goal percentage (54), and second in assists (2.4).

And Gallegos, a rangy 6-footer, has been assigned by Cawley to regularly defend the opposition’s best players the past two seasons while also developing offensively. She averaged 10.2 points, second on the team, and shot 43 percent from the floor, 39 percent from 3-point range.

Mullen, which had no seniors, has won 40 games the past two seasons and was 20-7 in 2018-19.
In addition, the Mustangs have no in-state losses to 4A teams since December 2017 (the defending 4A champion).

The Mustangs beat Berthoud 64-57 in overtime on March 12 at the Denver Coliseum and would have faced parochial-rival Holy Family two days later, but the pandemic caused by the coronavirus (COVID-19) forced cancellation of the title game.
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