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Sam Downey

Monday, January 7, 2013

Hard Work, Leadership Drive Scouts to Fast Start

Carter Bass demonstrates traits of Lake Forest High School boys’ basketball team as four seniors average double figure scoring.

An intense desire to improve every day mixed with a strong dose of senior leadership has propelled the Lake Forest High School boys’ basketball team to its best start in four years with a 10-3 record and 6-4 Co-captain Carter Bass is a personification of those qualities. Bass understands Coach Phil LaScala’s charge to the team to strive to play its best basketball toward the end of the season when regional play begins. The Scouts spend each day in practice moving toward that goal. Get local news in a daily email from Patch. It's like getting a free newspaper. Learn more.  “Let’s get better today,” LaScala tells the team at each practice. “If all 13 guys can go out and improve on a daily basis we’ll be OK at the end of the year.” He also …

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