Basketball opponents rarely solve puzzle Welles creates
January 30, 2011
by
Don Ketchum,
AZPreps365
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By Don Ketchum
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Johnishia Welles is a brain. She takes honors classes at Phoenix Barry Goldwater High and likes to play Sudoku, the numbers grid puzzle that appears in many newspapers. "="">
She can solve the puzzle that many others can’t.
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On the basketball floor, Welles has some numbers that opponents can’t seem to solve, either.
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Through the Bulldogs’ first 19 games, the 5-foot-10 senior post player was averaging 24.6 points and 15.2 rebounds per game, according to MaxPreps. She scored a career-high 41 points in a game earlier this season and had 26 rebounds in a game, and has surpassed the 1,000-point mark for her career.
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“She is playing very well and we are playing very well as a team,’’ said Barry Goldwater coach Stacy Spencer, whose team was 15-4 entering its game against Glendale Deer Valley on Friday night (Jan. 28).
