Senior standout Moll leading Perryville girls to unprecedented heights

In a back-and-forth affair with De Soto, Perryville girls basketball needed a senior-night spark to get past a Dragons squad on a relentless offensive tear.

With just seconds remaining on the clock, senior Brooklyn Moll went cross-body and laid in the game-winning bucket over a defender.

Those two points made for 38 on the night for the extraordinary veteran forward as she made sure to put away the visitors to cap off an outstanding night on home court.

“I just told her, ‘You're the senior,” Pirates coach Jason Dreyer said. “You're gonna have to take us win here. We're gonna finish this game off.’ I believe she had 13 points in the fourth quarter alone, so we kind of just stuck her down low.

“They didn't really have a good match for her down low with her length, so we kind of stuck her down low and she was finishing around the basket.”

While the 38-point mark is exceptional no matter which way you spin it, it’s just yet another night on a long list of fantastic nights for the point forward.

Averaging 16.5 points per game for the Pirates this season, Moll is no stranger to getting north of 20 points in a night.

While 38 points notched a new career-high scoring total, Dreyer issued an affirmation that the talented senior has been a leader in all facets this season.

“She’s the only senior that we have in the program,” Dreyer said. “She's really the only returner that had much varsity experience. So, coming into the year, she'd played with the girls above her for the last three years.

“She's kind of had a different role. We challenged her during this offseason to go from just being a role player to being a leader, and she has really stepped up.”

For a Perryville team nearing 10 games above .500 on the season, Moll’s length has become a disruptive fixture for Pirate opponents all season.

Listed at 5-foot-10, Moll has managed a great reputation on the back side of the ball.

Racking up five steals against De Soto and becoming a vertical threat in the paint, she’s got a penchant for the basketball and it often leads to points on the other end.

Against the Dragons, it showed clear as day as Moll used her verticality, and her adept 3-point prowess, to pick apart De Soto for over 66 percent of Perryville’s points in the win.

With Dreyer challenging her to step up as a leader, Moll has led by example as the wins just keep on rolling in for this talented Perryville team.

That leadership has helped the team come together, turning heads from all around the area as Perryville continues to make a name for itself on the hardwood.

“She has exceeded my expectations of what I thought she was going to be able to do as a leader,” Dreyer said. “She's brought the whole team along with her.

“She's been a really good example, on and off the court, about what it's like to be a good teammate.”