If there's a pleasant surprise so far to the girls basketball season, it's that Lake Orion is off to a 4-0 start entering a key OAA Red game against Rochester on Tuesday night.
For the last three years, especially last year, the Dragons pretty much were a two-person show with Bethany Watterworth and Courtney Zott leading the way.
Watterworth is now at Oakland University playing well as a freshman.
Despite the losses of those two and other important seniors, Lake Orion looks as if it will contend for another league title this year.
Alexis Haan scored 20 points a game during the first three games of the year, but Lake Orion has others to step up as well, given the Dragons beat Stoney Creek by 10 points the other day even though Haan didn't score.
There's still a ways to go, but it looks like there might not be much of a letdown at Lake Orion after all this year.