DANVILLE — With only a few players returning for last season, Danville Area Community College women’s basketball team coach Kyle Bent is working on chemistry this season.

“It is a new slate and I have taken a different approach,” Bent said. “I am teaching them how to play more than teaching them a bunch of plays. It is frustrating for them because they don’t see the instant satisfaction of point A to point B. I think it is going to pay off, we might take some bumps early, but eventually learning how to play will work better than learning some quick moves. We are a different group and we are deeper at the guard.”

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