Girls Basketball: Briar Woods Falls to George Mason; Bell Has Surgery and is Out the Rest of the Season

Ashburn (Jan. 7, 2010) - The Briar Woods High School girls basketball program has had better days as the Falcons dropped a non-district contest to George Mason Wednesday, 54-32, and earlier in the day NCAA Division I-bound senior Kim Bell had surgery on her injured knee and Briar Woods coach Dave Morris says the official word is that Bell will not return this season.

Bell, who has signed to play at Utah Valley, was averaging 22.0 points per game in the first four games of the year. Briar Woods was 3-1 with Bell -- who reached the 1,000-point career mark in the first week of the season -- and has gone 1-5 since.

In other girls basketball injury news, Heritage has been playing without top player Necole Sterling for nearly a month but the Pride hope to have her back on the court next week.