The varsity girls basketball team lost 57-35 to rival Anderson in a road district match on New Year’s Eve. After back-to-back district titles the past two years, McCallum has found that the UIL district realignment since last season to be a challenge according to sophomore Ruby Airhart. “It was our second [district] loss so, [the realignment has presented] a little problem in our run for district because we want to be district champs again like the past two years, so now it’s going to be a bit difficult to achieve that,” Airhart said. Before the game began, the team was anxious to play, but they remained positive. “We were feeling a little bit like underdogs there because we were at their home and we realized they had a lot of good players, but we were feeling hopeful,” Airhart said. Despite pre-season practice, Airhart said the varsity Knights did not play as well against Anderson as they had hoped to. “Defense was OK,” Airhart said. “We’ve been improving on that for this seaso...