Norwich Free Academy seniors Emily Orcutt and Brooke Stringer have never played a high school basketball game in the Mohegan Sun Arena. The Wildcats duo were seventh graders when NFA won the 2020 Eastern Connecticut Conference tournament championship with a victory over Bacon Academy at the Sun during Courtney Gomez’s first year at the helm.

With the first full week of the new year behind us, here are the Players of the Week, picked by the NJ Advance Media staff, for Friday, Jan. 10, which encompasses games from Jan. 1 to Jan. 8.

The Tillamook girls basketball season is over, as some players allege verbal and emotional abuse from their coach. A district investigation did not support those claims.