The Salisbury girls basketball team has faced one of the most difficult schedules in the Colonial League early in the season.

The four league games Salisbury has played this season have been against teams with a combined mark of 14-3. Many of the league’s best teams happen to be early on the Salisbury schedule and there are going to be some easier games to come up eventually.

In the last week, Salisbury has faced Palmerton (5-0 Colonial, 7-0 overall) and Southern Lehigh (2-2, 3-2), falling in both games by scores of 46-5 and 41-27, respectively. Squeezed between those two games was a 59-18 win over Lehigh Valley Academy in a nonleague game.

Kendra Morgan scored a game-high 24 points for the Falcons and was rested in the fourth quarter of the win. Desiree Nales chipped in with 13 for Salisbury in the win. Morgan’s 24 points were a career-high, eclipsing her mark of 16 points in a game scored last January against Wilson.

In the three games last week, Morgan averaged 11 points per game and Nales has averaged 8.3 points per game for the Falcons.

Monday night, Salisbury hosted Southern Lehigh with Morgan and Nales again leading the way with eight points each.

Salisbury has just one game before the holiday break when it hosts Moravian Academy (2-4, 2-4) Wednesday.

In the new year, the Falcons have a slightly easier schedule but with a couple of tough games in the mix as well. Of their first five games on the 2024 calendar all five are league games with two of those games being at home. The schedule opens at Northern Lehigh (0-3, 1-4) and then goes right back into the fire with a game at Notre Dame of Green Pond (5-0, 6-0). Pen Argyl (3-2, 4-2), Bangor (3-2, 5-3), and Wilson (1-5, 2-6) complete the run of league games with Pen Argyl and Wilson having to come to Salisbury for their games.