As Catonsville girls basketball coach Mike Mohler looks at his team's future, he sees the past. Year after year, the Comets rank among the best teams in the metro area.

Catonsville won Baltimore County championships three years in a row (2008-2010), lost in the county final in 2012 and went 20-4 last year.

Mohler considers the 2013 Comets, anchored by the only two seniors on the 14-player roster, point guard Breya Wallace and forward Taylor Barton, in the class of those outstanding teams.

Catonsville is off to a 5-1 start.

"I love this team," said Mohler, who is in his 20th year as coach. "I really do. This team can be something special."

Catonsville used 10 players in a 35-30 victory over North Harford on Dec. 27 in the BBOWS Holly & Hoops Holiday Basketball Tournament.

That type of depth allows the Comets to run a tenacious press, which is one of the signatures of Mohler's teams.

In six games this season, they have yielded more than 30 points only twice.

The teams that managed to do it, Patterson Mill and Seton Keough, are ranked among the top 15 teams in The Baltimore Sun girls high school basketball poll.

"That's not bad at all," Mohler said of the points allowed in the team's first six games. "Our goal is 30 (or less)."

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Catonsville girls basketball shows promise for another strong season