The N.C. State women’s basketball team finished its fall schedule Nov. 10 with a quarterfinal finish in the East Coast Women’s Club Basketball Regional Tournament in Maryland.

The Wolfpack plays in the East Coast Women’s Club Basketball League, which includes 32 teams along the Atlantic coast, such as Duke, UNC-Chapel Hill and Maryland.

While some teams play regular inter-league games, the club members decided to participate in occasional scrimmages to emphasize tournament play.

The team competed in four tournaments this season: two round-robin style events at Wake Forest and Duke and two tournament-style contests at Virginia Tech and Maryland.

Despite a second-place finish at Virginia Tech, freshman guard Chandler Young said that the Pack’s most impressive tournament result was at Duke.

State finished 2-2 in the Duke tournament on Nov. 2, beating the Blue Devils once. Though the result was not spectacular record-wise, the Pack sometimes played with six players on the depth chart.

“I feel best about our tournament at Duke,” Young said. “We played teams that we had played before that were pretty difficult for us to beat, and we found ways to pull through.”

In State’s most recent event, the national tournament in Maryland, the Wolfpack beat its first two teams in blowout victories, including its first game against Rutgers.

However, William & Mary stopped the Pack in the quarterfinals. Despite being overmatched, Young said that the players gave all they had throughout the whole game.

“We played really well as a team,” Young said. “We’re the type of team that keeps playing until the final buzzer.”

Many of the team’s key players from last season are no longer with the team due to various reasons, such as graduation or study abroad.

Team captain junior Meredith Check said that in spite of the losses, many players are making the extra effort to fill the roles, especially senior Sabra Bryant and sophomore Alexandria Wood.

“[Bryant] is really stepping up,” Check said. “She really cares about the team. [Wood] has also really stepped up; she’s really important to our fundamental offense.”

Team chemistry is a huge part of State’s success in its tournaments this season.

Bryant, who was been on the club team for four years, said that this team was clicking better than any other team on which she had played.

“This year has been awesome because everyone has clicked right off the bat,” Bryant said. “We have a lot of really good personalities.”

Though Bryant, Check and Young all said that the chemistry mostly comes naturally, the members of the team plan activities together to become ever more familiar with one another.

“We really encourage people before and after practice,” Bryant said. “We go to football and basketball games together, but the biggest bonding time is when we travel for our tournaments.”

The spring semester holds more events for the Pack, including the ACIS National Championship, hosted annually by N.C. State. Last season, the team made it to the second round, but the players hope to advance further in the brackets this April.

Tryouts for the team re-open in January, and Check said that she encourages all interested girls to show up.

“We’ll always welcome anyone who wants to try out,” Check said.