Geneva’s girls basketball team seems to have done it all in its first dozen games this season.

Blowouts? The Vikings opened the season with a 77-31 victory over Antioch and later whipped Elgin 82-18.

Thrillers? The Vikings nipped Benet 53-49 and Wheaton Warrenville South 50-46 on back-to-back nights at the Naperville North/Benet Holiday Tournament on Dec. 16 and 17.

Heartbreakers? The Vikings experienced those, too, with a 59-57 loss to St. Charles North and a 66-65 setback to Springfield.

The Vikings, who won nine of their first 12 games, are a pretty good team, but they are hoping to kick it up a notch in order to match the 2008-09 run in which they took fourth in the state in Class 4A and finished 32-2. The team finished 31-1 last season.

Geneva already has as many losses this year as the past two seasons combined, but the Vikings are still looking forward to another huge season.

“Basically for us, this has been a learning process,” junior Ashley Santos said. “We take everything we learn from each game and use it the next time.”

Kat Yelle, Brooke Binette, Sammy Scofield and Katelyn Allen were on the roster when the Vikings went downstate. Yelle was a starter on that team.

Other Vikings on this year’s squad include seniors Kelsey Pease, Alison Connolly, Dori Rogers and Andrea Connolly, juniors Rachel Hinchman, Stephanie Sharpe and Stevie Fanale and sophomore Sami Pawlak. Freshman Sidney Santos was expected to contribute, but she tore the ACL in her right knee the first day of practice.