COLUMBUS — Maleeya Brammer and her twin sister, Makayla, have grown a little more used to change. As part of a military family, the Brammer girls have been in four different high schools in just three years. The juniors are hoping that their most recent school, Northern Burlington High, will be their final stop until graduation. But there will still be change. Not only are there new friends to be made, there is a varsity basketball team, which they are hoping to find its direction. Despite having plenty of talent, the Greyhounds have struggled to fully connect in their first two games this season. The latest was Friday when they dropped a 61-45 contest to Burlington County Scholastic League Patriot Division rival Pennsauken at their Garwood Sports Complex. “We just have to get used to playing with each other,” Maleeya Brammer said of her latest team. “Individually, we’re all good. It’s a matter of trusting one another and not fouling as much.” The Brammers played at Gulf Breeze High – about a half-hour from Pensacola, Fla. – where the Dolphins had a fine season a year ago. “This is definitely different than in Florida,” Maleeya Brammer said, “but there we had a lot bigger bench.” These two starters have added much needed depth to head coach Ed Fitzpatrick’s team, which did not have as many returnees as originally expected this year. But Northern still has the talented senior backcourt of Jill Watson and Karina Harrison, both of whom have a chance to score 1,000 points this season, and 5-foot-9 senior forward Olivia Fryc playing alongside the Brammers, who are close to six-feet tall. Around these parts, that combination will win you a lot of games. The Greyhounds just are not there yet. The Indians, however, did seem to be. Playing their first game of 2024-25, Pennsauken put four players in double figures to break open a contest that it led, 13-10, after the squads had five lead changes and five ties in the first quarter. The second quarter was a little different, yet the Greyhounds still pulled to within a point twice before the Indians closed the half with a 10-2 burst over the final two minutes to take a 30-21 lead. “We’re just not hitting on ally cylinders right now,” Fitzpatrick said. “And fouls have hurt us two games in a row. That’s not to take anything away from (the Indians). They outplayed us.” Maleeya Brammer, who led Northern Burlington with 14 points and 10 rebounds yesterday, understands that. She picked up three fouls in the first half, her fourth three minutes into the third, and her fifth with 3:39 left in the game when the home team had cut a 20-point deficit down to 52-41. “We need to work on not fouling,” Brammer said. “It looked like Pennsauken’s players have probably played together longer than us.” The Greyhounds still got 12 points from Watson and saw seven players reach the scorer’s column. Meanwhile, the Indians, who were part of a three-way tie for the division crown with Northern and Pemberton a year ago, got 19 points and 12 rebounds from Sianni Hill, 15 points from Hadley Rodriguez, 13 points from point guard Kimora Truitt and 10 more points from Mayeline Rodriguez. The change will come for the Brammers, Fitzpatrick and the rest of the Greyhounds. It will just take a little time. PENNSAUKEN (61) Truitt 3-6-13, MRodriguez 4-2-10, Hill 8-3-19, Byrd Street 0-0-0, Allen 2-0-4, HRodriguez 4-5-15, Mateo 0-0-0. Totals — 21-16-61. NORTHERN BURLINGTON (45) Watson 5-1-12, Harrison 1-0-2, Fryc 1-2-4, Mixon 0-0-0, Farraj 1-2-4, Ramaswamy 0-0-0, MkBrammer 2-0-5, MlBrammer 4-6-14, Rosario 1-1-4, ZJones 0-0-0. Totals — 15-12-45. Pennsauken (1-0)                        13    17    20    11    —    61 No. Burlington (0-2)                     10    11    13    11    —    45 3-point goals — Truitt, HRodriguez 2 (P), Watson, MkBrammer, Rosario (NB).