One of the deeper, more talented girls basketball teams in the west Valley in 2013-14 is expected to be Goodyear Millennium.

The Tigers have most of their players returning from last year’s 23-7 finisher.

They are refining their skills in a Monday and Wednesday summer league hosted by Tolleson High.

The Tigers had a challenge against at scrappy Phoenix Alhambra team. The score was tied at halftime before Millennium put some distance between it and the Lions for the win.

Millennium coach Cory Rojeck rotated as many players as possible in the first half, then had more of a set lineup in the second half.

Millennium won a 10-team tournament, also at Tolleson, at the start of the summer.

“It’s summer, and we are trying to give a lot of different girls a look. At the same time, we want to be competitive,’’ Rojeck said.

Last season, Millennium started one senior, three freshmen and a sophomore in the Division I state tournament that featured several outstanding teams.

“We don’t see nearly as many quality teams during the regular season as we do at state, so it was a big eye-opener for those young players,’’ Rojeck said.

The coach is hoping his team will be better prepared for the tougher competition this winter, so he has scheduled a number of “freedom’’ games (non-sectional) against quality programs such as Phoenix Mountain Pointe, Chandler, Phoenix Xavier Prep and Anthem Boulder Creek.

Two of the team’s players showing improvement this summer are sophomore Takara Wade and sophomore Raina Perez.

The Tigers also feature one of the state’s top all-around athletic players in junior Passionate Amukamara, who can play pretty much anywhere on the floor and be able to have an impact. She is from the athletic west Valley athletic family that produced current New York Giants cornerback Prince Amukamara and Arizona State women’s player Promise Amukamara.

And Rojeck will have a pleasant challenge trying to get playing time for a couple of promising transfer players, sophomore Kim Wimbish from Avondale La Joya and junior Quynne Huggins from Buckeye Youngker.

“We will still be young, but we hopefully will be better,’’ Rojeck said.