PLATTSBURGH — The Moriah girls got off to a fast start and Schroon Lake/Newcomb didn’t in Wednesday’s Section VII Champions Challenge at Clinton Community College.
The Section VII Class C-winning Vikings grabbed a 20-3 lead after one quarter and never looked back in a 57-42 win over the Class D champions.
Emmy Nephew scored 16 points, including four 3-pointers, in the first half, and her eight points in the first quarter helped Moriah take a 17-point lead after one.
The biggest lead in the game for the Vikings was 28-5 early in the second quarter before Moriah settled for a 32-16 advantage at the half.
The Wild Huskies couldn’t cut into the deficit in the third quarter as Lexi Cheney scored 10 of the 13 Vikings’ points in the stanza.
The big lead early in the contest allowed the Vikings to substitute players in the rest of the way, and SL/N was able to get as close as 13 points, 49-36, in the fourth.
Nephew hit five 3-pointers in all and finished with a team-high 19 points. Cheney added 12, while Maggie Speshock connected on two 3-pointers and chipped in with eight points. The Vikings had eight of their players get into the scoring column.
Olivia Hartwell scored 19 points, including 10 of her 15 second-half points, in the fourth quarter. Carly Smith had seven of SL/N’s 16 points in the first half and finished with 14 as she and Hartwell combined for 33 of the Wild Huskies’ 42 points.
Moriah hit both its free throws, while SL/N had a difficult time from the line, going 11of-27.
The Vikings return to the court at CCC Wednesday at 5 p.m. against Section X Class C champion Lisbon in NYSPHSAA sub-regional play.
SL/N, meanwhile, will be at Averill Park High School on Tuesday at 6 p.m. for a NYPHSAA Class D sub-regional against the Section II winner.
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Moriah 57, SL/N 42
SL/N (42)
Whitley 0-0-0, Fernandez 0-0-0, Thompson 0-0-0, Hlavaty 0-0-0, Armstrong 1-0-2, Hartwell 6-4-19, Smith 3-7-14, Caza 1-0-3, Larabee 1-0-2, Bush 1-0-2. Totals- 13-11-42.
Moriah (57)
Courtright 2-0-4, H. Slattery 1-0-3, Gaddor 1-0-2, Harrington 1-2-4, Sargent 0-0-0, Mascarenas 2-0-5, Nephew 7-0-19, Brassard 0-0-0, Vargo 0-0-0, Cheney 6-0-12, Winters 0-0-0, Speshock 3-0-8, I. Slattery 0-0-0. Totals- 23-2-57.
Halftime- Moriah, 32-16,
3-point goals- SL/N (5) Hartwell 3, Smith, Caza. Moriah (9) Nephew 5, Speshock 2, H. Slattery, Mascarenas.