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The State High School
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by Dana Anderson
staff reporter History
repeated itself for the 5th time, as the St. Mark's Lady Spartans won the 2000 State Girls
Basketball Championship 43-26 Saturday March 11. The Glasgow Dragons were just another
speed-bump on the Spartans road to success. Coming into the game, St. Mark's was
undefeated in the state of Delaware, but hadn't faced Glasgow this year.
In the first half St. Mark's shot seemed to be cold. They only made 7
out of 27 attempts for 2-pointers, and were winning only by one point at half time, 18-17.
Just 34 seconds into the game, Kristin Hines made a 3-pointer for Glasgow. With a little
over five minutes left in the 1st, Lashanda Simpson fouled Erin Calloway, who was made one
of two from the line. She then scored a bucket off the offensive rebound. With 2:45 on the
clock Mosch fouled Simpson, who made 1 of her 2 free-throws, and increased the score 4-3.
Markeda Hollingsworth then fouled Calloway, who again made a free throw, to tie the score.
Less than half a minute later Simpson made a jumper to pull Glasgow ahead. With less than
a minute to go both Simpson and Lisa Krzywicki made jumpers, and the score after the first
quarter was 8-6 in favor of Glasgow.
Early on in the second quarter Erin Calloway tied the score. Lashanda
Simpson wouldnt tolerate the tie, and made a jumper with an assist from Hollingsworth.
Lindsay Hageman then had a lay-up less than a minute later to knot the score again.
Freshman Markeda Hollingworth then had a lay-up with an assist from Simpson. With a little
less than four and a half minutes left Erin Calloway made a three-pointer, which was
quickly followed by a lay-up from the Dragons Jaleah Brown, and a lay-up by Lindsey
Dyal. Dyal also made a free-throw after being fouled by Calloway. Tracee Mosch made a
two-point shot, and also made a free throw after being fouled by Brown. Two minutes later
Katie Stevenson fouled Lindsay Hageman, and Hageman missed both shots. the score was 16-17
with only nine seconds left in the first half. With 2 seconds to go, Erin Calloway made a
two-point jumper, giving St. Mark's a 18-17 lead. The Spartans would not relinquish the
lead.
In the 3rd quarter, Glasgow could only scrounge a total of five points.
Two by Simpson, and three by Jaleah Brown. St. Mark's was able to accumulate another eight
points. Lindsay Hageman had five, Lisa Krzywicki had two, and Lyndsay Bey had one. The
score at the end of the 3rd quarter was 26-22 in favor of St. Mark's.
The fourth quarter finalized the St. Mark's dream, by securing the
championship trophy. Glasgow scored a total of four points in the 4th quarter, two from
Brown, and two by Hollingsworth. The fourth quarter also brought about the retirement of
Lashanda Simpson, who fouled out of the game with a little less than five minutes to go.
The final score of the game was 43-26.
St. Mark's was led by Erin Calloway, who accumulated 15 points, and was
high scorer in this game. She played 30 of the 32 minutes of the game. Erin also had three
steals and seven total rebounds.
Other high scorers for St. Mark's included Tracee Mosch, and Lindsay
Hageman. Mosch had ten points and was the second highest scorer in the game. She also had
two assists and one steal. Hageman scored nine points and had one assist and three steals.
Lashanda Simpson was the high scorer for Glasgow. She had a total of
nine points before fouling out of the game. Although Glasgow was ahead at the end of the
first quarter, they were not able to hold off the powerful and deep Spartans. Glasgow who
was ranked 10th going into this game, certainly did an excellent job overall, but were no
match for the #1 ranked Spartans, who will certainly be a contender for the
championship next year as well.
Girls
St Marks 43, Glasgow 26
St Marks 43, Glasgow 26
St Marks 6 12 8 17 - 43 Girls
St Marks 43, Glasgow 26
St Marks 6 12 8 17 - 43
Glasgow 8 9 5
4 - 26
ST MARKS (43) - Erin Calloway 6-14 2-4 15, Tracee Mosch 4-7 2-2 10,
Lisa Krzywicki 3-10 1-2 7, Michelle Albanese 0-8 1-2 1, Lindsay Hageman 4-7 0-2 8, Lyndsay
Bey 0-0 1-1 1, Colleen Armstrong 0-0 0-0 0, Christine Armstrong 0-2 0-0 0.
GLASGOW (26) - Kristin Hines 1-5 0-0 3, Jaleah Brown
2-6 2-2 7, Lashanda Simpson 4-8 1-2 9, Katie Stevenson 0-4 0-1 0, Lindsey Dyal 1-4 1-1 3,
Markeda Hollingsworth 2-4 0-0 4.
3 point goals - St Marks 2 (Calloway, Hageman); Glasgow 2 (Hines, Brown)
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| Michelle Albanese (#11) had an off night, but Erin
Calloway (right) led St Marks with 15 points. |
Lindsey Hageman chipped in 9
points and 8 rebounds for the Spartans. |
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| Glasgows Kristin Hines tries to drive through
Albanese |
Junior Tracee Mosch scored 10 points |
The Boys Basketball State High School
Championship
by Marshal
Manlove
staff reporter
For the first time in Delaware high school
basketball history, the AI duPont Tigers have won a state championship.
The Tigers were the clear favorite entering the final game of the year
against the defending champion William Penn Colonials. They were sailing along as one
before needing to hold off a late Colonial surge winning 69-66.
Penn was shut down completely in the first quarter scoring only three points.
They trailed by 11 hitting only one field goal. It took some time before senior Bruce
Davis could finally get his game on track and it seemed like it was going to be too little
when he did.
The Tigers were solid through the first half and took a 37-20 lead into the locker
room. Jamil Moore and Kwana Chase both scored 10 first half points as the Tigers shot 60%
from the floor. The Tigers capitalized on their size advantage outrebounding Penn 21-8 in
the half and 31-14 overall.
With the Colonials down by 12 heading into the fourth quarter, a few rear ends
could be seen walking up the stairs and towards the parking lot on the other side of the
building. Three minutes later, with a 12 point margin still in the hands of the Tigers,
more empty seats were created allowing those faithful Colonial fans to move closer to
watch a run at the title. Shane Hairston scored a jumper with just under five minutes to
go and a quick steal and layup by Davis chopped the deficit to eight. Tiger coach Greg
Williams called a timeout to collect themselves and Jamil Moore answered back right away.
Hairston hit another clutch shot and when the Colonials came back down court a half
minute later without a Tiger response, Brock Donovan's long range three-pointer made the
score 60-55 Tigers.
When Davis drained three with 33 seconds left, the Colonials were within a point,
but the Tigers were shooting in double bonus. An Alex Nichols steal off the inbound and
two free throws after being promptly fouled helped the Tigers seal the victory. Nichols
had come in off the bench in a pressure filled situation to sub for Steven Napier, who had
fouled out, and his 3-4 free throw performance in the last 20 seconds of the game made a
hero out him.
Kwana Chase led the Tigers with 21 points and he pulled down 10 rebounds. He said,
"I wanted to step up my game and help my team win today. We worked so hard to get
here and it paid off in the end. William Penn showed poise and we celebrated too early.
They are a good team."
Tiger coach Greg Williams put Alex Nichols into Napiers spot after he fouled out
with 1:43 to go in the game. Nichols promptly turned a ball over, but Williams stuck with
him despite a thought of pulling him right out. "I dont tolerate mistakes very well.
When he had the turnover I thought of pulling him out, but we needed senior leadership in
that position, so he stayed."
Jamil Moore ended his Tiger career with an 18 point, 10 rebound performance and
took the leadership role on the court. "I wanted to lead this team to win. I talked
about what we had to do with the team in the locker room before the game. This is
great."
Bruce Davis was the leading scorer for William Penn with 22 points. His four
three-point shots gave him 14 overall in the tournament which was a new record. The old
standard was held by Cape Henlopen's Corey Clouser who hit 11 in the 1996 tournament. The
Colonials finished their season 20-5 with three of those losses against AI duPont.
The Tigers finished their season 26-1. The only loss was to Sanford who the Colonials had
bumped out in the semi-finals. There was a sign in the stands that asked the question,
"Where's Sanford?" one that indicated that the Tigers wanted to avenge that
loss. But when the buzzer sounded and the Tigers and their fans rushed the floor
jubilantly all that mattered was that their task was complete for this year and it was
time to celebrate.
Boys
AI duPont 69, William Penn 66
AI duPont 14 23 17
15 - 69
Wm Penn 3 17 21 25 - 66
AI DUPONT (69) - Corey Ponzo 4-8 2-4 10, Jamil Moore 8-12
0-1 18, Kwana Chase 8-13 5-6 21, Stephen Napier 4-5 2-2 10, Christopher Saylor 1-5 5-6 7,
Alex Nichols 0-0 3-4 3, Brandon Howell 0-0 0-0 0.
WILLIAM PENN (66) - Bruce Davis 8-16 2-4 22, Devin Smith
5-11 0-0 10, Zachery Jackson 1-0 4-4 6, Shane Hairston 2-6 1-2 5, Brock Donovan 6-12 1-2
15, Von Homer 0-1 2-4 2, Jamaar Manlove 2-3 0-0 6.
3 Point Goals- AI duPont 2 (Moore 2); William Penn 8 (Davis 4, Donovan 2,
Manlove 2)
All pictures from the Delaware Sports Video Files
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