The girl’s basketball team will host #8 Lower Cape May on Thursday, March 3 at 6pm for the second round of the South, Group 2 Tournament. Here is our second round playoff preview.
#1 Cinnaminson: 21-6
#8 Lower Cape May: 15-12
When: Thursday, March 3 at 6pm
Where: Cinnaminson
How They Got Here
The #1 Pirates opened the South, Group 2 Tournament on Tuesday at home with a dominating 60-16 victory over #16 Buena.
Marisa DiLeo led the Pirates with 17 points (4 threes) as Anne O’Malley and Fiona Flynn also scored in double figures with 12 and 10, respectively.
Cinnaminson is now 7-1 in its last eight games. Their lone loss came against Group 4 Rancocas Valley to end the regular season.
All 14 players who dressed for the first round saw playing time in the win as head coach Bret Jenkins was able to rest his starters in the fourth.
The Pirates led 13-5 after the first and 41-10 at the break before holding Buena to just one point in the fourth quarter en route to the 60-16 victory.
Cinnaminson received points from 10 of the 14 girls who played. The Pirates connected on seven three-pointers.
It has been a banner year for the Pirates, winning the Freedom for the second straight season and third in four years, while also hitting the 20-win mark in the regular season.
DiLeo became the program’s leader in three pointers made and just the fourth female in school history to score 1,000 points in a career.
#8 Lower Cape May picked up a 58-45 win over #9 Oakcrest to open the tournament on Tuesday night. The Tigers are 15-12 this year and are the South, Group 2 defending champions.
The Tigers had two players in double figures in the win over Oakcrest as Olivia Levin led the way with 20 and Marissa McGaffney finished with 16. Eight players scored for the Tigers, who led 31-22 at the half and pulled away with a 22-13 fourth quarter.
The Tigers have won four in a row coming into this game and are 5-1 in their last six games. The lone loss came to Cape-Atlantic National Division champion Ocean City.
Lower Cape May finished third in the division race with a 6-4 mark.
The Tigers held the #1 seed last year in the section and went on to defeat #2 Sterling 58-55 in the final. The Tigers lost to eventual Group 2 State Champion Manasquan in the state semifinal game 77-43.
Lower Cape May graduated all five starters from last year’s sectional championship team.
Previous Meetings
Cinnaminson and Lower Cape May have not met in the last eight seasons.
Game Coverage
Cinn City Sports will have coverage of girl’s basketball versus Lower Cape May at 6pm on Thursday, March 3. Grace Shallow will have live updates throughout the game. Follow her on Twitter and Cinn City Sports for scores throughout both tournament games Thursday.
Follow Cinn City Sports on Twitter for news, scores and live updates from games throughout each season. Like Cinn City Sports on Facebook. Sign-up for our daily newsletter, which arrives daily at 8am with the previous day’s stories, on the homepage.
