The Pirates Week in Review for February 29-March 6 is here and it is the final one for the winter sports season.
We start the final review of the 2015-2016 winter sports season with boy’s basketball. The Pirates opened the South, Group 2 Tournament on Tuesday by hosting Cedar Creek. Cinnaminson picked up a first round win, 55-45, to advance to the second round.
On Thursday, the Pirates traveled to Woodstown for a matchup of the #4 and #5 teams in the SJ2 bracket. Cinnaminson could not build on a 10-point first quarter lead, falling to the Wolverines 51-48 to end the season. The Pirates finish with a 19-8 mark.
Girl’s basketball also opened the playoffs on Tuesday, dominating #16 Buena as the one-seed, 60-16. On Thursday, the Pirates hosted Lower Cape May, the SJ2 defending champion, and advanced with a 40-29 victory.
Saturday’s semifinal game against Haddonfield was the end of the line for the Pirates, who fell by a score of 55-43. Marisa DiLeo led the Pirates in scoring all three games, finishing her career with 1,074 points and a school record for threes in a career with 135. Girl’s basketball ends the season at 22-7, tying the program record for wins in a season.
Winter track competed in one final meet on Tuesday when three athletes went to Eastern States. Mike Ungvarsky finished 4th in the 3200 with a time of 9:29.52. It was the third time in 10 days that Ungvarsky broke the school record.
Tom Long finished 6th in the 800 with a time of 1:57.60, also a school record. Steven Liu finished 10th in the triple jump with a 43’03.25.
The only other team in action this week was wrestling as heavyweight Keith Swartley went to Atlantic City for the state tournament. Swartley began the tournament at 33-0, but suffered his first loss of the season in the pre-quarterfinal round to David Brown of Union by a 2-1 score.
Swartley then went to wrestlebacks on Saturday and won his first two bouts against Michael Kellstrom of Chatham 5-1 and Kevin Doran of Cranford 1-0. Swartley lost his third wrestleback of the day to Anthony Porcaro of Sayreville 4-3 in the first tiebreaker. Porcaro was the one-seed in the top portion of the heavyweight bracket.
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