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Cape girls’ basketball uses 21-point fourth quarter to ground Eagles

Vikings outscore Smyrna 21-4 in fourth quarter
January 10, 2017

Freshman Dania Cannon scored 13 fourth-quarter points to lead the Vikings to a 47-31 win over the 1-5 Eagles Jan. 6 at Smyrna on the Eagles’ Teacher Appreciation Night. She finished the game with 14 points. Cape moves to 5-4 on the season.

“Tonight was a huge step for Dania,” said Cape coach Lauren Carra. “She got down on herself in the first half and especially in the third quarter. We took her out and had her sit a little bit, and we were trying to help correct the mistakes she was making, and in the fourth quarter she busted out. She played very very well in the fourth quarter for a freshman.”

The Eagles were ahead 20-16 at the end of the first half and 27-26 at the start of the last stanza.

“We were showing them the same thing throughout the first half like the 1-3-1 or a man-to-man defense,” said Carra. “We went to a full-court pressure in the second half to see how they could handle it. We went smaller and a little quicker, and we put them in a position they weren’t ready for, and it worked.”

“I don’t know what was wrong with me in the first half,” said Cannon. “But the locker room and my team kept encouraging me, and I just came out of it in the second half.”

And come out of it she did, scoring two buckets and a three, and hitting 6-of-7 fouls shots in the fourth quarter, including two off an Eagles technical foul.

Sydney Pedersen added 10 in the Vikings’ winning effort.

Melena Credle scored 15 for the Eagles.

The JV squad defeated Smyrna 44-18. Rye Elliott led the scoring with 19 points. Phelisha Scott chipped in eight, while Brooke Bunting tallied seven.

“We got a lot of points on caused turnovers,” said Elliott. “We ran our plays on offense and scored a lot of points off them.”

The 6-2 JV Vikings play host to Sussex Central Thursday, Jan. 12.

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