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Power surge lifts Cape girls to 55-44 home win over Lake Forest

Vikings are 6-4 with 10 games left in season
Dave Frederick
January 25, 2016
I believe I can fly. Freshman point guard Lexi Watkins leads a Cape fast break in the Vikings' 55-44 victory over the Spartans. Watkins scored 11 points in the contest. BY DAN COOK
Cape forward Paige Mohr hits one from the paint. She scored 12 points in the game with eight coming in the second half to give a boost to the Vikings' offense. BY DAN COOK
Freshman guard Alia Marshall, right, puts a move on Lake's Tess Dyott. BY DAN COOK
Cape freshman guard Lakeyisha Saintervil drives baseline on Lake Forest's Daia Daniels. BY DAN COOK
Cape guard Logan Shuttleworth drives baseline on the Spartans' Lenisha Benson. Shuttleworth scored eight points in the Vikings' victory. BY DAN COOK
Cape forward Abby E'Nama scores two of her 10 points in the Vikings' win. BY DAN COOK
Lady Vikings guard Sydney Pedersen makes a drop pass around the Spartans' Mya Maddox. BY DAN COOK
Logan Shuttleworth hits a jumper. BY DAN COOK

There is no weather satellite inside the Cape Big House, so no one saw the storm coming. The Vikings basketball girls were down 25-22 at halftime to an athletic Lake Forest team Jan 21. Lake is big on the inside complemented by three-point shooters on the outside. They can surge and break a game open.

Cape responded in the second half by mixing and matching their lineup, which has gotten high tide deeper over the last month, with a run of 21-2 to start the second half, leading 46 to 27 then withstanding a Lake counterinsurgency for a 55-44 final victory.

Cape improved to 6-4 at the halfway mark of the season, but the stretch of final 10 games is a harbor of land mines, including Caesar Rodney, Sussex Tech, Ursuline, Dover, Saint Elizabeth’s, Smyrna and Sussex Central.

Cape got great production from twin peaks Paige Mohr with 12 points and Abby E’Nama with 10 points, the first time the inside power players hit for double figures in the same game.

“It was great,” E’Nama said. “We are pretty strong inside when Paige and I are out there together and playing well.”

Cape also got 11 points from freshman Alexis Watkins and 8 from Logan Shuttleworth.

The Spartans, who dropped to 5-6, were paced by Saia Daniels with 11, Arika Burrell with 10 and Mya Maddox with 9 points.

“Lake is a scary team,” said coach Lauren Carra. “They made a run at the end of the game and I had to make some personnel adjustments to slow them down."

The Spartans knocked down five three pointers in the game led by Mya Maddox with three.

Cape will host Polytech (2-12) Tuesday, Jan. 26, then play at Caesar Rodney (10-3) Friday, Jan. 29.

Cape’s JV team defeated Lake Forest 35-30 in overtime to improve to 8-2 on the season.

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