Lake girls sink Cape 42-41

The Cape girls’ basketball team’s normally balanced scoring took Friday night off as the Vikings fell 42-41 to the Spartans in what came to be a battle of the scoring guards. Lake senior Arika Burrell and Cape freshman Dania Cannon scored 20 and 19 points, respectively. Lake moved to 9-4 while the Vikings are now 7-5.

The Vikings trailed for the first three quarters; then they turned it on to take a 41-39 lead off a layup by Cannon with just 16 seconds left in the contest. The Spartans got the inbounds to Burrell, who dribbled the length of the floor and hit just before the buzzer.

“We thought we were at the level of being a good team,” said Cape coach Lauren Carra. “Good teams are consistent, come to practice every day, and show up to the game and play a 32 full minutes of basketball. We did that the last few games, I’ll give them that. We looked really good the last three days.”

The emotional coach felt the team may have gotten a little overconfident.

“I think we got a little too full of ourselves, and Lake Forest just brought us back to reality,” said Carra.

“We thought we could do some damage inside, but the further we got along in the game it looked like that wasn’t going to happen. We decided to go small and put some pressure on their guards and they did a terrific job in the last minute 20, but a minute 20 is not going to win the game.”

Freshman Dania Cannon went 9-for-11 from the foul line. Abby E’nama blocked eight Spartans shots.

Cape will try to bring back that winning feeling as it travels to Woodside, Tuesday, Jan. 24, for its second matchup with Northern Division Polytech. Cape defeated the Panthers 50-32 Dec. 6 at Cape.

The Cape JV squad defeated the JV Spartans 22-6 to move to 9-2 on the season. Phelisha Scott led all scorers with 11 points while Lindsey Swontek and Rye Elliott tallied eight and seven points, respectively.