LAWRENCE – The girls’ basketball team from the University of Notre Dame, which sat at number three, restrained the productive surge of the sixth Robinsville to advance to the Mercer County tournament with a 37-31 victory on Friday in the quarterfinals.
Nicole Villalta-Barrantes led all the scorers, scoring 10 points to direct the Irish to the semi-finals on Tuesday at 3pm at the CURE Insurance Arena in Trenton.
Hale Besler was supported by eight points by Villetta-Barrantes and seven by Simone Pintinali.
The Ravens scored nine points for three 3-point goals from the field by Eli Neumann, plus eight points from Vanessa Sable and six more from Emily Reagan.
ROBINSVILLE (31)
Sable 4-0-8, Pacific 2-0-4, Neumann 3-0-9, Blitz 1-0-2, Eregan 2-2-6, Keating 1-0-2, AR Reagan 0-0-0, R. Robinson 0-0-0.
In total – 13-2-31.
Notre Dame (37)
Villalta Barantes 4-2-10, Giori 1-0-2, Yakim 2-0-4, Besler 2-2-8, Lynch 1-0-2, Banas 2-0-4, Approximately 0-0-0 , Pintinali 3-0-7, Farnan 0-0-0, Ramirez 0-0-0.
In total – 15-4-37.
Robinsville (13-9) 5 9 6 11 – 31
Notre Dame (16-5) 11 9 13 4 – 37
3-point goals – Neumann 3 (right), Besler 2, Pintinali (Sun).
EWING 68, PRINCETON 28
EWING – 25 points from Ryan Stokes and another 21 from Joey Johnson put the Blue Devils seeded with the best number past the Tigers in the MCT quarterfinals.
Te’Yala Delfos added 17 points for Ewing, who will play Tuesday in the semifinals at 6pm at CURE Insurance Arena.
Riley Devlin scored seven points to become the leader at Princeton.
PRINCETON (28)
MBrown 0-1-1, Devine 3-0-6, Aguayo 2-1-5, Chao 0-0-0, Luo 2-0-6, Bannet 1-0-2, Deulin 3-1-7, Moran 0-0-0, Caruso 0-0-0, Bar Cohen 0-1-1.
In total – 11-4-28.
UING (68)
Allen 0-1-1, Gibson 0-0-0, Menges 0-0-0, Ilesanmi 1-0-2, Johnson 10-1-21, Stokes 8-6-25, Delphos 8-0-17, Biggs 0-0-0, Durham 1-0-2, Carmichael Hist 0-0-0.
In total – 28-8-68.
Princeton (9-9) 10 9 5 4 – 28
Ewing (19-1) 13 16 31 8 – 68
3-point goals – Luo 2 (P), Stokes 3, Delphos (E).
MCT consolation
STEINERT 27, GAMILTON WEST 25
Hamilton – The Spartans withstood the big fourth quarter of the Hornets, scoring 10 points from Brenna Riedel.
Martina Fedor won among all the scorers in the game, scoring 11 points for Hamilton West.
Hamilton West (25)
CAcevedo 1-2-4, Fedor 4-2-11, AAcevedo 2-0-6, Maigue 1-0-2, Nixon 1-0-2, Conte 0-0-0.
In total – 9-4-25.
STEINERT (27)
Banachi 3-0-6, Ryder 0-1-1, McCarthy 0-0-0, Ships 0-0-0, Riedel 4-0-10, Sinai 1-1-3, Ehardiman 3-0-7, J . Corby 0-0-0, Thurman 0-0-0, Canaver 0-0-0.
In total – 11-2-27.
Hamilton W. (6-15) 4 6 2 13 – 25
Steinert (7-12) 9 5 4 9 – 27
3-point goals – Fedor, AAcevedo 2 (HW), Riddell 2, EHardiman (S).
WW-P SOUTH 39, TCPA 30
PRINCETON JCT. – Catherine Xiao’s 11 points helped the Pirates beat Mike in another comforting MCT game.
Kayla Oliphant of the Trent Catholic Preparatory Academy equaled Xiao in the match.
Catholic Training in Trenton (30)
Labissier 3-3-9, Ktompson 3-0-7, Aliphant 5-1-11, Lima 0-0-0, Whitfield 1-1-3, Cancel-Batista 0-0-0.
In total – 12-5-30.
WW-P SOUTH (39)
LACMAN 3-0-8, Rubenstein 0-0-0, Gunderia 0-0-0, Latif-Estafan 0-1-1, O’Shea 0-0-0, Black 3-1-7, Xiao 4-2 -11, Yanagi 2-0-5, Pande 1-0-2, Holden 2-1-6.
In total – 15-5-39.
TCPA (3-11) 1 13 3 13 – 30
WW-P South (7-14) 12 10 10 7 – 39
3-point goals – CThompson (TCP), LAkman 2, Xiao, Yanagi (WWS).
MAPL TOURNAMENT
PADDY 37, UP 35
BLERSTOWN – The Falcons (5-14) went through another battle with the Blues to come out on Saturday to play at the Blair Academy with the best seed.
Lawrence 45, MERZERSBURG 39
BLERSTOWN – The Big Red (8-11) held Blue Storm to come out to play with the second seed Hoon (13-9) on Saturday at the Blair Academy in the semifinals of the Mid-Atlantic Preparatory League.
