Mike Vukovcan The Hopewell and Blackhawk girls have two of the better 6th grade travel teams in Beaver County.
Blackhawk’s dominance in girls’ basketball over the last couple of decades is well known but Hopewell program is slowly but surely developing a pipeline of players that will make them very competitive in the upcoming years.
The Lady Vikings high school team has plenty of young talent on the roster, while the 7th and 8th grade programs also have a number of players that should make an impact early once they reach high school. The future is bright with players such as Amiyah Shell, Arionna Shell, Ellie McCoy, Lilian Otto, Lily Enders, Dallas Boyd, Ava Ray to name a few.
The Girls junior high program will once again be strong next season as a talented crop of 6th graders will be making their way to the junior high.
Today, the Hopewell 6th Grade Girls Navy travel team took on a talented team from Blackhawk. Not surprisingly, this game was very competitive and came down to the final minutes but in the end, Hopewell came away with a 22-18 victory.
Here’s recap of this afternoon’s action.
Rilynn Davis got Hopewell on the scoreboard first and after Blackhawk scored the next two baskets, Davis scored again to tie the game at 4.
Free throws by Nevaeh Pope and Davis gave Hopewell a 6-4 lead but the Cougars once again scored to tie the game at 6.
Davis scored the next two Hopewell baskets to give the Lady Vikings a 10-6 lead, but Blackhawk responded with two hoops of their own to tie the game back up at 10.
With Blackhawk leading 14-13, Talia Santia made a free throw to tie the score back up at 14.
The next sequence of the game was the turning point as Lydia Jaquay scored to tie the game up at 16. Then Davis scored back-to-back hoops to give Hopewell a four-point lead, 20-16.
Blackhawk didn’t go away as they scored to make it a two-point game (20-18) but as she did all game, Davis came up big with another basket to ice the game.
Davis finished today with 16 points, while Jaquay scored 4 points and Pope and Santia both scored a point.
Winning is Fun!!
This group of girls is back in action on Wednesday as they take on Central Valley.
