Hopewell pulls another upset in CJ3 tourney

PEMBERTON » The 12thseeded Hopewell Valley High girls basketball team made the NJSIAA Central Jersey Group III bracket an All-Colonial Valley Conference affair by defeating fourth-seeded Pemberton, 50-39, Wednesday.

The Bulldogs (14-13) will visit top-seeded Ewing (235) Friday in the sectional semifinal round. Steinert (21-6) will visit Allentown (23-3) in the other half of the CJ III bracket.

Meggy Wiley directed Hopewell’s attack with a game-high 23 points. Franki Gomez backed her with 11 points.

Shavonne Smith paced Pemberton with 20 points.

Atkinson 1-0-2, Wiley 6-11-23, Apai 0-0-0, Kemether 3-0-7, Hare 1-0-2, Oldfield 1-0-3, Danieluk 0-0-0, MSchrader 1-0-2, Gomez 3-5-11.

16-16-50.

Totals —

Champion 1-3-5, Lemons 1-0-2, Middleton 3-0-7, Mulcahy 2-1-5, ShSmith 7-5-20.

14-9-39.

Totals — Hopewell(14-13) Pemberton(9-19) 3-point goals — 9 5 18 8 12 10 11 — 16 — 50 39

Kemether, Oldfield (HV), Middleton, ShSmith (P).

NON-PUBLIC A SOUTH CAMDEN CATH. 50, ND 48 CHERRY HILL » Katie Deutsch’s basket with 11.1 seconds remaining gave sixth-seeded Camden Catholic a come-from-behind win over 11th-seeded Notre Dame, which led, 3935, heading into the final quarter.

Deutch finished with a game-high 21 points, while Erika Porter had 16 points to lead ND.

Jantorno 1-0-2, ECrawford 2-0-4, MCrawford 0-0-0, BriSeymour 1-3-5, NSmith 1-03, Burnett 3-0-8, AJones 0-0-0, LJohnson 3-1-10, Porter 7-2-16.

18-6-48.

Totals —

Bednarek 2-0-4, Deutsch 8-3-21, CForman 1-1-3, KJohnson 1-0-2, Maldonado 0-0-0, Paolini 1-0-3, Santana 7-0-17.

20-4-50.

Totals — NotrDame(18-7) 11 CamdnCat(18-9) 13 3-point goals — 12 5 16 17 9 — 15 —

NSmith, Burnett 2, LJohnson 3 (ND), Deutsch 2, Paolini, Santana 3 (CC).

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