Huskies start fast in rout
Patterson Mill opens with 10-2 run, stays perfect in UCBAC
Many figured that Thursday night’s Upper Chesapeake Bay Athletic Conference Chesapeake Division girls basketball game between Aberdeen and Patterson Mill would be another tight game. It turned out to be quite the opposite.
The Huskies (19-1) rolled from the start and easily defeated the visiting Eagles, 53-28, in Bel Air.
The win kept No. 10 Patterson Mill perfect at 11-0 in division play, while Aberdeen (15-4) slipped to 8-3.
The Huskies came out fast, jumping ahead 10-2 as the Eagles struggled to score. The lead was 12-4 when Aberdeen called timeout with 2:28 to play in the first quarter. Patterson Mill, led by senior Chyna Latimer, closed the quarter on a 5-1 run and led 17-5 at the quarter’s close. Latimer scored nine of the Huskies’ 17 first-quarter points.
“I never expected this. Aberdeen always comes out, they play hard. I mean, they played from the beginning, but our goal from the start was just to go hard and really put them away,” Latimer said. “Make our layups and execute what we’ve been working on.”
Any thoughts the Eagles had that the second quarter might somehow be better were washed away quickly.
Aberdeen guard Jaelyne Deveaux added her second basket of the game early in the quarter, the only baskets by the Eagles in the first half. The other seven points came from the free-throw line.
Patterson Mill, meanwhile, continued to roll. Senior Khayla Mitchell scored the first and last baskets of the quarter for the Huskies. Between that were six more points from Latimer and six free throws from junior Lucie Passwater.
The Huskies led 33-11 at the half, and with two minutes left in the third quarter, had the running clock initiated with a 30-point lead.
Passwater took over in the third quarter, scoring 10 of her game-high 23 points. Eight of Passwater’s points came in the paint. She was11-for-12 from the free-throw line.
“I just feel like, starting with the first layup, just really making it helped my confidence and I knew if I finished strong Patterson Mill’s Chyna Latimer shoots as Aberdeen’s Jaelyne Deveaux tries to defend. Latimer scored nine of the Huskies’ 17 first-quarter points. inside, I would have them all,” Passwater said. Latimer finished with 17 points. Aberdeen outscored Patterson Mill 9-4 in the final quarter, but it had no chance of coming back. The Eagles failed to reach double digits in any quarter.
“It’s not what we were looking for coming down the home stretch,” Aberdeen coach Eric Stancell said. “We practiced a lot for this game and just came out there and did not execute at all.”
Kayla Lighty and Deveaux scored six points each to lead the Eagles.