Falmouth Academy freshman Kendall Currence drills a deep three-pointer in the third quarter Monday night versus Cape Cod Academy. She scored 23 points to lead all scorers.
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OSTERVILLE — Falmouth Academy head coach Gus Adams said he wasn’t necessarily concerned.
But when the host Cape Cod Academy Seahawks girls’ basketball team took off on a 9-5 run to open the first quarter Monday night at Thomas Evan Gymnasium, Adams called a time-out to regroup with 3:19 remaining. While the Seahawks ended the first quarter with an 11-10 lead, Adams’ regrouping of his troops paid off as the Mariners took off to open the second frame and never looked back. Falmouth Academy, now 7-2, outscored Cape Cod Academy 49-11 the rest of the way en route to a 59-22 victory.
“I think he (Cape Cod Academy head coach Jeff Conlon) does a nice job with them,” Adams said. “They didn’t back down. They tried to go inside, they got a few offensive rebounds. They (the Seahawks) weren’t afraid of anything.”
Falmouth Academy freshman Kendall Currence — who led all scorers with 23 points — scored an immediate bucket off a Jane Early feed to open the second quarter that made it 12-11 and the Mariners were off an running. By halftime, the guests had held Cape Cod Academy to just three second quarter points en route to a 31-14 intermission lead.
Currence scored 11 of her team’s 21 second quarter points, had another five points in the third quarter and seven points in the fourth frame. She finished the game with nine steals, seven assists and three rebounds.
Teammates Taylor Mulhearn and Eliza Van Voorhis also finished with double-digit outputs, Mulhearn with 10 points and six rebounds and Van Voorhis with a double-double: 12 points and 12 rebounds to go along with three steals.
Cape Cod Academy’s senior center Victoria Alberico turned in a phenomenal performance, aggressively pouring in 12 points to go along with seven rebounds.
The Seahawks maintained fairly good ball control in the first quarter, but when the visiting Mariners turned up the heat in the second quarter with a full-court press, the end result was a veritable tsunami of turnovers. All totaled, Cape Cod Academy turned the ball over 19 times.
Falmouth Academy’s Eliza Van Voorhis prepares to box out Cape Cod Academy’s Morgan Farber in Monday night’s 59-22 Mariners’ victory.
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From the moment that Currence banked an immediate layup to start the second quarter to make it 12-11, Falmouth Acadmey’s lead, the Mariners never looked back. The guests outscored the Seahawks 49-11 from the outset of the second frame to the end.
While the score may have given the indication that the Seahawks didn’t give much of an effort, the precise opposite was true. To the last buzzer at the end of the fourth quarter, the Cape Cod Academy girls were relentlessly trying to throw a wrench into the Falmouth Academy passing game, but the Mariners proved just a hair too quick. The Mariners might have come out slow, but Coach Adams suggested that his squad was still reeling from the emotional, 41-40 loss to St. John Paul II last Friday night.
“We had a let down after the PJP (St. John Paul II) game,” Adams said. “All we did yesterday at practice, we shot, we lifted, we didn’t really even talk about today’s game.”
Cape Cod Academy head coach Jeff Conlon said he was mainly pleased with his team’s continued progress and improvement and the amount of passion they exhibited on the court in spite of facing one of the Cape’s top girls’ basketball teams. When Falmouth Academy started to pull away quickly in the second quarter, Conlon called a couple of time-outs to try and break up the Mariners’ momentum.
“You know, Falmouth gets in your face there’s no question,” he said. “They pressed us, they pressure the ball. Overall we have a young team and the only way for us to get better in those situations is to be in those situations and that’s ultimately where we need to improve. I said to my girls ‘It’s in our hands. We’ve proven we can play with the likes of Falmouth Academy. When we play our game, we can run with those guys, we just have to sustain it over time.”
Cape Cod Academy’s junior captain Becca White added four points as did Catherine Wetzel.
Cape Cod Academy’s Victoria Alberico drives to the basket as Eliza and Charlotte Van Voorhis try to slow her down. Alberico had 14 points on the night.
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Falmouth Academy next faces Sturgis West (3-2) on Thursday at 7:00 pm at the Hyannis Youth and Community Center.
Cape Cod Academy (1-3) hopes to get back on a winning track on Wednesday (Jan. 14) when it takes the ferry to Nantucket (1-3) for a 5:00 pm start.
— Sean Walsh is the sports editor for www.capecod.com. His email is [email protected]. Follow him on Twitter @coachwalshccbm
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