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Girls: Point Beach to Group I final, Freehold Falls in Group III Semi
Marina Mabrey nuked Gloucester City on Wednesday night to the tune of a career-high 49 points and 16-for-22 shooting from the field to send Point Beach to Sunday’s Group I final for the first time. Unfortunately, Freehold will not be joining the Garnet Gulls at Pine Belt Arena.
4. Freehold falls: Tough way to go out for the Colonials on Wednesday evening, who took the 75-mile trek down to Williamstown to meet Ocean City, but only after the bus was late picking them up. Even still, they made no excuses regarding the bus, but a poor shooting first quarter that saw them go down 7-0 early and 23-10 after three quarters. In the end, a strong run by Freehold to win a sectional title for the first time. The lasting, enduring image of the Colonials’ season is the court-storming that ensued on Monday evening after the improbable, come-from-behind win over Neptune to win CJ III. For that senior class, a job well done getting Freehold back to where it was in 2008 and 2009.
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Freehold Borough girls basketball falls to Ocean City in semifinal
Mar 7, 2013
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Freehold Boro's Camerin Spahn (right) drives to the net as she is defended by Ocean City's Talor Price during the first quarter of the semifinal game on Wednesday at Williamstown High School. / CHRIS LaCHALL/COURIER-POST
Some believed that the winner of the semifinal between Central Jersey Group III champion Freehold and South Jersey Group III winner Ocean City would be favored on Sunday afternoon in the Group III final.
If that notion holds true, Jefferson is in for a tough go Sunday once they get a look at the Red Raiders’ defense.
Freehold could manage just seven field goals during the first 12:09 of the game. Ocean City held the Colonials to just seven field goals for the game, Julia Duggan scored a team-high 11 points to go along with eight rebounds and the Red Raiders defeated Freehold, 35-26, at Williamstown High School.
Freehold (23-6), who received a team-high 10 points from senior guard Camerin Spahn, was coming off an emotional, come-from-behind 50-48 win over Neptune on Monday for its first sectional title, but its Ocean City (24-4) a perennial South Jersey contender, that is through to its first state final since 2008. The Red Raiders will take on Jefferson, a 50-40 winner over Cranford in Wednesday’s other Group III semifinal.
“It’s a whole different team,” Ocean City head coach Paul Baruffi said when asked to compare this team to his quality squads of the last few seasons. “I don’t have as many shooters, but defensively, I think we’re right where we were some of the other teams.”
Ocean City game-planned well for Freehold on both ends. The Red Raiders were patient on offense and slowed the game way down in holding the Colonials without a field goal in the first quarter.
The Red Raiders scored the first seven points of the game, capped by a Katie Johnson foul line jumper for a 7-0 lead with 2:10 to play in the opening quarter. Two free throws from Spahn got Freehold on the board, but a Duggan follow gave Ocean City a 9-2 lead after the first quarter.
While the Colonials refused to turn a 75-mile bus ride that was actually late picking them up back at Freehold into an excuse, they marked the poor shooting as the main problem early.
“You can’t factor the bus into us shooting 0-for-whatever in the first quarter,” Freehold head coach Jennifer Brzucki said. “They remind me of a Marlboro or a Middletown North, a team that slows the ball down a little bit. It seems like every time we play against a team like that, we always seem to struggle in a slow tempo game.”
With offensive possessions at a minimum thanks to no shot clock and Ocean City being deliberate every time it had the ball, Freehold could not take advantage of the few shots it did get, nor could Ocean City, but the Red Raiders hit enough to complement its defense.
A Duggan layup inside the final minute sent the Red Raiders into halftime ahead, 15-6. Ocean City would expand the lead to as many as 15 late in the third quarter after a Duggan drive along the right side of the lane made it 23-8.
The loss ends a strong season for Freehold, which got back to the Central Jersey Group III final for the first time since 2008. The sectional title was the culmination of a building process that took the better part of the last three-plus seasons. After going to the Central Jersey III final in 2008 and finishing 18-10 in 2009, the Colonials went 29-41 in the three seasons before this one.
“It’s been a rollercoaster, lots of laughs, tears, blood sweat, all that,” Spahn said. “This is not the way we pictured it ending, but winning that sectional title was a great note to end on.”
Ocean City 35, Freehold 26
Freehold (24): Kandell 1 0-0 3, Duffy 1 0-0 3, R. Cobb 2 2-2 6, S. Cobb 1 2-2 4, Spahn 2 4-5 10. Totals: 7 6-7 26.
Ocean City (35): Price 1 0-0 2, Mateer 1 0-1 2, Duggan 3 5-7 11, Johnson 1 4-4 6, Lanei 2 1-3 5, Piergross 3 2-2 9. Totals: 11 12-17 35.
| Freehold (23-6) | 2 | 4 | 4 | 16 | - | 26 |
| Ocean City (25-4) | 9 | 6 | 8 | 12 | - | 35 |
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Freehold Borough (26) at Ocean City (35), NJSIAA Tournament, Semifinal Round, Group 3 - Girls Basketball
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Julia
Duggan scored 11 points and Nicole Piergross had nine to lead Ocean
City to a 35-26 victory over Freehold Borough in the semifinal round of
the Group 3 tournament at Williamstown.Leading the way for Freehold Borough was Camerin Spahn with 10 points.
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