Kopsie leads PW to victory in overtime

Jen Kopsie scored only eight points for Plymouth Whitemarsh's girls' basketball team last night, but chances are she will remember every one of them for a long time.

Kopsie's three free throws at the end of regulation forced overtime, and she added five more points in a 48-43 Suburban One American Conference win at Upper Merion.

Kopsie was fouled on a three-point attempt with nine-tenths of a second left and made all three free throws to force the overtime.

Teammate Angie Branigan led the Colonials with 13 points and Lexi Piazza added 12. The Vikings' Lisa Ridgeway led all scorers with 21 points.

In other conference games:

Shayla Felder scored 12 of her 14 points in the second quarter to lead

Cheltenham

past visiting

Upper Moreland

, 61-23. The Panthers used that quarter to extend a 14-9 lead into a 35-11 halftime advantage. Jackie Kershaw was the only other double-figure scorer for Cheltenham, with 12 points. Nine players scored for the Panthers, who got seven points and 12 rebounds from Alana Brown. Jenny Swiski scored 10 points to lead the Golden Bears.

Methacton

remained unbeaten with a 47-33 win at

Wissahickon

, getting 17 points from Penn State-bound senior Renee Womack. The Warriors (14-0) also got 10 points from Alison Hammond. The Trojans were led by Jenny Knoebel's 14 points.

Host

Upper Dublin

placed four starters in double figures, led by 13 points apiece by Shira Newman and Liza Leyes, in a 64-38 win over

Quakertown

.

The Cardinals also got 12 points from Rebecca Courter and 11 from Danielle Derr. The Panthers were led by Danielle Ciccarone, who scored 20 points.

Nonleague.

Home court and a couple of weeks' extra practice paid off for the

Barrack Hebrew

girls' basketball team.

The Cougars avenged an overtime loss by beating visiting

Stern Hebrew

, 40-23. Lora Kantorovich's 15 points and 10 rebounds led the Cougars (4-5).

Kelly Higgins and Briana Winston each scored 11 points to lead host

Harriton

past

Interboro

, 39-28.

The Rams led, 18-7, at the half, but the Bucs made their only run in the third quarter and cut the lead to 24-17 going into the fourth quarter.

They got no closer after that.

Interboro was led by Sarah Markun's 12 points, half of those coming on three-point shots.

Sarah DelCasale scored 12 points, including a pair of three-point shots, for host

St. Hubert

in its 39-31 win over

Paul VI (N.J.)

. The Bambies are now 5-7.

Yoni Eckman and Chason Danzig combined for 33 points to lead

Stern Hebrew

to a 51-37 nonleague win at

Barrack Hebrew

.

In a nonleague game played in Florida, Tyreke Evans scored 39 points to lead American Christian to a 91-44 win at Boca Raton. Evans hit five three-pointers. Teammate Lamont Jones also hit five three-pointers and finished with 25 points.

Catholic South.

Thirteen players scored for host

Neumann-Goretti

in an 88-39 win over

Kennedy-Kenrick

. Andre Gillette's 10 points was tops for the Saints (6-5, 1-1).

Suburban One American.

Nick Roman scored 19 points to lead

Cheltenham

to a 58-37 win at

Upper Moreland

. Robert Mansell added 15 points for the Panthers. The Golden Bears were led by Sean Caldwell, who scored 16 points.

Del-Val.

Aaric Murray, a 6-foot-10 senior forward, scored 32 points, pulled down 20 rebounds, and blocked 10 shots to lead host

Glen Mills

past

Academy Park

, 85-64, in the league opener for both teams. Fran Drummond added 22 points for the Bulls (7-3 overall, 1-0 league). Murray and Drummond each added 10 rebounds. Glen Mills put the game away with a 25-9 run in the second quarter. It led, 45-26, at the half.

Bicentennial.

Alex Flood scored 25 points and Nick Jaskula added 22 as host

Jenkintown

topped

Morrisville

, 60-41. Jaskula, a 6-7 forward, added 12 rebounds.

At Wissahickon, Jeremy Fry won both the 200-yard individual medley and the 100 butterfly to pace

Central Bucks East

past

Wissahickon

, 86-84, in a Suburban One League meet.

Fry needed only 57.2 seconds to win the butterfly, and his 2:08.3 outdistanced the 200 IM field.

Another impressive event for the Patriots was the 400-meter freestyle relay, where the team of Mark DiLemmo, Vince Paone, Colson Ferrari and Frey took first place. The Central Bucs East "B" team of Ben Auteri, Pete Linder, Chris Carr and Alex Izewski took third place in the same event.

In the girls' meet,

Central Bucks East

beat

Wissahickon

, 100-70.

Nicole Gato's 210 game and 622 series led host

Archbishop Ryan

past

Neumann-Goretti

, 3-1, in a Catholic League match.

Little Flower

blanked visiting

Archbishop Prendergast

, 4-0, behind 200 games from Liz Stout and Kate Brady.

Brittany Barszczewski's 235 game and 561 series helped

St. Hubert

to a 4-0 win at

Hallahan

.