They wouldn’t need it some other method.
Two Nassau ladies basketball rivals will duke it out at midday Saturday at Farmingdale State Faculty in a real David vs. Goliath county championship.
It’s the primary title look for the fourth-seeded Plainview-Outdated Bethpage Hawks as they go up towards the No. 2 seed, close by rival and defending champion Syosset Braves.
“That’s only a nice sport to say you gained,” Hawks star guard and ahead Emma Heaney advised The Publish of the upcoming contest.
“It’s a decent group, we’re a decent group, and it’s simply going to be an excellent championship,” added the Lafayette-bound senior, who will take the courtroom for the Leopards subsequent winter.
Hawks Twelfth-year head coach Nick Tomasulo is aware of this chance has been a very long time coming.
“This program, after I took it over, was profitable like two or three video games a yr,” he mentioned.
“Slowly however certainly over the past 4 years, making the semifinals turned a little bit of the usual. However with Emma and the seniors, they raised that customary and may actually make one thing particular occur now.”
The coach added that their 61-49 loss to Syosset in January turned what the squad wanted to complete the yr sturdy.
“It was after that loss that we vowed to one another, ‘That is it. There ought to be no different losses. We ought to be celebrating on the finish,’ ” he mentioned of his group that gained its ultimate seven video games to complete with a 17-5 report.
“Now we’re right here, and it’s thrilling.”
Settling the rating with 19-3 Syosset shall be no straightforward process, as Braves head coach Michael Ferreira deliberately scheduled a number of high-competition metropolis colleges all through the season to up his gamers’ grit.
“This group actually desires to win,” he mentioned. “However we don’t speak about back-to-back rather a lot … this group simply actually desires to make their very own distinctive historical past.”
A bit south in Plainview, they’re specializing in enjoying their very own sport reasonably than the sizable process at hand.
“We’re simply all chasing that feeling [of victory] and taking it play by play,” Heaney mentioned. “That’s actually helped us put together for Saturday.”
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