They wouldn’t need it every other means.
Two Nassau ladies basketball rivals will duke it out at midday Saturday at Farmingdale State School 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It’s the primary title look for the fourth-seeded Plainview-Outdated Bethpage Hawks as they go up in opposition to the No. 2 seed, close by rival and defending champion Syosset Braves.
“That’s just a great game to say you won,” Hawks star guard and ahead Emma Heaney advised The Put up of the upcoming contest.
“It’s a respectable team, we’re a respectable team, and it’s just going to be a great championship,” added the Lafayette-bound senior, who will take the court docket 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, when I took it over, was winning like two or three games a year,” he stated.
“Slowly but surely over the last four years, making the semifinals became a bit of the standard. But with Emma and the seniors, they raised that standard and can really make something special happen now.”
The coach added that their 61-49 loss to Syosset in January grew to become what the squad wanted to complete the yr robust.
“It was after that loss that we vowed to each other, ‘This is it. There should be no other losses. We should be celebrating at the end,’ ” he stated of his crew that received its last seven video games to complete with a 17-5 report.
“Now we’re here, and it’s exciting.”
Settling the rating with 19-3 Syosset might be no simple job, 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 team really wants to win,” he stated. “But we don’t talk about back-to-back a lot … this group just really wants to make their own unique history.”
Slightly south in Plainview, they’re specializing in enjoying their very own recreation somewhat than the sizable job at hand.
“We’re just all chasing that feeling [of victory] and taking it play by play,” Heaney stated. “That’s really helped us prepare for Saturday.”
