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By JAMES D. HORNE, 07/26/05 The Leaf-Chronicle -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Christine Matera understands her role and knows what she's supposed to do for top-seeded Fencor (Pa.). It's just with Fencor's stacked roster, opponents may be surprised with what Matera can accomplish. "They look for me to shoot the ball," Matera said. "So, if I get a chance to shot the ball, I'm shooting the ball." Matera, with 13 points, 11 of which came in the second half, did her part in helping Fencor take a 78-41 win over the Western Lakers (Mich.) in the second round of the Championship Bracket of the AAU 15U Girls National Basketball Championship at the Dunn Center on Monday after noon. "Chris is one of those extremely hard workers we have on our team," Fencor coach Veronica Algeo said. "People may not remember her from last year. But because she's made herself develop so much, people know her now. She played real well at the Oregon and the Chicago Nike Tournaments earlier in July. She's capable of putting together runs of 12 or 15 points in a matter of six minutes. That's how well-skilled she is." Fencor's Elena Delle Donne was the game's top scorer with 22 points. Shannon Ferguson added 11 and Lindsay Kimmel chipped in with 10. The Lakers were led by Elyse Schlump's 10 points and Erika Bruinsma and Maddie Burnett added eight a piece. The Lakers (2-3, fourth place Pool H), who were hampered by poor shooting for most of the game, missed their first eight shots and fell behind 11-0 in the first seven minutes. "That's something about playing the number-one team in the country," Western Lakers head coach Dan Geelhoed said. "That's what that's about. Our girls were a little nervous coming out. Once they settled down, they started playing basketball. But Fencor is a good team. It was a tough game." Top-seeded Fencor (5-0, first place Pool A) took control of the game with two runs. The first, a 13-3 run, came at the end of the first half as Fencor took a 34-14 lead at halftime. The second run was a 15-4 streak that helped Fencor build a 51-18 advantage with 13:14 to play. "We just played really great as a team," Donne said. "We're just trying to prepare for the better games that are to come. We just wanted to make sure we played real well as a team, went on runs and do all the good stuff we're supposed to do."

(updated 6/25, 8 p.m.) T-shirts: all teams will receive free t-shirts. The shirts will be available for pickup at gym you are at on Sunday after your last game. It is the responsibility of each team to see the site coordinator or a Fencor representative there to get the t-shirts. Team list: 1. Lady Knicks 10-Silver 2. Lady Knicks 10-Red 3. Staten Island Rebels 9’s 4. Delaware PAL Wildcats 10 5. Lower Bucks 10 6. NE Lady Lightning 10 7. Delaware Ghosts 8. Next Level 10 9. L.I. Lightning 9’s 10. Renegades 10b 11. Fencor 10b 12. Rockland Royals 11 13. L.I. Lightning-Merrifield 14. L.I. Lightning-Lynch 15. Lady Knicks 11-Silver 16. Lady Knicks 11-Red 17. Philadelphia Belles 11 18. PAL Runnin’ Rebels 11 19. Fencor 11A 20. Fencor 11C 21. Comets 11 22. EGNAA Enforcers 23. Lady Knicks 12-Silver 24. Fencor-Chapman 25. Fencor-Yoder 26. Rhode Island Breakers 27. Lower Delco 12 28. WC Sparks 12 29. Phil. Belles-Flynn (Sun. only) 30. Next Level 12 31. Fencor 12C 32. Albany Capitals 12 33. Bucks County Wildcats 34. Lower Bucks Lightning 13 35. Delaware PAL Wildcats 13 36. Li. Lightning 13-Burnett 37. Lady Knicks 13-Red 38. Western PA Bruins 13-Gold 39. Western PA Bruins 13-Blue 40. Dayton Lady Hoopstars-Black 41. Fencor 13A 42. Fencor-Alpuche 43. Fencor-Collins 44. Collegeville Jaguars 13 45. Comets-Chambers 46. Comets-Moffet (Sun. only) 47. New Jersey Panthers 14 48. Lady Knicks 14-Black 49. Lady Knicks 14-Silver 50. Delaware Lady Sharks 14 51. Western PA Bruins 14-Gold 52. Western PA Bruins 14-Blue 53. Fencor 14C 54. Fencor-Martinez 55. Next Level 14 56. South Jersey Express 15 57. Fencor-Heather 58. Delaware Lady Sharks 15 59. Albany Capitals 15 60. Staten Island Rebels 15B 61. Phila. Belles-Wolk 62. Hunterdon United 15 63. Fencor 15-Meakim 64. Delaware PAL Wildcats 16 65. Chesco Lightning 16 66. New Jersey Panthers 16 67. Albany Capitals 16 68. Delmont Blaze 16 69. Tristate Blue Devils 70. Chickies Rock 17 71. New Jersey North Stars 72. Lady Knicks 16-Black 73. Lady Knicks 16-Silver 74. Definitely Sports Hot Shots 75. Johnstown Lady Hoopsters 76. Hunterdon United 17 77. Fencor 16B 78. Fencor 19’s 79. Atlantic Cape Wildcats 16 80. DBL 19’s 81. Lady Untouchables 14 82. MSU Skyliners 83. JKMBA Jaguars ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Saturday, June 25: Penncrisp 10 a.m. 40 vs. 41 11:15 a.m. 19 vs. 18 12:30 p.m. 38 vs. 41 1:45 p.m. 21 vs. 12 3 p.m. 17 vs. 19 4:15 p.m. 21 vs. 18. 5:30 p.m. 17 vs. 12 Somerton 9:30 a.m. 61 vs. 63 11:00 a.m. 61 vs. 82 12:30 p.m. 60 vs. 63 1:45 p.m. 4 vs. 20 3 p.m. 62 vs. 82 4:15 p.m. 1 vs. 20 5:30 p.m. 60 vs. 62 6:45 p.m. 1 vs. 4 JCC Klein Court 1 10 a.m. 34 vs. 55 11:15 a.m. 30 vs. 14 12:30 p.m. 3 vs. 7 1:45 p.m. 34 vs. 43 3 p.m. 14 vs. 16 4:15 p.m. 11 vs. 8 5:30 p.m. 16 vs. 30 Court 2 9:20 a.m. 33 vs. 43 10:25 a.m. 5 vs. 8 11:45 a.m. 33 vs. 55 World Gym 1:30 p.m. 11 vs. 9 3 p.m. 5 vs. 7 4:15 p.m. 3 vs. 9 Cabrini College's Dixon Center Note: Spectators should bring chairs. Court 1 10 a.m. 13 vs. 31 11:15 a.m. 28 vs. 25 12:30 p.m. 15 vs. 31 1:45 p.m. 28 vs. 13 3 p.m. 25 vs. 15 4:15 p.m. No game 5:00 p.m. 76 vs. 70 Court 2 10 a.m. 78 vs. 67 11:15 a.m. 70 vs. 68 12:30 p.m. 75 vs. 78 1:45 p.m. 67 vs. 71 3 p.m. 72 vs. 76 4:15 p.m. 68 vs. 75 5:30 p.m. 72 vs. 71 Court 3 10 a.m. 64 vs. 69 11:15 a.m. 74 vs. 65 12:30 p.m. 69 vs. 79 1:45 p.m. 64 vs. 73 3 p.m. 74 vs. 77 4:15 p.m. 65 vs. 79 5:30 p.m. 73 vs. 77 Hatboro-Horsham High School Main gym 9:30 a.m. 24 vs. 27 10:45 a.m. 57 vs. 58 Noon 26 vs. 24 1:15 p.m. 23 vs. 27 2:30 p.m. 57 vs. 59 3:45 p.m. 45 vs. 40 5 p.m. 23 vs. 32 6:15 p.m. 59 vs. 80 Auxiliary gym 9:00 a.m. 53 vs. 50 10:15 a.m. 35 vs. 42 11:30 a.m. 39 vs. 83 12:45 p.m. 44 vs. 42 1:00 p.m. 35 vs. 37 2:15 p.m. 26 vs. 32 3:30 p.m. 39 vs. 44 4:30 p.m. 80 vs. 66 6:00 p.m. 45 vs. 38 Simmons Elementary (on H-H campus) 1:30 p.m. 66 vs. 58 2:45 p.m. 37 vs. 83 4:00 p.m. No game Kelly Bolish gymnasium Court 1 10 a.m. 52 vs. 81 11:15 p.m. 49 vs. 50 12:30 p.m. 51 vs. 56 1:45 p.m. 6 vs. 2 3:00 p.m. 52 vs. 49 4:15 p.m. 10 vs. 2 Court 2 10:45 a.m. 6 vs. 10 Noon 47 vs. 54 1:15 p.m. 53 vs. 81 2:30 p.m. 48 vs. 47 3:45 p.m. 54 vs. 51 5 p.m. 56 vs. 48 Sunday, June 26: Penncrisp 9 a.m. 83 vs. 29 10:15 a.m. 41 vs. 33 11:30 a.m. 29 vs. 45 12:45 a.m. 83 vs. 41 2 p.m. 29 vs. 33 3:15 p.m. 41 vs. 45 Somerton 9:00 a.m. 63 vs. 82 10:15 p.m. 61 vs. 60 11:30 a.m. 63 vs. 62 12:45 p.m. 55 vs. 61 2:00 p.m. 60 vs. 82 3:15 p.m. 55 vs. 62 JCC Klein Court 1 9 a.m. 43 vs. 30 10:15 a.m. 2 vs. 20 11:30 a.m. 43 vs. 37 12:45 a.m. 7 vs. 8 2 p.m. 20 vs. 3 3:15 p.m. 8 vs. 10 Court 2 9:00 a.m. 34 vs. 37 10:15 a.m. 3 vs. 5 11:30 a.m. 30 vs. 34 World Gym 1:15 p.m. 9 vs. 4 2:30 p.m. 2 vs. 5 3:45 p.m. 7 vs. 9 Hatboro-Horsham High Main gym 8 a.m. 26 vs. 23 9 a.m. 40 vs. 46 10:15 a.m. 51 vs. 57 11:30 a.m. 40 vs. 47 12:45 p.m. 24 vs. 32 2:00 p.m. 51 vs. 77 3:15 p.m. 57 vs. 76 4:30 p.m. 31 vs. 21 Auxiliary gym 9 a.m. 38 vs. 47 10:15 a.m. 23 vs. 24 11:30 a.m. 12 vs. 18 12:45 p.m. 46 vs. 38 2:00 p.m. 19 vs. 12 3:15 p.m. 77 vs. 66 4:30 p.m. 4 vs. 6 Simmons Elementary 10:30 a.m. 26 vs. 27 11:30 p.m 16 vs. 19 12:45 p.m. 15 vs. 17 2:00 p.m. No game 3:00 p.m. 17 vs. 18 Kelly Bolish Gymnasium Court 1 9:00 a.m. 54 vs. 52 10:15 a.m. 39 vs. 50 11:30 a.m. 56 vs. 59 12:45 p.m. 49 vs. 44 2:00 p.m. 16 vs. 28 3:15 p.m. 44 vs. 53 Court 2 9:00 a.m. 56 vs. 49 10:15 a.m. 14 vs. 42 11:30 a.m. 52 vs. 48 12:45 p.m. 81 vs. 50 2:00 p.m. 14 vs. 31 3:15 p.m. 35 vs. 81 Court 3 8:00 a.m. 1 vs. 11 9:00 a.m. 48 vs. 59 10:15 a.m. 1 vs. 10 11:30 a.m. 35 vs. 54 12:45 p.m. 39 vs. 53 2:00 p.m. 11 vs. 6 3:15 p.m. 27 vs. 32 Cabrini College's Dixon Center Court 1 9 a.m. 65 vs. 73 10:15 a.m. 15 vs. 28 11:30 a.m. 25 vs. 13 12:45 a.m. 68 vs. 74 2 p.m. 21 vs. 25 3:15 p.m. 68 vs. 69 4:30 p.m. 79 vs. 74 Court 2 9 a.m. 72 vs. 75 10:15 a.m. 78 vs. 71 11:30 a.m. 72 vs. 67 12:45 a.m. 73 vs. 66 2 p.m. 58 vs. 79 3:15 p.m. 13 over 42 by forfeit 4:30 p.m. No game Court 3 9 a.m. 70 vs. 67 10:15 a.m. 76 vs. 58 11:30 a.m. 70 vs. 75 12:45 a.m. 69 vs. 78 2 p.m. 71 vs. 64 3:15 p.m. 65 vs. 80 4:30 p.m. 64 vs. 80 =For directions, hit the Back button and then click on Directions= ________________________________________________________________________________________

Schedule (Final Schedule) Directions to all sites can be found on our web site, www.fencor.org Team key: 11’s: 1. Lower Bucks 2. Delaware PAL 3. Mid-Penn Motion 4. Lady Untouchables 5. Comets A 6. Comets B 7. Fencor A 8. Fencor B 9. Renegades-National 10. Renegades-Stober 14/15’s: 11. Upstate Ladies 12. Lower Delco 13. Chester County Wizards 14. Tri-State Tar Heels 15. Bergen Jazz 16. Conn. Shamrocks 17. STNY Flyers 18. Albany Capitals 19. Defenders-Baxter 20. Defenders-Rafferty 21. Delaware PAL 22. NE Lady Lightning 23. Fencor 14A 24. Fencor 14B 25. Phila. Belles-T 26. Renegades 14A 27. Renegades-Vince 28. Berks-Mont Vipers 29. Delaware Patriots 30. Collegeville Jaguars 31. Greg Godfrey All-Stars 32. Lancaster Wave 45. Bucks County Wildcats-Parsons 16/17’s: 33. Upstate Ladies 34. NJ Panthers 35. Westmeath Warriors 36. Hopewell Jaguars 37. Del. Sharp Shooters 38. Va. Cardinals 39. Lady Ice 40. Chesco Lightning 41. Abington/NEPA 42. Fencor 16a 43. Lehigh Valley Lady Lions 44. Bucks County Wildcats-Black Saturday: The Hill School Downstairs gym: 3:30 p.m. 32 vs. 38 5 p.m. 33 vs. 41 Upstairs gym: 3:30 p.m. 11 vs. 30 Fieldhouse Court 1: 3:30 p.m. 17 vs. 22 6:30 p.m. 11 vs. 20 8 p.m. 32 vs. 33 Fieldhouse Court 2: 3:30 p.m. 13 vs. 15 6:30 p.m. 17 vs. 30 8 p.m. 38 vs. 41 Fieldhouse Court 3: 3:30 p.m. 20 vs. 28 6:30 p.m. 13 vs. 22 8 p.m. 15 vs. 28 Lakeside Youth Center 9:30 a.m. 1 vs. 8 10:45 a.m. 2 vs. 6 Noon 1 vs. 10 1:15 p.m. 2 vs. 8 2:30 p.m. 7 vs. 9 3:45 p.m. 5 vs. 4 5 p.m. 3 vs. 7 6:15 p.m. 5 vs. 9 Kelly Bolish gymnasium (Renegades facility) Court 1: 10 a.m. 24 vs. 29 11:15 a.m. 16 vs. 23 12:30 p.m. 24 vs. 21 1:45 p.m. 37 vs. 36 3 p.m. 39 vs. 26 4:15 p.m. 35 vs. 24 5:30 p.m. 39 vs. 37 6:45 p.m. 40 vs. 23 Court 2: 10 a.m. 19 vs. 21 11:15 a.m. 12 vs. 25 12:30 p.m. 29 vs. 31 1:45 p.m. 12 vs. 16 3 p.m. 23 vs. 18 4:15 p.m. 43 vs. 34 5:45 p.m. 36 vs. 35 7:00 p.m. 44 vs. 43 Court 3: 10 a.m. 14 vs. 31 11:15 a.m. 18 vs. 27 12:30 p.m. 14 vs. 19 1:45 p.m. 27 vs. 25 3 p.m. 6 vs. 10 4:15 p.m. 40 vs. 44 5:30 p.m. 26 vs. 34 6:45 p.m. 3 vs. 4 Sunday: The Hill School Downstairs gym: 10:30 a.m. 41 vs. 43 1:30 p.m. 41 vs. 42 Upstairs gym: 10:30 p.m. 38 vs. 42 1:30 p.m. 43 vs. 38 3:00 p.m. 22 vs. 35 Fieldhouse Court 1 9 a.m. 17 vs. 11 10:30 a.m. 16 vs. 26 Noon 17 vs. 28 1:30 p.m. 19 vs. 16 3 p.m. 28 vs. 26 Fieldhouse Court 2 9 a.m. 35 vs. 33 10:30 a.m. 40 vs. 32 Noon 33 vs. 37 1:30 p.m. 18 vs. 45 3 p.m. 37 vs. 40 Fieldhouse Court 3 9 a.m. 15 vs. 45 10:30 a.m. 18 vs. 20 Noon 30 vs. 22 1:30 p.m. 11 vs. 32 3 p.m. 30 vs. 20 Kelly Bolish gymnasium Court 1 9 a.m. 19 vs. 31 10:15 a.m. 36 vs. 39 11:30 a.m. 44 vs. 23 12:45 p.m. 34 vs. 36 2 p.m. 23 vs. 15 3:15 p.m. 31 vs. 39 Court 2: 9 a.m. 3 vs. 5 10:15 a.m. 4 vs. 9 11:30 a.m. 3 vs. 1 12:45 p.m. 5 vs. 7 2 p.m. 7 vs. 4 3:15 p.m. 44 vs. 34 Court 3 9 a.m. 6 vs. 1 10:15 a.m. 10 vs. 2 11:30 a.m. 8 vs. 6 12:45 p.m. 9 vs. 2 2 p.m. 8 vs. 10 Tri-State Sports Center Court 3 10:30 a.m. 12 vs. 29 Noon 13 vs. 21 3 p.m. 27 vs. 29 Court 2 Noon: 27 vs. 14 3 p.m. 13 vs. 12 Court 1: 3 p.m. 14 vs. 21 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------

UConn coach latest interested in frosh phenom DelleDonne By DOUG LESMERISES The News Journal 09/16/2004 Geno Auriemma, winner of the last three national championships in women's college basketball as coach of the Connecticut Huskies, sat inside the faculty lounge at Ursuline Academy, the door closed. Elena DelleDonne, arguably the most talented freshman girls basketball player in the country, walked past the door with her classmates on the way back from an 11 a.m. Mass. "I felt like I should get his autograph, but then I realized he was there for me," DelleDonne said. Auriemma and DelleDonne couldn't even talk to each other. Auriemma can't talk about DelleDonne publicly. Anything more than a hello would have been a violation of NCAA rules. All DelleDonne could do Wednesday was peer through the glass window in the lounge's door. "She was definitely peeking in like he was a celebrity," Ursuline basketball coach Sheila DiNardo said. "That's neat that she thinks of him as a celebrity, while he's sitting there probably thinking that she's the celebrity. And she has no idea of that." As the biggest names in women's college basketball make a beeline for Wilmington, DelleDonne is getting that idea. This week began a new portion of DelleDonne's recruiting process, one that will be a mostly silent dance until her junior year, when more aggressive recruiting may begin. But schools hoping to land the 6-foot-3 guard must make their presence known. Notre Dame head coach Muffet McGraw, who won the national title in 2001 before UConn's three-year run, will be at the school Friday. Vanderbilt University sent an assistant coach to Ursuline on Monday. Penn State will send a representative next Thursday and Tennessee has arranged a visit. "It's probably not really the way to do it," McGraw said. "You're just trying to send a silent message, I guess. I don't know if it has a positive effect or not. But when one coach does it, a lot of coaches do it." After pulling into the parking lot in a white Escalade, Auriemma and assistant coach Jamelle Elliott entered Ursuline about 11:45 a.m. and didn't leave until after 2 p.m. DiNardo, athletic director Sue Heiss and assistant AD Peg Desendorf hosted the visit. They consult with the DelleDonne family whenever a school calls to express interest, and at this point, any school is welcome to stop by. But with the DelleDonnes off-limits, the school is the only welcoming party. "I knew this was coming, but I didn't know it would happen this fast," said DiNardo, who will be coaching her first season at Ursuline. Ursuline representatives posed for photos with Auriemma and smiled while recounting his visit. Heiss said he ended his visit by telling stories to seniors in the hallway. "He was very social," Heiss said. "He was talking about some games UConn had that were close, then he was talking about Bruce Springsteen and talking about his place in Avalon." DelleDonne just couldn't be anywhere near Auriemma to join in the fun. It's an odd setup - DelleDonne draws him there, the other kids get to hang out with him - but it's one that is intended to keep the players from getting swamped. "I kind of wish I was able to talk to them in person," DelleDonne said. "I guess it's good for the players to not get too caught up in college, because I do have four years of high school, so I can't get too far ahead of myself." Although players in the past have given verbal commitments to a college as early as their freshman year in high school, DelleDonne said she is still open to anyone. Her father, Ernie, said he plans to take his daughter to games at UConn or Tennessee or Duke or Notre Dame or Villanova this year to expose her to more college basketball. So if no decision is looming, was Auriemma's trip worth it? Absolutely. "It definitely leaves an impression on me," DelleDonne said. "For them to take the time to come to Ursuline just to see me, and they can't talk to me, it does say how interested they are." Will any of the visits this week be the deciding factor in DelleDonne's eventual college decision? No. But the coaches will keep coming anyway. Contact Doug Lesmerises at dlesmerises@delawareonline.com

Chestnut Hill Local by TOM UTESCHER August, 2004 At the local Magarity auto dealerships, sales awards are having to make room on the mantel for the prizes won by the owner’s offspring. Joe Magarity’s daughter Colleen, who’ll start her sophomore year at Germantown Academy next month, recently won her second AAU national basketball championship in three years. The 5'4" Magarity plays guard for the Fencor 14-and-under AAU squad which competed at the Division I 14-and-under national championships in Monroe, LA. On July 22, the local squad survived an overtime semifinal battle with the Tulsa (OK) Swoosh, and in the championship game the same day, Fencor knocked off the home-state favorites, the Kenner (LA) Angels, 71-61. Magarity and her teammates won the 12-and-under title two years ago, and last summer they were the national runners-up in the 13's. The Fort Washington-based ballclub has garnered a lot of attention partly due to the imposing presence of Elena Delle Donne, a Wilmington, DE native who’ll be a freshman at Ursuline Academy. Already taping in at close to 6'4",, she’s an outstanding outside shooter as well as an inside force, and she already began to attract the attention of college scouts several years ago. In past years, Magarity was positioned at point guard, playing the role of playmaker and tenacious defender. This year, her shot has improved to the point where she’s equally at home at shooting guard; in fact, she funneled in a remarkable 61-percent of her three-point attempts at the AAU Nationals. “I didn’t used to be much of a scoring threat,” she admitted, “but I’ve been working on my shot all year, during the GA season and in AAU.” For its first and second-place finishes in 2002 and 2003, the Fencor group was coached by Chestnut Hill resident Keith Webster. This March a new mentor took over, Veronica Algeo. A former standout at Lansdale Catholic High School and Ursinus College, Algeo is the aunt of the new women’s hoops coach at Chestnut Hill College, Jackie deMarteleire. At the AAU tournament, the new coach related, “Colleen was not only hitting a huge percentage on her three-pointers, but she hit them at clutch times when we really needed them. In the semifinal game [against Tulsa] she hit a three in the final seconds of the half to stop a run by the other team, and that sent us into halftime with some momentum. She did the same thing in the first half of the championship game at a time when we were struggling a bit on offense. “In the second half,” Algeo continued, “we were up by two with about three minutes and ten seconds to go, and she hit a huge three to put us up by five.” This year’s Fencor squad featured a relatively compact roster of only nine players. Two athletes from the 2003 team departed but the team added talented small forward Lindsay Kimmel, who traveled down from New York State to practice and play with the squad. “Everyone just connected really well,” Magarity said. “There were so few of us that we got really close; we had team sleepovers and we did a lot together. “We were a quick team,” she went on. “Everyone’s in good shape because we’re all playing other sports and working out. We got up and down the floor really well. We did a lot of transition drills and we ran a lot of transition offense with our new coach.” The team stormed through the Mid-Atlantic region with little difficulty, winning the championship game over the Wildcats. Fencor then suffered a severe blow when 5'10" guard Caroline Doty went down with a fractured fibula. A freshman who’ll begin to attend Germantown Academy this fall, Doty was the team’s second leading scorer and supplements her stature with exceptional leaping ability. As an eighth grader she high jumped 5'6", half-a-foot more than the winning height at the Girls Inter-Ac varsity championships this year. Doty traveled to Louisiana to cheer on the team at Nationals, but only eight athletes were available to play. For the 100-team tournament, the Fencor girls were seeded second behind the team that defeated them in the 2003 final, the Fairfax (VA) Stars. To start off, the clubs were divided into 17 pools of five or six teams each, and their records there would determine their seeding in the official championship draw. Fencor went 4-0 in Pool Q, winning by margins ranging from 17 to 42 points. In the championship bracket, Magarity’s club won by double digits in each of its first three contests, then beat an Orlando, FL entry in the quarterfinals, 60-53. Next up, in the semifinals, was the sixth-seeded Swoosh from Oklahoma. “We were down by two in regulation with six seconds to play,” Magarity recalled. “We set up a play, but it didn’t really work, so we threw the ball in down low to Lindsay, and she made a lay-up. Then we sort of pulled away in overtime; it wasn’t as close.” The 79-75 triumph put Fencor into the finals against the Kenner Angels, who had knocked off defending champ Fairfax, 55-50, in the other semifinal. Kenner, a New Orleans suburb, is located several hundred miles downstate from Monroe, which is in north central Louisiana. In the championship game, which began barely two hours after the semifinal concluded, a strong first-half performance by the Pennsylvania team earned Fencor a seven-point advantage at the intermission. Kenner went ahead early in the second half, employing a press that initially rattled the northerners, according to Magarity. “Once we settled down and adjusted, we broke their press easily,” she related. “We got in front again and we were pulling away at the end.” Algeo was ecstatic, more for the players’ sake than her own. “They worked so hard and they were so deserving of the championship,” she said. “I’ve never had an entire team be so supportive of one another. They were so dedicated. They hit every line on every sprint at every practice. I’m blessed to be able to work with this group of young ladies.” Magarity is currently enjoying some beach time at the Jersey shore prior to heading back to Germantown Academy for pre-season soccer practice later this month. Last year her varsity soccer, basketball and lacrosse teams at GA all won Girls Inter-Ac championships. In fact, Magarity has been coming along so well in lacrosse (she moved into a starting role midway through the 2004 season) that the stick sport may become her primary focus. Algeo, who watched several of Magarity’s lacrosse games this spring, feels her athletic ability and her attitude allows her to move easily from sport to sport. “The bigger the stage, the bigger the moment, the point where there’s the least margin for error, the better she plays. As a coach, it’s awesome to have a player like Colleen on your team.”