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Lady Trojans Prepare for Redemption
The Gaithersburg girls are looking to make last year's loss in the 4A State championship game a distant memory.
The Gaithersburg girls basketball team has breezed through the 2010-2011 campaign this season with relative ease, winning games by an average of 30 points per contest.
The unbeaten Lady Trojans have won every game by double digits this season including Saturday’s 14-point victory over Northwest in the 4A West Region championship.
“It means a lot to me because last year we came up a little short,” said Gaithersburg senior guard Sarah Seipp who scored 14 points against the Jaguars. “We’re going back to the RAC and we have unfinished business and we’re ready to finish it.”
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Gaithersburg (23-0) snapped Northwest’s 19-game winning streak and advanced to play North Point tonight at 5 p.m. in a State semifinal matchup at RAC Arena on the University of Maryland Baltimore County campus.
North Point (21-3) captured the 4A East Region crown with a 60-55 victory over South River, a game in which the Eagles were led by sophomore guard Chalise Greenwood who scored 17 points and sophomore forward Ebane Mainor who finished with 12 points.
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North Point is riding a 12-game winning streak; the Charles County school has not lost a game since suffering a 66-56 setback to Calvert on January 19.
Gaithersburg’s last defeat occurred one year ago this month when the Lady Trojans watched Arundel erase a nine-point halftime deficit en route to a 53-40 victory in the 4A State championship.
“I told them last year when you left that locker room remember this feeling,” Gaithersburg head coach Adrian McDaniel recalled. “They were sad and crying. We don’t want to remember that feeling again. Our motto for this year is unfinished business; we got to finish what we started.”
