Evening Sun Report

Girls’ Basketball

Sherburne-Earlville 58, Cooperstown 52

SHERBURNE – Sherburne-Earlville started its week losing a fourth-quarter lead. It finished the week with an impressive comeback victory over state-ranked Cooperstown Friday night.

Before a raucous, partisan crowd, the Marauders made up a seven-point deficit in the final 3 1/2 minutes scoring the game’s final 13 points. Mattie Dowdall scored on a layup after a long pass from Savannah Irwin to give the Marauders the lead for good with 1:38 left.

“The girls were upset after the lost to them the first game of the year,” said S-E coach Karen Mulligan. “They thought they could do better than that, and they did.”

S-E, down six entering the fourth, only made a two-point dent in the deficit despite holding Cooperstown without a point for nearly four minutes of the fourth quarter. Nicole Cring’s three-point play raised the Cooperstown lead back to seven, and after an Irwin bucket, Cring drove to the hoop that drew the fifth foul on S-E center Lilly Berg. Berg exited the game, and Cring made her two free throws lifting her club to a 52-45 lead with 3:18 left.

“We called a timeout after (Lilly fouled out) and put a press on to try to get a turnover,” Mulligan said. “We got the turnover and it was pretty effective, so we decided to stick with it.”