UV Advances To MAC Title Game
Published: February 8th, 2013
By: Patrick Newell

UV advances to MAC title game

Evening Sun Report

Girls’ Basketball

NEW BERLIN – Unadilla Valley put itself in position to win its first Midstate Athletic Conference championship game.

The Storm pulled away in the third quarter finishing the stanza on a 16-5 run, and it turned back a stubborn B-G team, 54-42, Thursday. The Storm (14-1) will meet Unatego next Saturday at SUNY Oneonta for the league championship.

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“It really was tougher than the final score shows,” said UV coach Brandi Backus. “B-G broke our press a lot better than the last time we played them, they rebounded well, and they shot it pretty good from the outside.”

Backus’ compliments of B-G aside, it was her own team that deserved to take a bow after a strong finish to the third quarter.

The Bobcats whittled an 11-point deficit in the third down to 31-27 on the strength of a 9-2 spurt. Five different players contributed to those B-G points with Betsy Holden’s putback basket after a pair of offensive rebounds capping the salvo.

Over the next minute, UV senior Jordan Anderson had her finest moments of the game. She made a behind-the-back dribble at the foul line to ditch her defender, and sliced through the middle of the B-G defense for a driving layup to raise the lead to six. After a Bobcats turnover, Anderson drew a foul and made two free throws, and then she fed Jen Elliott on an out-of-bounds play for a 15-footer that gave UV some breathing room.

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