Girls Basketball: Lincoln-Way West romps past Thornton
By Tim Tierney For Sun-Times Media January 30, 2012 10:06PM
Lincoln-Way West's Chelsea Rocha tries to block Thornton's Jaccarra Reeves on Monday night. | Paul James Bergstrom~For Sun-Times Media
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Updated: March 1, 2012 9:52AM
Lincoln-Way West’s Mandy Hozzian provided the long-range accuracy in the opening quarter, Alyssa Capecci went to the basket in the second period, and together they were too much for Thornton to handle.
Hozzian hit three of her four three-pointers in the first quarter and Capecci scored 10 second-quarter points on drives and a putback to stake the host Warriors to a 35-12 halftime lead Monday night en route to a 54-29 victory.
“I was on,’’ Hozzian said. “Especially in warmups. It was good. I was just really on tonight.’’
Hozzian finished with 14 points and has 74 three-pointers this season.
“She was very hot,’’ Thornton coach Erin Wright said. “She’s a very good three-point shooter.’’
“The start was key,’’ West coach Ryan White said. “We don’t play on Mondays very often. In that sense it kind of worried me a little bit. We came in and shot just to get a ball in our hands. We came out the way we needed to.’’
Brittany Michalski connected on two three-pointers in the first half and finished with 14 points. Capecci added 11 points.
West (11-11, 6-5 SouthWest Suburban Red) led 48-13 going into the fourth quarter with its starters on the bench.
“I thought Brittany Michalski stepped up with her scoring,’’ White said. “We play well generally when we have more than Hozzian and Capecci scoring. There’s usually a third and fourth scorer and Brittany did that tonight.’’
Georgetta Reed led Thornton (6-14, 3-8) with 13 points and Nykia Day had 13 rebounds along with four points. The Wildcats beat West by a point in the teams’ first meeting this season at Thornton.
“Today just didn’t seem like they were in the game,’’ Wright said of her team. “Normally we play the whole game with the same aggressiveness we did in the fourth quarter.
“Today they didn’t come out like that. I don’t think they were focused until the fourth quarter. Tonight we didn’t play defense.’’
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