Sun Valley’s Brielle Wright, right, seen here last year in a game against Freire Charter, scored 25 points Saturday in the Vanguards’ win over Phoenixville. (Pete Bannan – MediaNews Group)
Brielle Wright and the Sun Valley girls basketball team pulled out an improbable 73-68 victory over Phoenixville Saturday.
The Vanguards trailed by 16 points at halftime, but they never quit. SV outscored the visiting Phantoms 23-4 in the third quarter thanks in part to 11 consecutive points by Nora Novotni.
Sun Valley (7-8) fended off a relentless full-court press by Phoenixville (10-6) in the fourth quarter. The visiting Phantoms were two days removed from an 84-42 win against Methacton.
“(We) trailed 21-16 after the first period. I told them we could not play at this pace today,” Sun Valley coach Tony Zambino said “Oh how wrong I was.”
Wright made four 3-point field goals on the way to a 25-point performance. She hit a buzzer-beating trey to give SV a 47-44 lead after three periods. Novotni supplied 18 points and Alison Riley accumulated 10 points, five assists and four steals. Samantha Baron scored five of her career-high nine points in the fourth, while Luci Damico chipped in with nine points and nine rebounds.
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