Aniya Eberhart (above, earlier this month), led all scorers with 18 points. (Photo: Josh Verlin/CoBL)
By Josh Verlin
Haverford High coach Lauren Pellicane pulled Megan Kelly aside late in overtime and told her point guard to be confident. With Garnet Valley playing a zone, focusing heavily on Fords stars Rian Dotsey and Aniya Eberhart, someone else needed to step up and hit a shot.
Kelly listened, and did exactly that.
When the Fords’ 5-foot-4 junior guard caught a ball on the left wing with less than a minute left in a tied ball game, she head-faked an incoming defender, took one dribble to the left, just inside the arc, and buried the jumper.
“I was wide open on the wing all the time and I wasn’t stepping up and Pell called me over and told me that I was open and I had to start being confident in my shot,” Kelly said. “And then I got the pass, ball faked and I was open, so I shot it.”