Cardinal O’Hara’s Maggie Doogan, seen driving with the ball during a Catholic League championship game against Archbishop Carroll recently, scored 11 points and collected 12 rebounds, three assists, three blocks and a steal Saturday in a blowout win over Mechanicsburg in the PIAA Class 5A semifinal. (Pete Bannan – MediaNews Group).
By Matt Smith
It’s common for a basketball team dominating a game at halftime to become content or lackadaisical.
When one team is trouncing the opposition, mistakes can happen that could give the losing team new life in a game it has no business winning. Except when that winning team is Cardinal O’Hara.
The Lions showed their championship pedigree from start to finish Saturday afternoon at Governor Mifflin Intermediate School. District 3’s Mechanicsburg had zero chance of winning or making it a semi-competitive affair. The Lions came, wreaked havoc, and left after a 50-18 shellacking of Mechanicsburg.
O’Hara will return to Hershey next weekend to defend its PIAA Class 5A championship. The Lions will go to battle against Chartiers Valley in a rematch of last year’s final.