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Port Washington Edges Carey, 32-26

Defense keys Lady Vikings' sixth conference win.

Clutch free throws down the stretch by Emily Rosenthal allowed Port Washington to escape Carey with a 32-26 victory in a Conference AA-III girls' basketball game on Friday afternoon.

Rosenthal went 3-for-4 from the line in the final 18 seconds to seal the deal for the Lady Vikings, who didn't earn any style points and nearly squandered a double-digit lead in winning their sixth conference game in nine tries. Rosenthal had 11 points and Emma Horowitz led all scorers with 13. Courtney Norell paced the Lady Seahawks with eight.

"We'll take it," Port Washington coach Dennis Trottier said. "We didn't do a great job breaking their press and had more trouble rebounding, but we played well defensively and made some shots when we needed to."

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Carey had a rough shooting day and hit only one field goal in a first half that saw the Lady Vikings hold it to five points and lead by seven at intermission. Horowitz had five points in an evenly played third quarter, and a basket by Jessie Quinn early in the fourth gave Port Washington its biggest lead at 22-12.

But the hosts found their shooting touch and made it interesting. Too interesting as far as Trottier was concerned.

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"Up 10, we got too comfortable and let them chip away," Trottier said. "We made it more difficult than it should've been."

Norell scored eight points and Nicolette Sands four to spark a 13-4 Carey run that sliced the margin to one with 1:33 remaining. Horowitz gave the Lady Vikings some breathing room when she converted a pass from Rosenthal, and she pulled down a missed free throw by Sands and sank one of her own with 42.3 seconds to go to make it 29-26.

With it still a one-possession game, Carey misfired on a few long-distance tries to tie it and Rosenthal came up with the rebounds and foul shots to ice it.

Quinn scored four points and Ariana Spagna and Christina Leonard chipped in two apiece in the win. Sands added seven points for Carey, which fell to 2-6 in conference play.

On deck for Port Washington (8-6 overall) is its home finale on Friday against Hicksville at 6:15 p.m. The Lady Comets captured the first meeting, 45-30, on Jan. 8. "They've got the best team in the conference in my opinion," Trottier said. "We're looking to have a big crowd behind us and come out and play a big game."     

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