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Lynbrook rolls into stretch run

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Riding its second winning streak of at least five games, Lynbrook will attempt to close the gap on Conference A-III frontrunners North Shore and Floral Park down the stretch of the regular season and make a case to open the Nassau Class A girls’ basketball playoffs at home.

The Lady Owls (9-2 in A-III, 14-2 overall) exploded for 27 first-quarter points last Friday and cruised to a 69-40 victory at Lawrence. Their season-high output was led by junior center Kerrin Montgomery (31 points, 28 rebounds) and sophomore guard Sophia LoCicero (26 points, 5 steals), while the hosts got 16 points from Monica Reyes-Camacho.

“We’re playing quality basketball,” Lynbrook head coach Steve LoCicero said. “We happen to have two of the best teams in the county in our conference. North Shore and Floral Park could be the top two seeds in the playoffs. We want to be in the conversation to be among the top four, we just have to figure out a way to hopefully beat one of them.”

Floral Park and North Shore are tied atop the eight-team conference with identical 10-1 marks and boast Nassau’s No. 1 and 2 leading scorers, Kaela Hilaire (28.5 points per game) and Gabrielle Zaffiro (28.0 ppg), respectively. Lynbrook is the only team with two players in the top 10, with Montgomery at 20.4 ppg and LoCicero, the coach’s daughter, at 19.3 ppg.

“We have a double threat with Kerrin and Sophia,” coach LoCicero said. “If teams decide to focus on Kerrin inside, we’ve got Sophia who can attack from the outside.”

The Lady Owls had Montgomery (20), LoCicero (18), senior Amanda DiGiorgio (13) and senior Kacie Curran (13) all scored in double figures in their 75-65 defeat at Floral Park on Jan. 9. Hilaire had 28 and Marykate Guerrero added 20 to lead the Lady Knights, who jumped out to a 27-11 lead and held on despite being outscored by a basket in each of the last three quarters.

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