While the Yorktown Patriots won a second straight Liberty District girls basketball game, on the same date their counterpart boys team lost for the first time in league play this season.
The high-school contests were at different sites against the Marshall Statesmen on Thursday (Jan. 30). The girls won 45-24 on the road. The boys never led, losing at home, 64-49, having a six-game winning streak snapped.
The Yorktown boys (15-3) are still in first place with a 7-1 record.
The Yorktown girls improved to 8-10, 5-3 and are among the top three in the district standings.
For the girls, the victory was their fifth in six games. Yorktown took a 6-0 lead and was ahead the rest of the way.
Leading Yorktown in the win over Marshall were Olivia Shiplett and Zainab Qaiyumi with 12 points each. Shiplett also collected seven rebounds and blocked three shots.
Eleanor Mahshie had six points, five assists and two steals. Ainsley Lomas added three points, seven rebounds, five assists and two steals.
Helene Lydon scored five, Molly Cooper three and Elena Debevec and Sam Donahue two each.
In its previous game, Yorktown defeated the Herndon Hornets, 53-26, in district play. Lomas led the Patriots with 16 points, including 10 in the third quarter when Yorktown blew the game open, extending its nine-point halftime lead to 20.
Lomas also led Yorktown with four steals. Lydon scored 11 points and Mahshie had eight points and a team-high six rebounds. Shiplett scored seven, Debevec six, Cooper three and Donahue two.
For the Yorktown boys in the loss to Marshall, Jack Coulman scored 16 points, Sam Rossa 12 and Austin Barbieri 11. Starter Jack Rubin missed the game due to illness.
Yorktown did not shoot well, especially early in the loss when it trailed 33-17 at halftime. The deficit increased to 20 early in the third period.
The Patriots rallied to within 10 points multiple times in the fourth period, but got no closer.
The Wakefield Warriors girls team won their fifth game this season, defeating the host Fairfax Lions on the road, 49-42, in overtime Thursday (Jan. 30) in a non-district girls game.
Samantha Belvo was a scoring leader for Wakefield. Her three-point play gave Wakefield the lead for good in overtime at 42-39.
Belvo then scored her team’s next seven points, all on foul shots, to close the victory.
The game was tied at 37 after regulation. Wakefield rallied from a 31-29 deficit late in the fourth quarter to send the game into OT.
The Washington-Liberty Generals girls squad won two Liberty District girls games in recent days to improve to 12-7 overall and 6-3 in league play. Those wins came at home over the Herndon Hornets, 53-16, and McLean Highlanders, 40-26.
Julia Kelly scored 11 points against McLean and Kathryn Wagener 15 in the victory over McLean.
