Not one public school in Anne Arundel County can beat South River girls basketball, it seems.The Seahawks wore a chip on their shoulder as they walked into Broadneck to play Annapolis for the girls basketball county championship. Seeing the Panthers ranked higher had ruffled some feathers.
By the end of Saturday’s game, they’d shaken it off.South River gradually grew its lead over the course of the afternoon and saved its most dominant quarter for last, dropping 16 points to cement a 51-27 victory, bringing a plaque home to Edgewater for the second year in a row and placing it atop their perfect county record (14-0) like a cherry.“We knew we could beat them by more, and we did,” senior Skylar Woodyard, who scored 12 points, said.
Something about Broadneck’s gym always dogs South River (17-6), Seahawks coach Mike Zivic said, even if the Bruins aren’t actually playing. It wasn’t their most “crisp” performance, he said. In the end, the sheer well of South River’s depth is what saved it.
Seahawks groaned at frequent foul calls and Annapolis suffered the same fate.But South River not only had the luxury of a deep bench, but spreading the foul count around a wider pool. Fouls stacked more precariously among a smaller Annapolis roster.
“I’m comfortable going with basically everyone on the team,” Zivic said. “We have so many. We’re lucky.
We have 10, 11, 12, 13 we can put in there. In other teams, that’s not the case.”South River met Annapolis with so .
