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Sunday February 28, 2010

GIRLS BASKETBALL:Highlands claims a share of NBIL-Division 2 title


Tori Balzano scored all 11 of her points in the last eight-plus minutes of the game to help lead Northern Highlands to a 50-39 win over Bergenfield and to a piece of the NBIL-Division 2 championship.

By Cory K. Doviak
NJS.com Editorial Director

BERGENFIELD – With 0:00 showing on the third quarter clock, Northern Highlands sophomore Tori Balzano still had not scored a point in a game that the Highlanders needed to grab a piece of the NBIL-Division 2 title. But despite what the scoreboard said, Balzano still had time to turn that around. In the space between when the clock reaches all zeros and when the horn actually sounds to end a quarter, Balzano was able to break her own personal shutout. Bergenfield, which has not won even a piece of a league title since 1985, had just scored six straight points to grab a two-point lead and was poised to carry it into the final quarter before Balzano was fouled, probably with somewhere around one-hundredth of a second remaining in the third quarter. She made both free throws in a one-and-one situation to retie the score. MORE...

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