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Bad Season Gets Worse for Girls' Panthers

Collingswood girls' basketball team loses in another blow-out—this time, to Gateway.

While the Collingswood boys' basketball team is currently at the top of the Colonial Conference’s Liberty Division, the girls' basketball team is a long way behind.

The girls' Panthers have played a total of 23 games, coming up on the losing end an astounding 19 times.

The most recent disappointment for Collingswood came Thursday, when they fell victim to the visiting Gateway Lady Gators by a final score of 50-10.

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The Panthers didn’t have a single scorer in double-digits Thursday, mainly because the team, as a whole, didn’t even hit the mark until there were just two minutes remaining in the game.

Sophomore point guard Ellie O’Neal led Collingswood in scoring with four points.

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“I really don’t know what to say,” said a distraught O’Neill. “I just think we all try hard individually. Maybe we just haven’t gotten together as a team yet. I don’t know.”

O’Neill’s four-point total was less than a sixth of the contribution added from Gateway’s leading ladies.

Gateway high school senior and forward Meghan Nowak, towering over the Panthers at 6 feet, dropped a game-high 24 points, six of which came from behind the 3-point arc.

Also in the box score for the Panthers—junior forward Erica Witherbee, who sank a single jump-shot for two points; sophomore center Morgan Worthington, who battled Gateway defenders for two points on a layup; and senior guard Beth LaBar who hit a pair of free throws to record two of Collingswood’s five first-quarter points.

“A lot of our shots just weren’t falling,” said LaBar. “We have just got to work harder on defense. I have no idea why we didn’t play with a sense of urgency. We were down by 40—maybe that’s just it. It’s hard to come back from that.”

LaBar is well aware of the fact that she only has four games remaining in her Collingswood uniform. She’s also keen on the notion that this season wouldn't have been nearly as tough had the Panthers’ playmaker Nadirah Robinson been healthy for her senior campaign.

LaBar has only one hope for the rest of the season.

“It’s pretty tough,” she said. “I kind of knew it was coming. I didn’t think it’d be this bad, though. I just want to win a couple more games.”

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