North gets jump on Sweet Home

Williamsville North jumped out to a 22-4 first quarter lead and never looked back in a 55-32 home win over Sweet Home on Feb. 6.

"We came out extremely flat," said Sweet Home coach Matt LaRoach. "Will North came out flying as they made their shots and got into a rhythm. To be trailing 22-4 after the first quarter was disappointing. Overall, we simply could not recover from going down early and struggled the rest of the game to get back in it."

North led 33-14 at halftime and 45-24 after the third quarter.

Point guard Corrin Genovese led North with 23 points. The eighth grader scored North's first 11 points of the game and finished the first quarter with 13, including three three-pointers. She hit 5-of-7 three-point attempts.

"Her game has really improved a lot," said North coach Mike DelValle. "She's able to control the ball, pass, go get a screen and get it back. She has an uncanny ability to see the floor, get the long pass, and hit them in stride. She's playing way above an eighth grader."

Genovese's teammate Allie Ahern added 12 points in the second and third quarters.

Ellie Allen scored eight points to lead Sweet Home. Coretta Davis had seven points and 11 rebounds and Laura Nerber added six points and eight rebounds.

"We knew they had good shooting guards and that they would play man to man defense and we just struggled," said LaRoach. "A couple of bright spots were efforts by Coretta Davis and Laura Nerber," he added. "Both went hard for four quarters, played good defense, and rebounded the ball well."

Sweet Home (5-9, 6-12) hosted Frontier on Tuesday but results were unavailable before The Bee went to press. They close out the regular season Friday at Kenmore West.

"We need to answer the call," said LaRoach. "It's February and we need to get better and make our push for this final week of the regular season and sectionals next week. We have so much potential and capabilities and now is the time to start maximizing them."

North (6-13, 4-9) closed out its regular season on Tuesday at Lancaster but results were unavailable before The Bee went to press.

(Reporter Patrick J. Nagy contributed to this article)