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Hodges Keys Late Run In Playoff Win For Southampton Girls Basketball Team

Publication: The East Hampton Press & The Southampton Press
By Cailin Riley   Feb 19, 2012 10:58 AM
Feb 20, 2012 12:21 PM
If the true measure of a great player is how she performs when the game is on the line, then Paris Hodges has to be considered a force to be reckoned with.

The Southampton junior scored nine of her 15 points in the fourth quarter of a 46-33 win over Center Moriches (8-6 overall record) on Saturday night to send her team to the Suffolk County Class B Championship. The top seeded Lady Mariners (16-3) were scheduled to take on No. 2 Hampton Bays (15-4), which beat Mattituck in the other semifinal on Saturday afternoon, for the title at St. Joseph’s College in Patchogue on Tuesday at 8:30 p.m. Coverage of that game will appear in this week’s news section.

For the first three quarters of Saturday night’s win, Hodges had struggled... more

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