Pa. Girls | Nine from the stripe seal a win for Vikes

The free-throw line made all the difference for the

Northeast

girls' basketball team last night.

The Vikings shot 9 for 11 from the line to earn a 53-49 nonleague win at

Cardinal Dougherty

.

The Vikings got 20 points from Peaches Nesmith.

In other nonleague games:

Alicia Wilson's clutch free-throw shooting gave host

Germantown

a 36-28 win over visiting

West Philadelphia

. Wilson led the Bears with 13 points.

St. Hubert

made the host of a the trip across the river, winning, 34-23, at

Holy Cross

(N.J.). Chrissie Gana led the Bambies with 13 points.

Sarah Kazarnowski scored eight of her 24 points in the fourth quarter as host

Villa Joseph Marie

topped

Pottsgrove

, 56-52.

Delco Christian

won at

Girard College

, 37-24, getting 15 points from Sarah Homan.

Friends Select

went on a 12-5 run to open the second half in a 37-26 win over visiting

Mercy Vocational

. Phoebe Hopkins led the Falcons with 11 points.

Public.

Helen Levins scored 16 points as host

Masterman

remained unbeaten with a 61-45 win over

Communications Tech

. The game featured an unusual occurrence as a Communications Tech player stole an inbounds pass and laid the ball into her own basket by mistake.

Ten players scored for

Overbrook

in its 48-31 win at

Southern

. The Rams' Ayah Magathah was the game's leading scorer with 17 points.

Freire Charter

got 18 points from Raquel Flemmings and 14 more from Shawnell McKeithan in a 60-23 win at

Mastery Charter

.

Swenson

won at

Mariana Bracetti

, 53-33, as Mia Waring scored 33 points and Veronica Forman added 12.

Fourteen players scored for

Central

in its 79-21 win over visiting Fels, led by RaeShelle Drayton's 10 points. The Lancers (3-1 overall, 1-0 league) have lost only to Inter-Ac power

Notre Dame

, 49-39.

Philadelphia Academy Charter

got 14 points from Stephanie Kates and 10 more from Bonnie McQuilan in a 43-23 win over

New Media Charter

.

Visiting

Del-Val Charter

led, 20-10, at halftime and coasted to a 35-25 win over

Math, Civics and Science

.

Shakira Goodman scored just six points but she made some history for

Bodine

in its 44-23 win over visiting

Paul Robeson

. Goodman pulled down 27 rebounds to tie the school's single-game mark established by Renata Neal in the 2005-2006 season. Jasmine Elum scored 18 to lead the Ambassadors (7-0).

Suburban One American.

Kristen Fuery scored 13 points to lead

Upper Dublin

to a 50-20 win at

Upper Moreland

.

Del-Val.

Briana Winston scored 19 points and Amanda Tyler added 15 for

Harriton

in its 43-39 win at

Academy Park

.

Catholic Academies.

Sarah McGorry's 11 points and eight rebounds for

Mount St. Joseph

helped head coach John Miller pick up his 501st career win, 64-18, over visiting

Sacred Heart

.

Tri-County.

Laura Kantorovitch scored 10 points to lead

Barrack Hebrew

to a 39-20 win at

Del-Val Friends

. Rebecca Yasner had a team-high 11 steals to go with her nine points for the Cougars.

West-Mont Christian

emptied its bench at the start of the third quarter with a huge lead in a 48-28 win over visiting

Woodlynde

. However, Woodlynde's 6-foot-4 center, Sarah Engman, took advantage of that situation by scoring 12 of her 19 points in that quarter to get the Lions back in the game with a 16-4 run. Then the Winged Lions reinserted the starters and coasted to the win, led by 6-1 forward Caprice Golden, who scored 15 points.