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Saturday, January 16, 2010

GIRLS BASKETBALL:Rutherford presses its advantage against Westwood

Jess Skowronski (2) and the Rutherford defense put the clamps on Westwood on the ay to a 41-25 win and a 10-1 start to the season.

By Rich Barton
NJS.com Staff Writer

RUTHERFORD – For the past six seasons under head coach Nick DeBari, the Rutherford girls’ basketball team was focused on trying to get the ball inside because they had a pair of talented six-footers over that span who both ended up playing Division 1 basketball -- Jacki Mann (Quinnipiac) and Taylor Wootton (Drexel). But the reality coming into this season for the Bulldogs was that those girls were gone and the urgency to pound the ball into the paint went with them. So DeBari had to rework his team’s approach to every game and it started on the defensive end where Rutherford’s goal every game is to harass its opponents into turnovers and turn those into transition layups. MORE...

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