Rita Collins and Lizzie Neville produced double-doubles while Maria Belardi kept hitting 3-pointers Sunday afternoon as Division 1 champion Scranton Prep remained unbeaten in the Lackawanna League with a 59-34 rout of visiting Valley View.
The win was the 66th straight in the league by the Classics covering more than five full years.
Collins was one rebound away from a double-double by the end of the first quarter after getting to eight offensive rebounds in the first 4:10. She finished with 15 points and 13 rebounds.
Neville had 12 points and led the defense with 11 steals.
Belardi drilled five 3-pointers while scoring a game-high 19 points.
Scranton Prep won three times in less than four days and, during that time, hit 31 times from 3-point range. It had eight against Valley View.
The Classics ran off 22 straight points, the first 13 of them by Collins, for a 24-1 lead and were in front, 27-4, after one quarter.
Neville, who had seven points in the quarter, and Collins each had three steals in the first quarter.
Belardi finished the first-quarter scoring with a 3-pointer, then opened and closed the second quarter with two more. In between, she assisted Neville’s second 3-pointer.
Collins scored the last of her 15 points to make it 32-5 and the lead got as high as 39-9 during the quarter.
Belardi hit her last two 3-pointers while scoring 10 points in the third quarter. Avery McNulty also added a 3-pointer in the quarter as the lead ballooned from 42-16 to 57-21, putting the Mercy Rule into effect.
Molly Murphy made three 3-pointers for Valley View, which made five in the second half and six in the game.
Murphy finished with nine points and Giada Costa had eight.
Scranton Prep, which is 12-0 in the division and 17-3 overall, will look to complete its perfect league season Tuesday at home against Honesdale (6-6 and 9-11).
Valley View is 3-8 and 7-12.
MORE SCRANTON PREP GIRLS COVERAGE
Friday’s title-clinching win over Delaware Valley: https://nepabasketball.com/2021-22/HSGames/GirlsPrepDV.
Thursday’s victory at North Pocono: https://nepabasketball.com/2021-22/HSGames/GirlsPrepNP.
