South Windsor Girls' Basketball Team's Tournament Run Comes to an End

The Wilton girls’ basketball team made the most of its first state championship game appearance, while South Windsor felt the sting of defeat for the second straight year in the final.

Led by Trinity College-bound senior Erin Cunningham, the second-seeded Warriors cruised to a 73-45 victory over No. 1 South Windsor in the Class LL championship game Saturday at Mohegan Sun Arena.

Cunningham finished with 33 points and 19 rebounds for Wilton (25-2). Erica Meyer, who is headed to Providence, had 17 points and Makenna Pearsall added 10.

“My team was just finding me when I was open,” Cunningham told Henry Chisholm of GameTimeCT.com/New Haven Register. “I was open, I was just putting them up and they were going in.”

South Windsor, which lost to Lauralton Hall in last year’s final, finished at 27-2.

Amy McConnell led the Bobcats with 12 points, while Alexandra Goslin had 10 and Molly Murphy added nine.

South Windsor coach Don Leclerc credited Wilton for shooting lights out and told Lori Riley of the Hartford Courant that he told his players that “we had one of the best seasons in school history and we can’t let one game dictate how our season was.”

Read more about the game at GameTimeCT.com here and the Hartford Courant here.

Image via @SWBobcatPride on Twitter

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