CFCC Ready to Take on Harford

Courtesy of Alex Riley
Star News 

Wilmington ,NC - Lori Drake got the question from several of her player — Would the Cape Fear Community College women's basketball team get the chance to play Harford Community College at the Brunswick Community College Holiday Classic?

She finally got an answer. Her team got the match-up it was looking for.

The 2013-14 season started with CFCC playing Harford at a jamboree game in Richmond, Va. The Sea Devils were supposed to play three teams at the jamboree but the third squad pulled out. When Drake asked if Harford would mind playing again, the Owls declined the invitation.

"My girls are kind of itching. They asked, 'Coach, is that team going to be there? We want to play them,'" Drake said. "It lucked out that we ended up getting that game against them." 

CFCC will open the tournament on Friday with a 10 a.m. against Harford.

In that jamboree game, the Sea Devils (8-0) took a hard loss to the Owls (12-1).

"We're taking this one personally, because we scrimmaged them at the beginning of the season and we were nowhere near ready," sophomore guard Porsha Buchanan said.

"We're a completely different team now. I don't know if they're going to be ready. They're already going to be thinking since they've beat us before, that we won't be a challenge. But they don't know. They don't know."

Last season, Harford got the win over CFCC at the tournament, 58-49. The Owls are an NJCAA Division I team. CFCC is Division II.

That gap might worry some folks, but not the Sea Devils. They've already toppled two Division I teams this season on their way to an unblemished record. Harford is just another team. But they're a team they want to play.

"I think it'll be a competition. I don't think it's anything we can't handle," sophomore guard Shanta Williams said.

"We always go out there expecting to play the best. We always go out with a bang. I feel like this tournament will only make us better. We take one step at a time and keep going from there."