MAPL Girls Basketball Tournament: Pennington pushes Hill to OT before late-season run ends

PENNINGTON — Over the last two weeks, the Pennington School varsity girls’ basketball team has gone from struggling miserably to one of the strongest teams in the area, winning the New Jersey Independent Schools Athletic Association Prep B Tournament for a second straight year and defeating some teams it, at least on paper, had no business beating. Friday in the opening round of the Mid-Atlantic Prep League Tournament at Spark Gymnasium, the Red Hawks put their success to the test against a Hill School team that had beaten them by 30 points Jan. 21. Fifth-seeded Pennington showed how much better it has been...