Brandywine Heights girls go cold, see season end in D3 quarterfinal

Brandywine Heights went without a basket in the final quarter and third-seeded Pequea Valley pulled away for a 45-29 win Tuesday night in a District 3 Class 3A girls basketball quarterfinal at Kinzers.

The sixth-seeded Bullets (15-9) trailed just 30-27 after three quarters but managed just two points over the final eight minutes and saw their season come to an end. The loss was the fourth in their final five games, including a Berks Girls League quarterfinal to Reading High.

The Berks IV champs were 14-5 in late January and positioned for a second straight trip to the PIAA Tournament.

Pequea Valley (21-3) clinched a state berth with the win. It will play at No. 2 Columbia Friday in a district semifinal. The top four finishers in District 3 advance to states.

Sophomore Addison Benner, an all-division pick, led the Bullets with 11 points. Katie Stoltzfus scored 12 points, all on 3-pointers, to lead the Braves.

Brandywine led 10-9 after one period and 18-17 at the half.

Brandywine had trouble scoring in the postseason; it managed just 51 points in its two losses. Benner scored 22 of those.

The Bullets played their final nine games without all-division pick Oliva Moyer, who was injured in mid-January. She leads the team in scoring average at 13.3 points per game.  They went 5-4 without her after a 10-5 start.

Pequea Valley finished second in Section 4 of the Lancaster-Lebanon League.