Hauppauge vs Commack

HIGHLIGHTS

Commack 54, Hauppauge 47: Kim Shalhoub had 13 of her game-high 19 points in the first quarter. Jillian Spagnuola scored the top-seeded Cougars’ last six points of the game that came in the final 76 seconds of a 54-47 win against No. 5 Hauppauge in a Suffolk girls basketball Class AA semifinal at Stony Brook University. Two-time defending Class AA champ Commack (21-2) looks for its third straight title on Thursday when it faces No. 3 Central Islip at Stony Brook. Commack, which led 40-38 after three quarters, got three-pointers from Shalhoub and Casey Hearns (8 points) to take a 46-38 lead. A three-pointer by senior Katie Murphy was Hauppauge’s first points of the fourth quarter with 3:22 remaining and made the score, 46-41. The Eagles would get within five points three more times, but never closer. Murphy ended a great career with 16 hard-earned points and five assists. Senior Kayla Petre added 10 points. Spagnuola, who guarded Murphy in an intense one-on-one matchup most of the game, hit a layup with 1:16 left and then went 4-for-4 from the free-throw line in the final 27.5 seconds. She finished with 12 points, including eight in the second half. Commack was 12 of 22 (55 percent) as a team from the foul line, but went 8-for-11 (73 percent) in the second half. Hauppauge (20-3) was 17-for-32 (53 percent) for the game, but just 2 of 7 (29 percent) in the fourth quarter.