Harpursville’s girls top Class C state rankings, though begin Class C tournament play as the No. 3 seed behind No. 1 Lansing and No. 2 Candor. A season ago, the Hornets opened Section 4 play as the sixth seed and rattled off five consecutive wins before being stung by Rochester’s Bishop Kearney in the state final.
Harpursville will bring an 18-0 record into its opener Wednesday at home against Unatego, a foe the Hornets dispatched by 20 in mid-January, and a win would set up a quarterfinal against either Newfield or Unadilla Valley.
Hornets senior Miranda Drummond averages 24.4 points per game, with a high of 36 and a low of 16. She had a streak of 11 consecutive games with at least one 3-point goal stopped in Saturday’s 52-30 win over Bainbridge-Guilford, which brought the program’s fifth Midstate Athletic Conference title in six years.