By Bill West
Published: Tuesday, March 11, 2014, 9:24 p.m.
Hempfield girls basketball coach Aaron Epps shrugged as he spoke about the 14 points his players scored in the third quarter Tuesday night during their PIAA Class AAAA second-round game at Gateway and noted that his girls led the WPIAL’s largest classification in scoring during the regular season.
What made Epps more excitable stemmed from what the Spartans did at the other end of the floor against Fox Chapel during that fateful third quarter.
Hempfield (19-9), the WPIAL runner-up, broke open a tight contest by holding Fox Chapel to four points in the decisive quarter of its 54-44 victory. The Foxes (20-6), who finished third in the WPIAL, cut their deficit down to six after Hempfield’s run put them behind 38-24, but they never came closer.