The Riverhead Blue Waves meet the Ward Melville Patriots in the Suffolk County Class AA girls basketball tournament quarterfinals today in Riverhead. Game time is at 5 p.m.
The League III champion Blue Waves are riding an 18-game win streak into tonight's playoff game.
The Waves rolled over Patchogue-Medford in round one of the playoffs Monday night, 67-46.
No. 6 Ward Melville (12-5) finished second in League I behind No. 1 seed Sachem East. Ward Melville defeated Kings Park 53-49 in a playoff game on the Patriots' home court Monday night.
Riverhead and Ward Melville have not met on the court this season.
Patriot powerhouse Caysea Cohen is the Ward Melville player to watch. The senior point guard is the Patriots' scoring leader. Cohen put 30 or more points on the board twice this season and scored 28 points another time. She is coming off a 20-point performance on Monday night, a game in which she also had eight steals and seven assists, according to Newsday. Meagan Murtagh had 18 points, 11 rebounds and six blocks in that game.
Riverhead (18-1) is seeded number three in the tournament, after Sachem East and Lindenhurst. Both also advanced in tournament play Monday night, with each team drubbing their opponents. Sachem East (18-1) beat No. 16 Half Hollow Hills East 63-29, while No. 2 Lindenhurst (18-1) pounded No. 18 Eastport-South Manor 58-23. Sachem faces No. 8 Walt Whitman (13-6) tonight, as Lindenhurst takes on No. 10 Northport (12-5).
The winner of tonight's game in Riverhead will face the winner of the Lindenhurst-Northport matchup Saturday at 2 p.m. at Farmingdale State University.
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