scoring average leader is Danielle Viglione with a 27.4 mark over nine games. Her 242 total puts her at 10th in career playoff scoring and could easily reach the No. 3 spot before these playoffs are over.

* Lynette Johnson has totaled 192 points in her playoff career and can make it to the coveted 200 mark with eight more points. Her Kennedy team takes on Oak Ridge in the semifinals.

* Sophomore Lily Hagerty of Valley Christian tied a 20-year old-record when she scored 49 points in her team’s win over Trinity. Danielle Viglione of Del Campo scored 49 in a game against Wood in 1993.

* D’Erryl Williams of Sheldon is also closing in on 200 points. The senior has now totaled 176 points with one or two gameslast, best chance to save its school. Roughly 90 parents at this school of 208 students wrote letters explaining why Gateway should remain open despite a recommendation from Delaware’s Charter School Accountability Committee’s that the state not renew Gateway’s charter.

Last month, the committee voted to shutter Gateway and Reach Academy for Girls in New Castle at the end of this school year. On December 18, the state secretary of education, Mark Murphy, and the state board of education will act on that motion. If both recommend non-renewal, the schools will close.

Gateway goes big

In the meantime, parents, staff, and supporters of the charter schools are busy galvanizing support—much of which will be on display at 6 pm this Wednesday when the public gathers inside the Carvel State Office Building