Princess Anne's Beach streak nearly ended

Princess Anne’s streak of victories over Beach District competition hit 140 games last week. Barely.

The Cavaliers outlasted Landstown 48-46 on Friday. Briana Jackson’s basket with 56 seconds left helped Princess Anne escape.

The Cavaliers’ streak began after a 70-68 four-overtime loss to Kellam in the Beach District tournament championship game in 2004.

Since then, Princess Anne has won 17 or more games – including postseason – against Beach District foes each year heading into this season.

This season, the Cavaliers – the defending Group AAA state champions – are breaking in three new starters.

Galaisha Goodhope, a senior guard who has committed to Old Dominion, and Richmond commit Bria Powell are the holdovers. Also back is Aisha Foy, a Radford commit who missed 22 games last season with an injury.

Teams head to Hampton

Most teams play tonight, then take a holiday break until next week.

A handful of tournaments are slated to be played locally, but most of the top teams are headed for the 40-team Ronald Curry/Boo Williams Christmas Classic.

Play begins Dec. 27 at the Boo Williams Sportsplex in Hampton.

Seven teams ranked among South Hampton Roads’ 10 – including No. 1 Princess Anne, second-ranked Salem, No. 3 Cape Henry, No. 4 King’s Fork and No. 5 Lake Taylor – are slated to participate. So is Woodside, the Eastern Region runner-up last season.

The tourney features five brackets, and one of them has Cape Henry, Lake Taylor, Maury and Salem together.

This week in girls hoops

The big game  No. 9 Maury at No. 7 Wilson, 5:45 p.m. today. Both teams figure to be in the Eastern District hunt.

Hot hand  Grassfield’s Courtni Williams, a junior guard, scored 18 and 21 points in a pair of victories last week.

On the move  King’s Fork won two games by an average of 37 points last week, including a 22-point victory over preseason Southeastern District favorite Western Branch.