U.S., with La Jolla Nation Day Alum Breya Cunningham, Routs Germany at FIBA U19 Tourney

The U.S. routed Germany, 100-46, in a FIBA U19 Girls’s World Cup group section sport Sunday in Madrid.

The staff (2-0) by no means trailed, main 24-11 after one quarter, 45-29 at halftime and 68-35 after three quarters.

Ahead Joyce Edwards, a senior at Camden Excessive College in Camden, S.C., led 5 Individuals in double figures with a game-high 21 factors in 21:55 off the bench.

La Jolla Nation Day College graduate Breya Cunningham scored two factors for the U.S. U19 staff and pulled down seven rebounds. She made considered one of 5 photographs in 16 minutes, 25 seconds off the bench in a sport during which no American performed greater than 24 minutes.

Gamers within the event should be born on or after Jan. 1, 2004.

The U.S. stands in first within the FIBA ladies rankings based mostly on latest performances in worldwide tournaments. Germany ranks thirteenth.

Cunningham was a late addition to the staff, changing LSU freshman Aaliyah Del Rosario.

The 6-foot, 4-inch ahead was a McDonald’s All-American as she led the La Jolla Nation Day to the 2023 CIF San Diego Part Open Division ladies’ basketball championship.

Cunningham was a member of the gold medal-winning U.S. groups within the 2021 FIBA Girls’s U16 Americas Championship and 2022 FIBA U17 Girls’s World Cup.

The U.S. will conclude Group B play on Tuesday towards Chinese language Taipei in a sport set to start at 9:15 a.m. PST. It’s going to stream at YouTube.com/FIBA.

Chinese language Taipei (0-2) misplaced to Germany, 67-59, Saturday, and Mali, 83- 68, Sunday. The U.S. defeated Mali, 85-66, Saturday.

Chinese language Taipei is ranked twenty eighth.

– Metropolis Information Service