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North Warren Girls Take League Championship

March 20, 2026

Young women playing basketball — With her team looking on, Jane Cook nails one from the cheap seats. Cook led the Patriots this season with 286 points. Photo by Joe Phalon.

The North Warren girls’ basketball team finished the 2025-26 season atop the Northwest Jersey Athletic Conference Colonial League.

The league championship was their ticket to the postseason state tournament where the Patriots ascended to the quarterfinals for the first time since 2022 before ending their journey at the hands of powerhouse Pequannock Township High School.

Jubilee Leverett scored 184 points for North Warren in the 2025-26 season. Photo by Joe Phalon.

“I was really happy with how the season went,” said head coach Jay Hill. “We won the NJAC Colonial Conference Championship with a record of 9-1, which was a big accomplishment.”

Overall, North Warren notched a 15-13 record on their way to the state tournaments where they upset Waldwick High School 55-43. Jane Cook scored 17 points with Lillian Caraballo ringing in with 11 points and Selah Carper with eight.

“We played very well against Waldwick in the first round of the state tournament,” Hill said. “We had a very strong defense and distributed the ball well. We were very happy to make the trip to Bergen County and come out with a win against a strong team. ”

In the quarterfinal round, the Pats faced off against Pequannock, holding their own for the first half heading into the break just a point behind at 23-22. But Pequannock outscored North Warren 28-10 in the second half, bringing their season to a close.

Senior Jocelyn Considine takes Wallkill Valley for a stroll around the court. Photo by Joe Phalon.

“We played a competitive game against a strong Pequannock team,” Hill said. “Pequannock finished with a record of 23-6 overall and also a 9-1 record in their division.”

The key to success this season, Hill said, was the teamwork that had scoring efforts distributed throughout the squad. It was rare for one player to lead the scoring for more than a game or two in a row.

In fact, in the Pequannock quarterfinal game, seven different Patriots scored. Jubilee Leveret tled the team with eight points followed by Cook and Caraballo each with six, Carper with four, Indira Dosch-Mazure and Julia Smith each with three, and Hannah Allen with two.

Senior forward Hannah Allen put up 109 points for North Warren this year. Photo by Joe Phalon.

On the season, Cook led the team with 286 points followed by Caraballo with 230 and Leverett with 184. Also scoring in three digits were Carper with 127 and Allen with 109.

Anna Sullivan finished the season with 57 points and Dosch-Mazure racked up 55.

Joe Phalon, Contributing Writer

Contributing Writer

Joe brings decades of journalism experience to the Ridge View Echo, covering everything from local school boards to the U.S. Supreme Court. A former National Law Journal editor and Columbia Law School press officer, he now enjoys telling community stories in Blairstown, where he lives with his wife, Rose, and their two dachshunds.