Just as they did last season, the Lady Falcons refused to quit.

Also, just like last season, Salisbury put together a winning record over the last two weeks of the season when it could have hung up the sneakers for the season. Salisbury won its last three games and four of its last seven even though it knew at that point that it was not going to reach its goal of playing in the postseason.

“It was tough sometimes and it got a little frustrating, but you just have to keep going,” said Roxana Cardenas, a junior guard. “We didn’t reach our goals, but we just kept playing as hard as we could even down to the last game.”

That last game was a 33-31 win over visiting Pen Argyl on Saturday, another game where the Falcons’ roster of eight players shrank in numbers to leave the team with just five players to take on the Green Knights. Being down to five players for games late in the season may have drawn the players on the roster a little closer as they looked to find some wins.

Cardenas hit five three-pointers throughout the game. It’s a shot that she has had to work on in order to perfect after being more of a drive-the-lane type of player when she was younger.

“I used to just drive the lane and make some moves with the ball,” she said. “But I started to work on shooting from the outside and from longer distances and I was able to get much better in that part of my game. I still love to drive the lane and mix it up a little, but I can help the team by taking threes and hitting from outside.”

Pen Argyl’s Leah Apostol hit a turnaround jumper with just :50 left in the first quarter to put the Knights up 8-3. Cardenas scored the only three points of the quarter for Salisbury.

The second quarter was back-and-forth. A pair of early threes from Cardenas gave Salisbury its first lead, 9-8.

Senior Kendra Morgan, who surpassed the 1,000 point mark for her career three days earlier, put her team back on top when she hit a short jumper. The lead went back to Pen Argyl before Morgan got another bucket to again switch the lead.

The second quarter ended with six lead changes and the game tied 15-15.

Salisbury held Pen Argyl to just three points in the third quarter. Salisbury got three points from Morgan and Cardenas hit her fourth three of the game to put the Falcons ahead for good, 21-18 after three quarters.

Cardenas stretched the lead to six points with her final three-pointer of the game. Pen Argyl looked to pull closer, but Salisbury’s Morgan and Tessa Kemmerer led the way to keep the Knights at bay and give the Lady Falcons the 33-31 victory.

Morgan’s 1,000th point came in a 47-35 win over Southern Lehigh when she scored a season-high 28 points, finishing her high school career with 1,040 points, scoring 15.5 points per game in her senior season. Cardenas finished with 15 points against the Spartans and averaged 9.5 points per game for her junior season. Salisbury also downed Palisades 43-21 on Friday night.

Salisbury finished the season with a 7-11 Colonial League record and a 10-12 record in the District 11 3A classification.