It’s not often that a team executes every single aspect of its coach’s game plan en route to a victory. Winning teams often get a good portion of the game plan down-pat, but to execute every aspect without fail is rare. The Perry girls basketball team executed the game plan set forth by Coach Roy Infalvi Jr. so perfectly on Jan. 15 at Richmond Heights that Infalvi might have a hard time nit-picking game film after a 52-39 win that didn’t feel as close as the score would indicate. PHOTOS: Richmond Heights vs. Perry girls basketball, Jan. 15, 2025 Perry (9-5, 6-1 CVC Chagrin) went on a 17-3 run in the third quarter, stretched its lead to 22 at one point and cruised to the victory over the host Spartans (9-5, 6-1) to avenge a 39-19 walloping the Pirates absorbed earlier this season. The teams are now tied atop the CVC Chagrin. "We talked about different keys we needed to do at the beginning of the game," Infalvi said after the 13-point win. "I just got done telling them we executed each one of them. "We wanted to be multiple on defense and change some things up," he said. Check. "I think we did a nice job of getting after the 50-50 balls and did a good job of rebounding," he said. Check, check. "I think we did a good job of taking away their drives," Infalvi said of a fourth key. Check. There was little more Richmond Heights coach Eugene White could do but shrug his shoulders after the visiting Pirates outrebounded his team, created more turnovers AND won by a Baker's Dozen. "At the end of the day, their coach had a great game plan and his kids wanted it," White said. "They got it done." Richmond Heights held a 5-4 lead in the first quarter when Honor Hall put back a missed shot. But when Victoria Lynch buried a 3 the next time down the court for the Pirates, the Spartans waved good-bye to the lead for the final time. Hall, a talented 6-foot senior, did all she could to keep Richmond Heights in the game. With the Spartans trailing, 18-9, in the second quarter, she scored 10 points — including seven straight at one point — and pulled her team within 26-22 at the break. That's when Infalvi challenged his team. "We challenged them at halftime," the Pirates' head honcho said. "We had played 16 good first-half minutes. We challenged them. (Richmond Heights) was not going to quit. They're well-coached and have great basketball players that aren't going to stop. We had to get after it in the third quarter." Consider that the fifth game-plan point of the night, and his team listened well. Perry scored six straight to start the third quarter on buckets from Emily Mechenbier, Rosalyn Tharp and Jordyn Newsome before White could call a timeout. Coming out of the timeout, Perry scored eight more points in a row, including a 3 from Victoria Lynch and a floater by Tharp that made it a 41-22 game. "At some point, it's about who wants it more," White said. "They were more excited to come in here and play us and to play this game. We've been like this the last couple games." Perry stretched its lead out to 48-25 in the fourth quarter on buckets by Austin and Tharp before Richmond Heights got its footing and made it closer with an 11-1 run. When Hall, who had a game-high 23 points, hit a 3 with 54 seconds left, Perry's lead was cut to 50-39, but that's as close as it got. "They've got a great team," Infalvi said of the Spartans. "They do some nice things." Perry's Rosalyn Tharp goes to the hoop during the Pirates' 52-39 win at Richmond Heights on Jan. 15. (Paul DiCicco - For The News-Herald) Aside from Hall, Richmond Heights got seven from Mya Johnson. The Spartans play VASJ on Sunday at 7 p.m. in The MLK Invitational. Perry, which is off until next week when it plays Hawken and Geneva, got 15 from Lynch, 14 from Tharp and 10 from Austin.