Staff photo / Dan Hiner Canfield’s Jenna Triveri (11) fights for possession with Boardman’s Tori Strines during Wednesday’s game at Canfield High School.

CANFIELD — The Canfield girls basketball team doesn’t need to run their offense through one player. Sometimes it’s as a scorer, sometimes it’s at the free-throw line or even defensively, but different girls have stepped up at various points throughout the season.

Wednesday night was Jenna Triveri’s turn to shine. She scored 8 of the Cardinals’ 18 fourth-quarter points in a 43-35 win over Boardman at Canfield High School.

Triveri finished with a game-high 13 points, and she had a key scoring spurt in the final minute. Her layup and pair of free throws in the final 40 seconds pushed the Cardinals’ lead to eight and put the game away.

“She grinded through, and I have trust that she’ll be able to make plays at the end of the game. She did that in the fourth quarter,” Canfield head coach Matt Reel said. “She’s the ultimate competitor and she loves that situation, where everything’s kinda against her.”

It’s Canfield’s second consecutive win after dropping a meeting to Massillon Washington, the team’s only loss.

Boardman, meanwhile, lost after winning two straight.

The Spartans started strong, holding a 14-7 lead by the end of the first quarter, but it didn’t last long. Canfield (16-1, 4-0 All-American Conference) battled back in the second quarter and cut the deficit to 16-14. A layup by Canfield’s Lorieona Jannone tied the game at 16 with 3:56 left in the half.

The teams continued to go back and forth throughout the second quarter. But a pair of free throws from Mikayla Rivera gave Boardman a 20-19 lead with 51 seconds to play before halftime.

The Spartans (8-9, 3-2 AAC) held a 29-25 lead after Sarah Bero grabbed a rebound and scored on a put-back with nine seconds left in the third. But the Cardinals retook a 31-29 lead with back-to-back threes from Aleen Barakat to start the fourth. The Spartans battled back as a full-court pass by Rivera set up Bero for a fastbreak layup with 3:58 remaining, tying the game at 35.

Jannone sank a pair from the charity stripe with just under three minutes to play, giving Canfield the lead again. Boardman turned the ball over on back-to-back possessions, and Canfield tried slowing things down. Triveri scored the final four points after coming out of a Cardinal timeout to clinch the win.

Rivera led the Spartans with 11 points. Jocelynn Torres added 10 points and Bero finished with 8.

“Basketball’s a game of runs, and I feel we went on our runs, they went on their runs and it just kinda shook out toward the end where Canfield made shots, they were the more disciplined team down the stretch and good things happened for them,” Boardman coach Annie Pavlansky said. “We had too many uncharacteristic mistakes, turnovers, things that I think we have control over. Canfield did a great job capitalizing on it.”

Barakat knocked down three of the Cardinals’ four 3-point baskets, tallying 11 points. Sofia Castronova had the other triple while scoring 3 points. The pair balanced the Canfield attack, with Triveri doing damage by driving to the hoop and the pair hitting shots from outside.

There’s always balance with girls stepping up, and the chemistry on the team allows the girls to focus on winning each game. Reel said that’s been “the special sauce” for the Cardinals this season.

“It seems like with this group when somebody has a tough game, somebody else is always ready to step forward,” Reel said. “We have different heroes at different times of different games. I don’t think every team has that, and the willingness for our girls to do what it takes is just something special.”