LYNN – Forget records when Classical and English meet in any sport. And if you needed any verification of that fact, you’d have done well to attend Tuesday’s girls basketball game.The records would have indicated that it wouldn’t be much of a game. English is 6-1 while Classical is 2-5 (1-4 in the Northeastern Conference).Yet none of that mattered. Classical junior Hannah Byrne and English senior Jenicia Duggins staged an all-out war, scoring 22 points apiece, with each drawing from their strength with the other team able to do little to stop them. English won the game, 53-47.Click here for a photo gallery.Byrne is emerging as a force around the basket. She scored her points on a variety of moves, plus a deadly 10-footer.Duggins, once she got going, was her usual whirling dervish, wowing the crowd (not to mention her coach and teammates) with several twisting coast-to-coast moves that resulted in improbable layups ? and ones.”Hannah is getting better and better with each game,” said Classical coach Tom Sawyer. “I think with her, it’s confidence. She’s becoming more confident in what she can do, and she’s playing the game now and letting her instincts take over.”English coach Fred Hogan says he understands softball is primarily Byrne’s sport, “but she ought to think more about basketball. She’s very good.”As for Duggins, who got off to a slow start before picking up momentum, “that’s what she does. When you need her, she’s there.”The difference in the game proved to be the supporting casts. The Rams did get 13 points from co-captain Diamond Doe, but she missed a good portion of the fourth quarter after picking up her fourth foul, and she fouled out with two minutes to go.”Us getting into foul trouble obviously hurt us, especially with Diamond,” Sawyer said.No one else from Classical got more than six. English got 12 points from Lashaunda Hogan and eight from Tia Murkison. The Bulldogs also got some strong contributions from their bench, with Taylor Newhall and Shaday Imadiyi playing meaningful minutes and each scoring a bucket apiece.”It’s always a war when these two teams play,” Hogan said. “They know each other inside and out. They play against each other all summer long. That’s why they call it a rivalry.”This was the second time in a little over a week that English and Classical staged a tong war. The first time was in the first round of the Boverini Tournament, when English pulled out a 40-37 win.”I have to commend my team on great efforts in both of those games,” Sawyer said.The game was close at every juncture: 12-12 after one quarter; 25-23, English, at the half; and 34-34 after three.But in the fourth quarter, the Lady Bulldogs opened with a 12-2 run to go up by 10 (46-36), with Duggins picking that particular time to get hot (10 of the 12 points).But the Lady Rams never blinked. Brianna Capone stuck one in to cut the lead to eight, and the lead teetered between eight and 10 for a while. But Tashanna Brown and Doe combined to cut it to five, with just over a minute to go. By then, however, it was too little, too late. Byrne scored four points in the last minute, but Murkison and Duggins kept the Lady Rams at arm’s length the rest of the way.