BEAR — It was anyone’s game through the first eight minutes, but by halftime Caravel Academy had taken full control.

The Buccaneers used an 11-0 run to begin the second quarter to jump ahead by 16 points on the way to a 71-38 girls’ basketball victory over previously unbeaten Woodbridge High Tuesday night.

“When you come up here and play against a good team, you have to be prepared,” said Woodbridge second-year coach Isaiah Robinson. “Every time they caught us out of position, they were capitalizing ... I tip my hat off to them. They’re well-coached, they’re well-disciplined and they did a great job. We have to get back to the drawing board and fix a few things.”

Woodbridge (9-1) won by an average margin of 43.7 points in their previous nine games of the season, with five of those Henlopen Conference Southern Division wins coming by 50 or more points. The loss snaps the Blue Raiders’ 12-game regular season win streak.

After taking the early 5-0 lead in the first two minutes of the game, Caravel (11-5) never trailed on the way to their fifth straight win and seventh win over their last eight games. Only one of the team’s five losses this year have been against an in-state opponent.

With just a 16-11 deficit heading into the second quarter, Woodbridge was right in the mix until Caravel started knocking down tough shots, forcing turnovers and taking advantage of mistakes in the transition game. The Bucs were overpowering under the basket and created second and third chances on offense.

“I just asked them to play ball,” Caravel coach Kristin Caldwell said. “I thought we looked a little tentative, we missed some layups in the first quarter, missed some open threes that we’re used to hitting, and I said ‘it’s basketball, you’re playing against a good team, let’s go on a little run here.’ We know that we can score in bunches and we did that in the second quarter.”

Senior India Johnston, last year’s Delaware Gatorade Player of the Year, led the Bucs with a game-high 21 points, while sophomore Jasiyah Crawford added 18 and senior Taylor Wilkins netted 14. Junior Amaya Johnson (nine points), sophomore Anaya Price (seven) and junior Laila Glover (two) rounded out Caravel’s offense.

Wilkins also reeled in a team-high 12 rebounds with eight assists, six steals and two blocked shots. Crawford, Johnson and Price each reeled in five rebounds. Johnston racked up six rebounds, three assists and three steals in the win.

After losing a pair of All-State players Janeira Scott and Cha’Kya Johnson last year to graduation, Woodbridge’s young roster this year has just four juniors, five sophomores and four freshman.

It was the junior De’Asya Jones who led the Blue Raider offense against Caravel, putting up a team-high 18 points. Sophomore Reghan Robinson tallied 14 points, which included a total of four three-pointers in the second and third quarters. Sophomore Kamryn Spence finished with four points and junior Iyanna Mims scored two.

“I know that they’re talented — we’ve played them over the last several years,” Caldwell said. “We know that [Reghan] Robinson can really, really shoot. Even in a loss, she really put on that display ... as soon as she walks in the door, that’s her range.

“But, at the same time, we really respect all of our opponents and we’re confident in what we’re doing around here. Our schedule has been brutal at times and we’re now more experienced than we have been and we’re starting to feel like we’re doing some decent things. It’s not perfect, we can still get better, but we like our strength of schedule.”

Caravel has to wait nearly a week to get back on the court, but will prepare to host a tough Ursuline Academy team on Feb. 7 and Tower Hill School on Feb. 11.

Jones scored nine of the Blue Raiders’ 11 first quarter points, including five consecutive points over a 21-second span to pull Woodbridge to within three points with just over two minutes left in the quarter.

It took less than three minutes into the second for the Buccaneers to break the game open with the 11-0 run, which was emphasized by a Johnston three-point shot at the 5:02 mark to pull ahead 27-11. Jones scored five of the last seven points of the half, but Woodbridge still trailed 39-23 at the break.

Johnston, set to play at Towson University next season, scored 11 of her 21 points in the fourth quarter as the Bucs set up a running clock halfway through the fourth quarter to cement the 33-point victory.