There were plenty of tears, turnovers and rebounds in the Seabury Academy boys and girls basketball squads’ senior-night games Friday against Heritage Christian.

Seabury’s girls ran a full-court press to force 32 turnovers in a 46-18 victory.

But according to Seabury coach Nick Taylor, the Seahawks’ 52-16 rebound advantage was the key.

“We’ve been stressing it all year long that you’re going to have to rebound,” Taylor said. “And, finally, they’re getting in there and starting to fight a little bit and getting some aggressiveness.”

Melissa Burch lead the Seahawks with 14 boards.

Senior Laura Hoffmann’s night ended on a hard foul in the second quarter.

“It was pretty hard sitting on the bench,” said Hoffmann, who collected six points and five assists. “I can’t really get sad that we won, but I’m sad that I didn’t get to finish it out.”

Junior Molly Thurman, who had a game-high 17 points, stepped in off the bench to hit both of the free throws after the foul.

“I think it’s important that people step up and take some leadership now that we’re going to lose these seniors,” Thurman said. “And I think that was a very big factor in tonight’s game.”

The boys took the same defensive approach as the girls by running the full-court press in a 66-41 win.

Seabury forced 29 turnovers, led by Adam Davis’ eight steals.

Davis’ stellar night started even before the girls game, when he hit a three-pointer from about five feet out-of-bounds.

“I was feeling it during pre-game, (and) I knew today was going to be a good battle,” Davis said.

However, it was a three-pointer that hit the back part of the basket during the game that Davis talked about even in his senior speech.

“That shot : I blamed it on people turning the fans on and blowing that ball,” Davis said with a grin. “But it was just a horrible shot, and it just kept me loose and made me laugh about that shot and shake things out and get focused again.”

From there, Davis had 21 points, six assists and nine rebounds to go with his steals.

Senior Grayson Dillon scored a game-high 22 points to go along with eight of Seabury’s 47 rebounds.

“When the two of them are playing well, we are a different ball club,” Seabury coach Marcus Heckman said of Davis and Dillon.

Though the emotions were flowing following the boys game, Heckman said that those emotions needed to be gone come Sunday.

“Tonight was a fantastic night – it meant a lot to everybody – but we’ve got to put on our hard hats on Sunday for a good practice and then Monday night for the game,” Heckman said. “Monday night is win or go home. So we want to continue to play well, but I want the blue collars on, come Sunday and Monday.”

The two teams will play host Monday to Burlingame in the first round of postseason play.