Incarnate Word zips along behind Nevaeh Caffey: All-Metro girls basketball player of the year

The battle continues to this day. Yet the winner still remains a mystery.

Incarnate Word Academy junior point guard Nevaeh Caffey thoroughly enjoys the one-on-one basketball contests with her father Johnathan in the driveway of their Warrenton home.

Neveah used to take a back seat to Johnathan, who played at Warrenton High and Moberly Area Community College.

Now, she has caught up — and maybe even surpassed her father — despite giving away three or four inches in the clashes.

"He's just mad that I've passed him up," said Neveah, who stands 5-foot-10.

Not so fast says Johnathan, who can still go to the rack at age 39.

"She's been scared of me for years," he joked.

The Red Knights have won 131 successive games, the longest current streak in the nation.

And Nevaeh, which is heaven spelled backwards, has been helping the engine purr the last two seasons.

Caffey already has committed to attend Indiana University, which is coming off a 26-6 season and appearance in the NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament's Sweet 16.

But she still has one more year left at the private Bel-Nor school — which means another year of drilling fall away jumpers against her father. 

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