LOWELL — The preseason favourite to win the Div. 4 women title left little doubt it was a deserving champion on Sunday on the Tsongas Center.
The Cathedral Panthers merely overwhelmed No. 3 Wahconah as senior Sara Thompson led 4 gamers in double figures whereas Cathedral’s protection stifled the high-scoring Warriors. It all added as much as a 75-53 win and the Panthers fourth title within the final seven years.
“These girls have a piece of history now with a state championship,” Cathedral coach Clinton Lassiter mentioned. “I told them to leave everything they had on the floor and they did.”
Wahconah’s Grace Wigington truly lead all scorers with 23 factors however the Panthers’ (20-3) depth gave the Warriors suits nearly from the opening tip.
The Warriors led solely as soon as at 2-0 as Cathedral turned the sport right into a runaway by halftime because of torrid capturing from behind the arc. The Panthers knocked down 9 three pointers within the first half, 4 of them coming from Thompson.
Hijjah Allen-Paisley (13 factors) added three and Jasmine Day-Cox (16 factors) had two as Cathedral turned an 8-8 sport right into a 45-21 lead by halftime.
“You know coming in that we’re gonna shoot the ball,” Lassiter mentioned. “But when they’re going in like they were in the first half, it makes us tough to beat.”
Any ideas of a shocking comeback for the Warriors (21-4) successfully died firstly of the third when Cathedral went on a 15-2 run, capped by Thompson’s fifth three of the sport, to open a 60-23 lead.
About the one factor left doubtful at that time was if Cathedral may break Masconomet’s report from 1996 for factors in a title sport and even the margin of victory report.
Wahconah, to its credit score, stored battling and outscored the Panthers 21-12 within the fourth. All that was left was for the Panthers to finish a outstanding weekend for the Catholic Central League, which gained two women titles and a boys title.
“St. Mary’s and Bishop Feehan are at the pinnacle of our league and they’re what we strive to be like,” Lassiter mentioned. “They’re the ones we look up to and they’ve set the bar high from Day 1. And we’ve been able to meet it.”
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