ATTLEBORO — In a midseason loss at Walpole, the Bishop Feehan ladies basketball group didn’t shoot nicely, however extra particularly settled for poor makes an attempt.
Feehan coach Amy Dolores then put in movement a plan to scrub that up.
In Tuesday evening’s recreation with rival St. Mary’s, the Shamrocks seemed how Dolores needed on offense — and fairly robust on protection, too — as they earned a 58-51 victory to enhance to 16-2.
With the defeat, St. Mary’s falls to 16-2. Both groups are thought of favorites to make deep state match runs, Feehan in Division 1, St. Mary’s in D3.
“We’ve just been working on getting great shots, and the kids have really bought into that,” Dolores mentioned. “Because of that, we didn’t have to settle for long jumpers, and we were able to get great looks in the paint. It was really predicated on their unselfishness.”
The scoring primarily got here from 4 gamers. Sophomore Charlotte Adams-Lopez was good all through, scoring her group’s first seven factors and ending with 20. Fellow sophomore Madelyn Steel had 11 factors. Junior Julia Webster scored 12, and senior Samantha Reale had eight.
Of these 58 factors, solely six got here on 3-pointers. The movement, chopping, and ball motion resulted in clear seems to be contained in the paint, and the Shamrocks made their fair proportion of contested ones, as nicely.
“We focused a lot after that (Walpole) game on reversing the ball, a lot of ball movement, and not looking for early shots,” Adams-Lopez mentioned. “Taking our time, using up the shot clock, anything we can to get better looks.”
The Shamrocks led, 11-9, after the primary quarter, however dominated the second to the tune of 18-7. An early 14-2 run noticed Feehan rating 10 factors on layups or photographs in shut. Steel punctuated the run with a 3-pointer that made it 25-11.
St. Mary’s made some runs within the second half, however Feehan regularly fought the Spartans off. Adams-Lopez scored 5 factors within the third quarter, together with a nifty reverse layup in entrance of a hyped-up Feehan scholar part.
The win provided a measure of revenge for Feehan, which misplaced to St. Mary’s earlier within the season. Both groups play within the Catholic Central Large, however solely the primary recreation counted as such, as this was a non-league recreation.
Dolores was happy with how her tremendous sophs performed with the state match simply across the nook.
“It’s huge. It’s huge,” Dolores mentioned. “We have a lot of sophomores playing big roles, and for them to have that experience . . . Some of our seniors and juniors have experience having big wins. It was really nice for the sophomores to have such a big role in this . . . going into the tournament.”
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