Photographs by Jon Chase
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Girls Basketball 14–5 Girls varsity basketball had another strong and successful season, finishing with an impressive 14–5 record that helped clinch a spot in the NEPSAC Class B tournament for the fourth year in a row. The early season was highlighted by beating Class AA Rivers for the first time in fifteen years and winning against crosstown rival Lawrence Academy for the first time in the regular season in ten years. Those wins were followed by a win at our holiday tournament, where we beat Taft and Exeter then took on LA once again in the championship game. Going into the holiday
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break, the team had a 6–1 record, its only defeat to the eventual Class B champion, Brooks. Upon returning from break, the team picked up where it left off by winning its first three games, for a 9 –1 record after ten games — the program’s best start to a season in recent memory. Although the team would go 5–4 the rest of the season, the four defeats were all close losses, by eleven or fewer points (including an overtime loss to St. George’s). The later part of the season was highlighted by Captain Calie Messina ’22 scoring her 1,000th career point in a 59–41 win over Dana Hall (see page 4). Calie did this
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in front of a packed home gym, becoming only the third Groton girl to accomplish this feat. The regular season ended the same way it has for five years, with a victory over rival St. Mark’s, 53–33! The team earned the seventh seed in the tournament and traveled to #2 seed St. Luke’s, which had a 24–0 record. The game was tied at halftime, and Groton trailed by only three points with two minutes left in the third quarter, but St. Luke’s went on a 10–0 run to close out the third and eventually win by thirteen points. — Coach Joe Crail
