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Pentucket Sachems Girls Basketball '07-'08

Memories from another Garden trip

Many studies show that it is important for younger athletes to play more than one sport. That diversity allows athletes to build different muscles throughout the course of the year. Additionally athletes who play more than one sport are generally less likely to get burned out than athletes who only play one.

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Girls Basketball, 03/13/08 » 0 Comments & 0.0 Stars

Pentucket falls to Archbishop Williams at Garden

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The winter sports season for the River Rival Region is now officially over.

Yesterday afternoon, inside a bustling TD Banknorth Garden, the season's best team, the Pentucket Sachems, lost a hard-fought contest against perhaps the best girls basketball team in the state, Archbishop Williams, 59-53.

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Girls Basketball, 03/11/08 » 1 Comment & 5.0 Stars

Pentucket girls end season at Garden -- again

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For the second year in a row, Pentucket's season came to an end at the TD Banknorth Garden last evening in the Division 3 state semifinal.

Both years, Archbishop Williams, the Division 3 South champion, ousted the Sachems. Last night's 59-53 loss brings Pentucket's record to 0-2 at the Garden over the last two seasons. In all other arenas, the Sachems are 44-3.

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Girls Basketball, 03/11/08 » 0 Comments & 0.0 Stars

It's time to support Pentucket, River Rival Region

Pentucket athletic director Dan Thornton is doing his part in preparation for the big game today.

His athletic department's girls basketball team gave him a nice problem when it qualified for today's Division 3 state semifinal Saturday morning with a victory over Winthrop.

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Girls Basketball, 03/11/08 » 0 Comments & 0.0 Stars

Pentucket brimming with optimism for tonight's showdown vs. small school juggernaut

In John McNamara's words, Archbishop Williams is the best team in the state.

That's the best team regardless of division. Which would make them almost unbeatable in Division 3.

But the Sachems will look to play giant-killers today (4:15 p.m.) vs. defending Division 3 state champion Archbishop Williams on the parquet floor at the TD Banknorth Garden.

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Girls Basketball, 03/11/08 » 0 Comments & 0.0 Stars

Pentucket captures the Division 3 North title

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Pentucket relied on strength in numbers in the Division 3 North championship game at the Tsongas Arena yesterday morning.

As a result, the Sachems (21-2), after a 51-42 victory over Winthrop, are returning to the Division 3 state semifinals Tuesday at 4:15 p.m. at the TD BankNorth Garden against defending state champion Archbishop Williams, which knocked out Pentucket at the same site last year and captured the South championship yesterday.

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Girls Basketball, 03/08/08 » 0 Comments & 0.0 Stars

Pentucket looks to clinch its second consecutive sectional title tomorrow

Winthrop coach Peter Grimes calls them his "Four Horsemen." While Courtney Finn, her older sister Kristen Finn, Nicole Giaquinto and Katerina Mallios may not be as speedy as the old Notre Dame football backfield or as famous as the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, they are certainly making a name for themselves.

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Girls Basketball, 03/07/08 » 0 Comments & 0.0 Stars

Four-guard offense lifts Pentucket past Swampscott

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No one said repeating as the Division 3 North sectional champs was going to be easy.

Pentucket watched its 10-point lead over Swampscott shrink to one inside the final two minutes of play during last night's Division 3 North semifinal. But, thanks to some clutch free-throw shooting, the Sachems were able to hold on for a 60-53 victory.

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Girls Basketball, 03/05/08 » 0 Comments & 0.0 Stars

Pentucket faces Swampscott in semis for second year in a row

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A year ago, Pentucket was in the same position it faces tonight | a No. 2 seed preparing for No. 3 seed Swampscott in the Division 3 North semifinals at St. John's Prep.

However, last year Pentucket was the prohibitive underdog | a Cinderella role that was very familiar all season for the Sachems | to the two-time defending Division 3 North champs from Swampscott.

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Girls Basketball, 03/04/08 » 0 Comments & 0.0 Stars

Big three for Pentucket, Daamen, Viselli, and McNamara, too much

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Beating an opponent three times in one season is never easy, and Newburyport gave Pentucket all it could handle in the second round of the Div. 3 North state tournament.

But, once again the Sachem defense proved to be too tough to crack for the Clippers, as Pentucket moved on to face Swampscott in the North sectional semifinals with the win, 46-32.

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Girls Basketball, 02/29/08 » 0 Comments & 0.0 Stars
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