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Pinkerton Astros Girls Basketball '10-'11

Purcell, Alvirne oust Astros

D.J. Purcell's basket with 14 seconds left gave No. 6 Alvirne a 38-36 win over No. 3 Pinkerton in the Division 1 quarterfinals. Pinkerton led 17-9 at the half but Alvirne came alive and outscored the hosts 15-2 in the third quarter. Pinkerton used its press to cut a 10-point lead and get back into it.  Katherine Harris (15 points) was the only player in double digits for the Astros, who also fell to the Broncos late in the regular season.

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Girls Basketball, 03/05/11 » 0 Comments & 0.0 Stars

Goodwin’s double-double leads Pinkerton past Salem

CARL RUSSO/Staff photo. Pinkerton Academy defeated Salem High School 51-37 in the NHIAA Division I Girls Basketball Preliminary game Wednesday night. Pinkerton's, Sarah Goodwin drives to the hoop surrounded by Salem defenders. 3/2/2011. 7 Photos

DERRY — Pinkerton junior Sarah Goodwin doesn’t typically compare herself to Ray Allen as a free throw shooter. “Today was kind of special from the free throw line for me,” she said, laughing after converting all 10 of her free throws. “I’ve never been known for my foul shots. So it was kind of nice to go 100 percent.” Goodwin, a 6-foot forward, was perfect from the foul line, scored 14 points and collected 10 rebounds in No. 3 Pinkerton’s 51-37 victory over No. 14 Salem in the first round of the Division 1 tournament. Goodwin and Pinkerton next play No. 6 Alvirne at home at 7 p.m. in the quarterfinals of the tourney. “I actually did a lot of things today that I don’t normally do like drive (to the basket),” Goodwin said. “I had a couple of good drives. I’m kind of picking up what I should be doing as a big player offensively by getting the offensive put backs and driving strong. But I think defensively I wasn’t as good as I should have been today. I think I could have gotten some stops that I didn’t.” Goodwin had the difficult task of guarding Salem 6-2 center Jen Bujnowski, who netted 14 points, including scoring eight points in the fourth quarter alone. Salem was down by 17 points early in the second half but cut the deficit to six points at 43-37 with 4:52 remaining thanks to Bujnowski’s effort driving inside and scoring down low. But Pinkerton scored the final eight points and Goodwin converted all four of her free throws in the final 1:22. “(Goodwin) is a good player,” Bujnowski said. “She has really good defense in the paint. She knows where to be.” Goodwin was sort of later-comer to basketball. “I did recreational basketball, then I took a year off in middle school,” she said. “I didn’t try out my sixth grade year. So I’ve really only been playing competitively since seventh grade and I’ve only played AAU for two years now.”  Goodwin plays for the Shooting Stars AAU program. She said her dad taught her a great deal about basketball growing up. He played at Hillsborough, then attended West Point. Goodwin said he tried out for the basketball team at West Point but didn’t make it. “She’s learning,” Pinkerton coach Jon Barry said about Goodwin. “She’s a late bloomer. So she’s still learning. She does stuff and we have to correct it and work on it. But she works very hard in practice. So it would be nice if she could continue to play like this.” Goodwin is in her first year starting. She came off the bench for the Astros varsity team last winter. She put the game away with 1:22 when she rebounded a missed foul shot by a teammate, went up strong got fouled and then made both her free throws to make it 47-37. 

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Girls Basketball, 03/02/11 » 0 Comments & 0.0 Stars

Londonderry sweeps Pinkerton

LONDONDERRY — Through the first 16 minutes yesterday, offense didn't play much a part of the regular-season finale for Pinkerton and Londonderry. With the second seed for the upcoming Division 1 playoffs in New Hampshire on the line the two girls squads combined for only 30 points — nine in the first quarter.

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Girls Basketball, 02/27/11 » 0 Comments & 0.0 Stars

Harris for the defense

Katherine Harris shined defensively, holding high-scoring Olivia LaCroix to just nine points as Pinkerton soared past Manchester Central, 59-31. With a season-high seven 3-pointers, Danielle Kimball led the Astros with 25 points.

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Girls Basketball, 02/15/11 » 0 Comments & 0.0 Stars

Kimball nets 22

Danielle Kimball poured in 22 points, including netting four 3-pointers, to lift Pinkerton girls basketball to a 57-34 victory over Dover.  

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Girls Basketball, 02/04/11 » 0 Comments & 0.0 Stars

Goodwin got board

Spurred on by a tremendous overall game from Sara Goodwin (15 points, 12 rebounds, and "terrific defensive" according to head coach John Barry), Pinkerton easily handled Spaulding, 53-30.

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Girls Basketball, 01/25/11 » 0 Comments & 0.0 Stars

Beyond the arc

Stoking the offense with six 3-pointers, Danielle Kimball (20 points) beat Concord all by herself in Pinkerton's 60-16 victory. Kimball has made at least one 3-ball in all of the Astros' seven games.

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Girls Basketball, 01/04/11 » 0 Comments & 0.0 Stars

Boudreau does it again, Andover wins Christmas tourney title

METHUEN — Nicole Boudreau has been stepping up huge in big games her whole entire life. Her twin sister Danielle Boudreau, who was born 9 minutes before Nicole, still clearly remembers the time when Nicole was 12 years old and poured in two 3-pointers with time running out to lead their church league team to a one-point victory. “She thrives off the crowd,” Danielle said. “The bigger (the game) the better. She just works off the energy and she’s an amazing player. But when she’s put under pressure, she really knows how to step up.” Boudreau played in another big game yesterday and put on another big performance. The 2010 Eagle-Tribune Player of the Year and the Boston College bound Boudreau led Andover to a 66-41 victory in the championship game of the Greater Lawrence Christmas Tourney here at Methuen High School yesterday. She was named the tournament MVP for the second straight year. Her statistics likely would have been better yesterday but she played just 26 minutes and sat out most of the fourth quarter because her team was ahead by so many points. She finished with a game-high 25 points to go along with six rebounds, three assists, four steals and one blocked shot. She was 5 of 10 from the 3-point line and 2 for 2 from the foul line. Boudreau was awesome. She always has been awesome, Danielle said. “In Hooptown, which was a camp that we did when we started (basketball), I remember she was about 8 years old and we knew right away that she had the talent,” Danielle said. “They played her right away against a great high school boy, (Andover’s) Tommy McLaughlin. He was probably a 6-4 great player. She played him one-on-one in front of the entire camp. She went under his legs and scored against him.” Yesterday, Pinkerton’s Michelle Reid had the difficult task of guarding Boudreau. “She’s a challenge,” Reid said. “But it’s always nice to be able to come up to that challenge and try to do your best.” Boudreau has been mentioned so many times in The Eagle-Tribune since she was a young player, but Danielle said her sister never gets a big head. “Every morning my dad sets out the newspaper so when we wake up it’s right there,” Danielle said. “He wakes up at like 6 in the morning so it’s always ready. She doesn’t get cocky at all. She just loves reading them. My mom keeps a scrapbook of every single article that’s ever in the paper. She has like four books now.” Nicole not only thrives in big games but seems to love playing at Methuen High, where in the Christmas tourney title game last year she had an immense performance, scoring 39 points on 9-of-12 shooting from 3-point range. “We always say this is our second home because we’ve played here so many times in the past couple of years,” Nicole said. “It’s a great shooting gym. We’ve got a little bit of background and we’re just comfortable here.” 

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Girls Basketball, 12/29/10 » 0 Comments & 0.0 Stars

Pinkerton advances to meet Andover in finals

METHUEN — Pinkerton’s Danielle Kimball and Katherine Harris both struggled at times during yesterday’s Greater Lawrence Christmas tourney semifinal game against North Andover, but both seniors came up huge in the final minute of overtime.

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Girls Basketball, 12/29/10 » 0 Comments & 0.0 Stars

Pinkerton, Lowell easily advance

METHUEN — Pinkerton and Lowell went at it in different ways, but both routed opponents last night in the first round of the Greater Lawrence Girls Christmas Tourney at Methuen High School.

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Girls Basketball, 12/20/10 » 0 Comments & 0.0 Stars
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