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Phillips Big Blue Girls Basketball '11-'12

Mon, Jan 30, 2012 04:30 PM @ Brooks
Team 1 2 Final
Phillips 31 24 55
Brooks 16 21 37

Phillips on upswing

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CARL RUSSO/Staff photo. Phillips Academy defeated Brooks 55-37 in basketball action Monday afternoon. Phillips' Kayla Maloney of Windham looks to take the jump shot as Brooks' Sarah Bresette jumps in front of her attempting to block the shot. 1/30/2012.  » Staff PhotographerMore photos

 

 

NORTH ANDOVER  — Phillips Academy's girls basketball team has not enjoyed as much success as it had hoped this year, but the Big Blue might be turning things around at the right time.

Phillips won its third game in its last four yesterday with a convincing 55-37 victory over area rival Brooks to improve to 5-8 on the year.

The Big Blue's size was just too much for Brooks to overcome as 6-foot Kaylie Williams and 5-11 Maggie Brown both scored 12 points and 6-4 Alex Kiss-Rusk chipped in with seven points and helped control the boards on both ends of the court, grabbing 11 rebounds, one less than Williams.

"Their size gave us a lot of trouble," said Brooks coach Amy Kenneally. "We were missing two players, which didn't help."

 Said Phillips assistant Lewis Robinson: "We had some injuries and issues earlier in the season but we're playing on all cylinders now."

Missing for Brooks for the fourth straight game was junior guard Thalia Garcia, who has a leg injury but should be back soon, and 6-4 sophomore Alex Norgaisse, who has yet to play since recovering from ACL surgery.  

 Junior foreward Meaghan Flanagan of North Andover led Brooks (8-6), which trailed 31-16 at halftime and couldn't recover, with 13 points.

Game Statistics:

Phillips Academy (55): Kiss-Rusk 2-3-7, Walker 3-1-8, Hames 1-3-5, Williams 4-4-12, Brown 5-1-12, Hartung 1-0-2, Simard 1-0-2, Cavanaugh 1-1-3, Kreider 1-0-2, Sagan 1-0-2. Total 20-13-55

Brooks (37): Hammerl 0-0-0, Flanagan 3-5-13, M.Smith 0-0-0, Domoracki 1-0-2, S.Smith 4-1-9, Nelson 3-3-9, Katz 1-0-2, Alvino 1-0-2, Brissette 0-0-0. Totals 13-9-37

3-pointers: PA — Walker, Brown; B — Flanagan 2

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