Harborwomen Win First Playoff Sport in Three Years – Hingham Anchor

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February 26, 2025 – Story and photographs by Joshua Ross
Hingham women basketball recorded their first win within the playoffs final night time since beating Marshfield again within the 2021/22 season within the spherical of 32.  
The twenty seventh ranked Harborwomen hosted thirty sixth ranked Bay Path RVT in a play-in sport.  The ladies are coming off a powerful week on the Annual Weymouth Event the place they beat Boston Latin 68-34 on Monday and misplaced to an excellent Archbishop Williams staff 69-64 in OT on Tuesday.  Within the Archies sport, they got here again from a 12-point fourth quarter deficit to power OT led by sophomore Kate McBride who rating a profession highs with seven 3-pointers and 29 complete factors.  
After the event, Head Coach Roland Millien defined the development of his staff from the beginning of the season to now. 
“I feel one of many greatest issues in our development is we begin to belief one another and we trusted one another a bit bit extra,” acknowledged Millien. “We trusted one another on protection, we trusted one another offensively, we had been in the precise place. Typically the ball didn’t go in, however as soon as they noticed that the following particular person subsequent to them was trusting, then they began to belief. And that’s that’s how we’ve been capable of construct off of that.”
That belief is necessary with Millien’s teaching fashion of rotating in gamers regularly.  In most video games, all 13 of his gamers will see some enjoying time.  It’s common to have greater than eight or 9 gamers on the rating sheet.  Final night time, it was 11 out of the 13.
Although the playoff jitters confirmed for the primary quarter and a half, the Harborwomen settled in and located the formulation that has labored finest for them, shifting the ball on offense and lock-down protection.  With the rating tied at 11 after the primary quarter, Hingham bought again to their sport and took a 29-18 lead into halftime.  Photographs began falling within the second half and the Harborwomen ran away with a 63-44 win.  
Sophomore Eileen Lowther is a having monster season.  Millien calls her the “most gifted shot blocker” he’s ever coached, together with a few seven footers on the collegiate stage.  She’s averaging over 5 blocks a sport and disrupts opponent’s offenses wherever close to the paint.  Final night time, Millien inspired her to shoot extra and she or he ended up with a sport excessive 16 factors.  4 others – senior captain Caroline Connolly and sophomores Lila Sweeney, Kate McBride and Kylie McAloon all had eight factors.
Senior captain Ava Surgue agrees the women may need been a bit nervous beginning the sport however settling in as the sport went on.
“Undoubtedly within the first quarter,” Surgue defined. “We should always have taken a lead, I feel, been a bit bit extra aggressive, however we positively picked it up by the tip and began to have enjoyable and get again into it. I’m excited for North Quincy on Friday.”
Surgue credit a “good staff camaraderie” for the staff’s success the previous few weeks and the rationale why they get contributions from everybody through the video games. Nonetheless, she want to see Lowther be a bit extra egocentric on the offensive aspect. 
“ She retains dishing it out. We had been telling her to shoot extra, however she’s so unselfish with the ball.”
The ladies will journey to the fifth seeded North Quincy staff on Friday night time.  Of their solely assembly of the season on 1/21, Hingham misplaced 61-46.  However it is a totally different, extra assured Harborwomen staff who has averaged 63 factors a sport and solely allowed 49 factors of their final three video games.  The ladies have a superb shot of successful on Friday in the event that they proceed their aggressive protection and make performs on offense like they’ve been doing for the previous week and half. 
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