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Check out highlights of Andover's 60-33 victory over Central Catholic, including video interviews with Golden Warriors stars Nicole Boudreau, Natalie Gomez-Martinez and Ally Fazio and coach Jim Tildsley.

See highlights from Central Catholic's come-from-behind victory over Masconomer in the Division 1 North quarterfinals, including video interviews with Raiders captains Gabie Polce and Melissa Miller and Central coach Sue Downer.

LAWRENCE — Clanging their way through a 25-25 first half with Masconomet last night, the third-seeded Central Catholic girls rode that thin line between urgency and panic perfectly at halftime.

LAWRENCE — Clanging their way through a 25-25 first half with Masconomet last night, the third-seeded Central Catholic girls rode that thin line between urgency and panic perfectly at halftime.

LAWRENCE — A look at the Central Catholic girls score last night and you would think the heavily favored Raiders took care of business against visiting Westford Academy. Nothing, however, came easy for No. 3 seed in the opening round of the Division 1 North Sectionals.

Down by nine points with 2 minutes left against Newton South, the Central girls basketball team rallied to send the game into overtime. From there, the Raiders posted a 73-70 victory in the championship game of the Comcast tourney. This is the fourth straight year that Central has won the tourney. 

Casey McLaughlin scored 20 points and pulled in 12 rebounds as Central Catholic overcame a shaky start (down 13-7 after one) to defeat Arlington Catholic, 55-47.  The Raiders play Newton South, today at 2:30 p.m. in  the championship game.

 Central Catholic clinched the save of the MVC title with a 65-33 win over Methuen.

LAWRENCE — It seemed like nothing would change.

Despite having a decided height advantage, Central Catholic couldn’t get consistent production in the paint against unbeaten Andover in its first two battles. The hard defensive work of Jackie Alois and Nicole Boudreau down low prevailed before and threatened to work again through the first half of Round 3 yesterday.

Central Catholic's girls found themselves trailing 18-10 after the first quarter before outscoring Billerica 22-8 in the second quarter on their way to a 63-40 victory. Alex Borrelli had a season-high 16 points for the Raiders (13-2). Casey McLaughlin had nine rebounds and four blocks to go along with 18 points.