{"id":1666,"date":"2015-03-05T14:37:09","date_gmt":"2015-03-05T14:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/?p=1666"},"modified":"2015-03-05T22:15:33","modified_gmt":"2015-03-05T22:15:33","slug":"girls-hockey-boys-basketball-advance-in-tournaments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/2015\/03\/05\/girls-hockey-boys-basketball-advance-in-tournaments\/","title":{"rendered":"Girls Hockey, Boys Basketball Advance In Tournaments"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"rickard\"<\/a>Williston’s girls hockey and boys basketball teams advanced to the \u00a0semi-final round in\u00a0their respective tournaments, while the girls basketball team came up\u00a0just short on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

The girls hockey team (20-0-4) fell behind Choate early in the game, but rallied in the second period behind two goals by Rachel Rockwell ’16 and one by Delaney Belinskas ’16 to take a 3-1 lead. In the third period Williston limited Choate’s offensive chances until late in the game when goaltender Morgan Fisher ’16 made a couple of key saves. The Wildcats will host sixth seed St. Paul’s School in the semi-final round at 3:00 p.m. at Lossone Arena.\u00a0The championship game will be played on Sunday, March 8 at 3:00 p.m. at Berkshire School.<\/p>\n

\"ross\"<\/a>The boys basketball team (21-3) came out on top in a spirited contest with two-time defending champion Phillips Exeter Academy. The Wildcats rallied from an eight point deficit with 10 minutes to go to take a late lead and held on for a 61-56 win. Jake Ross ’16 scored 17 of his game high 27 points in the second half to spark Williston. The boys will host six\u00a0seeded Tabor Academy in the semi-final round at 1:00 p.m. at the Williston Athletic Center. The championship game will be played on Sunday, March 8 at 1:00 p.m. at Endicott College in Beverly, MA.<\/p>\n

The girls basketball team (18-4) fell to Pomfret School 59-56. The Wildcats led by one at halftime, but Pomfret built a 10 point lead in the second half. Williston cut that lead to two\u00a0points late in the game, \u00a0but was unable to get any closer. Williston was led by Natalia Baum’s team-high 22 points.<\/p>\n

The semi-final games will both be held at Williston on Saturday, March 7. The boys basketball team will take on Tabor Academy at 1:00 p.m., and the girls hockey team will face St. Paul’s at 3:00 p.m.<\/p>\n

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Williston’s girls hockey and boys basketball teams advanced to the \u00a0semi-final round in\u00a0their respective tournaments, while the girls basketball team came up\u00a0just short on Wednesday. The girls hockey team (20-0-4) fell behind Choate early in the game, but rallied in the second period behind two goals by Rachel Rockwell ’16 and one by Delaney Belinskas … Continue reading Girls Hockey, Boys Basketball Advance In Tournaments<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-athletics-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1666"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1666"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1674,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1666\/revisions\/1674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}