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12 WEEKLYNEWS.NET - 978-532-5880 MARCH 22, 2018<br />
Fenwick’s senior class really bonded this year<br />
By Mike Alongi<br />
WOBURN — The Bishop<br />
Fenwick girls basketball senior class<br />
has been through a lot together.<br />
Of the four seniors, two of them<br />
— Jennie Meagher and Fredi<br />
DeGuglielmo — have been to four<br />
consecutive Division 3 North title<br />
games and played in 16 total tournament<br />
games. All four of them —<br />
Meagher, DeGuglielmo, Courtney<br />
Norton and Mary O’Brien — were<br />
on the team that won the state<br />
championship in 2016. And on<br />
Wednesday evening, their storied<br />
Fenwick career came to a close in<br />
the state semifinals at the hands of<br />
Archbishop Williams.<br />
“This whole senior class is a<br />
tough, hard working group that<br />
never quits,” said Fenwick coach<br />
Adam DeBaggis after the Crusaders’<br />
69-51 Division 3 state semifinal loss<br />
to Archbishop William.<br />
“They’ve been through a lot together<br />
over the past few years,” he<br />
said.<br />
DeBaggis had nothing but positive<br />
things to say about each one of<br />
his seniors, saying that Meagher, the<br />
lone senior captain, has shown massive<br />
improvements.<br />
“This year, Jennie has shown<br />
bigger improvement from year to<br />
year than any player I’ve seen in a<br />
long time,” he said after Meagher<br />
put up 10 points, 14 rebounds and<br />
Elementary March Madness<br />
PHOTO | ANNE MARIE TOBIN<br />
Jennie Meagher scored 10 points<br />
and pulled down 14 rebounds<br />
against Williams.<br />
four blocks in Wednesday’s loss.<br />
As for DeGuglielmo, she’s the<br />
heart and soul of the Crusaders,<br />
even playing through an Achilles<br />
injury on Wednesday night.<br />
“Losing Fredi is going to be tough<br />
because she is so enthusiastic out<br />
there,” DeBaggis said. “She was<br />
playing through some pain tonight<br />
and still put up the same fight and<br />
intensity that she always has.”<br />
DeBaggis also pointed to<br />
O’Brien, a role player, as the hardest<br />
worker on the whole team.<br />
“Mary is the hardest working girl<br />
we have at practice everyday,” he<br />
said. “I didn’t tell her enough how<br />
great she’s been this year, but she<br />
really has.”<br />
And then there’s Norton, who<br />
went from role player last year to<br />
starting point guard this year.<br />
“Courtney is just a great person<br />
and a great personality on the team,”<br />
DeBaggis said. “Going from a small<br />
role last year into a starting role this<br />
year was big for her and she handled<br />
it beautifully.”<br />
As the final seconds wound down<br />
in their loss to Archbishop Williams,<br />
the seniors remained on the floor<br />
until the final buzzer sounded.<br />
Despite fighting off tears while on<br />
the court, the Crusaders fought hard<br />
Catering<br />
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SU CHANG’S<br />
until the very end, even diving after<br />
a loose ball with under 30 seconds to<br />
go and down by 18 points.<br />
“That’s just how this team plays<br />
every night,” DeBaggis said. “I<br />
asked the seniors if they wanted to<br />
stay on the floor at the end, and they<br />
did, even fighting through the tears.<br />
These girls have played together for<br />
four years, some of them for nine<br />
years if you count the AAU ball, and<br />
it’s an emotional thing when you<br />
look up and see that your season is<br />
ending like that. But these girls have<br />
been a huge part of our program for<br />
years now, and they’ll definitely be<br />
missed.”<br />
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