Top-Seeded Oliver Ames Girls' Basketball Suffers Stunning First Round Upset
History repeats itslef as the Tigers are upset in the first round for the second year in a row.
For the second year in a row, the Oliver Ames girls' basketball team was upset in the first round of the Div. 2 Massachusetts South Sectional Tournament. Thanks to a 26-10 second half in favor of the underdogs, No. 16 Notre Dame Academy toppled No. 1 Oliver Ames at the Nixon Gymnasium in Easton Wednesday night by a final of 48-38. NDA will move on to play at Holliston Friday at 7 p.m. in a sectional quarter final game. "I don’t think it was a scenario where we took them lightly," OA coach Elaine Clement-Holbrook said. "It was that we didn’t execute and let them hang around, and they started to believe in themselves and hit a couple of shots and we just couldn’t make the shots when we needed to make down the stretch." The shocking loss …
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