Girls basketball Week 10: Rocky Hill is young but ready for postseason

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17-02-2025

The Rocky Hill girls basketball team advanced to the Class MM quarterfinals last year, where the Terriers lost to eventual champion Northwest Catholic.
The Terriers had a lot of sophomores on that team, and now they're juniors and have continued their success. Rocky Hill finished the regular season 16-4 and as the sixth seed, will play in the first round of the CCC tournament Tuesday against No. 11 Enfield.
'We're still a young team,' Rocky Hill coach Pete Asadourian said. 'They're meshing at the right time. They're playing well.'
Junior Kelsey LaMay leads the team in scoring (21 ppg) but another junior Katie Harding isn't far behind (19 ppg).
Rocky Hill lost twice to Southington, which is 19-1 and ranked second in Class LL, and East Catholic, which is ranked first ahead of Rocky Hill in Class MM, and Plainville in early January.
'I think we've shown we can hang with anyone,' Asadourian said. 'Southington is very good. East Catholic, we had a late lead and we blew that. We had leads in all of our games, with the exception of that second Southington game.
'I think it was immaturity; that was one thing we talked about. We are immature from a basketball sense. If we're up, we have to learn how to finish a game.'
Urielle Abrokwa, East Catholic: Abrowski scored 21 points in a 60-50 win over Glastonbury Friday.
Maddie Benigni, Mercy: Benigni scored her 1,000th career point, going 12 for 12 from the free throw line, with a 32-point performance in a 55-48 win over Foran Friday and scored 39 points in a 75-52 win over Hamden Monday.
Zola Cudjoe, St. Paul: Cudjoe had 22 points, 12 rebounds and six steals in a 46-28 win over Woodland Friday and 20 points and 15 rebounds in a 45-30 win over Seymour Tuesday.
Peyton Kelleher, Cromwell: Kelleher had 25 points in a 49-37 win over North Branford Tuesday.
Kylie Lake, Old Saybrook: Lake had a double-double (17 points, 13 rebounds) and seven blocks on Senior Night in 54-30 win over Portland Tuesday.
Madison Handrahan, Glastonbury: Handrahan scored 28 points, including five 3-pointers, and had eight rebounds and two assists in a 60-50 loss to East Catholic Friday and 22 points, including five 3-pointers, six assists and four steals in a win over E.O. Smith Tuesday.
Kaitlyn Novak, Bacon Academy: Novak scored 21 points and had 10 steals and four assists in a 54-23 victory over East Lyme Friday and 25 points and five rebounds and four assists in a 71-34 win over Waterford Tuesday.
Solana Ortiz, Platt: Ortiz had 26 points, along with 10 rebounds and four assists, in a 42-33 win over Wethersfield Tuesday.
Sadie Passante, Morgan: Passante had 30 points, seven steals and four assists in a 63-50 win over Branford Wednesday and scored 20 points and had five steals in a 43-23 win over East Hampton Tuesday.
Symber Sutton, Innovation: Sutton had 16 points and eight rebounds in a 60-43 win over Cromwell Thursday.
Sophie Tumulis, Stafford: Tumulis had 17 rebounds, 12 points, three steals and three blocks in a 36-31 loss to Tolland Thursday.
Bristol Central (15-5) knocked off Conard 49-46 Tuesday despite a 28-point effort from Conard's Emily Knowles. Molly McMahon hit what proved to be the game-winning 3-pointer for Bristol Central with under a minute left to break a 46-46 tie. Kamaria Bowens had 21 points to lead Bristol Central, which had lost to Conard 52-42 on Jan. 2. Conard (17-3) hadn't lost since Jan. 21.
But Bristol Central's euphoria didn't last long as Bristol Eastern (12-8) beat the crosstown rival Rams 46-38 two days later and the last game of the regular season for both. Bristol Eastern won seven of its last eight games, with only a loss to Conard in the middle.
Conference tournaments start this week, with the CCC tournament starting with first round games Tuesday. East Catholic is the top seed and will host Lewis Mills; Southington is the second seed and host face No. 15 South Windsor and Northwest Catholic is the No. 3 seed and will host No. 14 Newington. The quarterfinals will take place Thursday night, the semifinals Saturday at Southington High and the finals Monday at the University of Hartford. Windsor is the defending champion.