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# Three baskets changed the season for Goffstown girls basketball
- URL: https://www.nh-highschoolsports.com/three-baskets-changed-season-goffstown-girls-basketball-team/
- Published: 2016-03-10T16:00:52.000Z
- Updated: 2016-03-10T16:00:52.000Z
- Description: MANCHESTER - When Molly McQueeney corralled a pass from Sarah Doherty on the wing, several feet behind the 3-point line, no one from the Lebanon High School girls basketball team came out to defend her. To that point, the Raiders really had been able to let up a little bit on their perimeter defense
- Author: Joe Marchilena
- Tags: Division II, girls basketball, Goffstown, playoffs, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-08-18 04:44

MANCHESTER - When Molly McQueeney corralled a pass from Sarah Doherty on the wing, several feet behind the 3-point line, no one from the Lebanon High School girls basketball team came out to defend her.

To that point, the Raiders really had been able to let up a little bit on their perimeter defense, as Goffstown was made just 2 of 15 attempts from behind the arc during Monday's Division II semifinal.

But when no one came out to contest McQueeney, the Grizzlies senior let fly a shot that found nothing but the bottom of the net, and pulled Goffstown within six points of Lebanon with 6:44 left in the game.

"She'd been cold a little bit, too," Goffstown coach Deanna Goodwin said of McQueeney. "We hadn't hit too many 3s, so that was a big one."

The Grizzlies hadn't hit many shots, period. After shooting 23.1 percent from the field in the first half, Goffstown was a slightly better in the second, at 32.1 percent, but that shot by McQueeney seemed to turn momentum the Grizzlies' way.

Lebanon would score only four more points the rest of the way, Goffstown would cut the lead to two, and after a missed basket by the Raiders, Doherty grabbed the rebound to give the Grizzlies a chance to tie or take the lead.

Instead, Madeline Hastings knocked the ball away from Doherty, and the Goffstown sophomore dove on the floor with Lebanon's Meredith Melendy to try to regain possession. Doherty did long enough for Goodwin to call a timeout, and with 1:21 to play, set up for a tying shot.

"We knew what we wanted to look for," Goodwin said. "Katie Howe, everyone normally just talks about her 3-point shooting, but she was positing up really well."

Doherty was able to get the ball into Howe, who had little trouble beating Anna Wolke to the basket and put up a shot before Joslin Wainwright could get over to help, tying the game at 35 with 1:09 remaining.

"We practice that all the time," she said. "We put time on the clock and work on baskets just like that. It was just like practice.

"A lot of our outside shots weren't dropping and we realized that we had to have more of an inside game. We tried to get the ball inside to the post and get some layups."

After working time off the clock, Lebanon was called for a travel with 26 seconds remaining, and this time, Goodwin elected to not use a timeout to set up a play.

"After that fourth quarter, the way we were moving, the way everybody was going with it, I trusted them," she said. "We started out in a set play and then it broke down."

The Grizzlies looked to go to Howe again, but the play wasn't there. Instead, Doherty ended up with the ball in her hands to the left of the basket.

"I heard the bench screaming the time, so I was trying to get a shot up," she said. "I looked at the clock before we started the play, and the bench was yelling out the time. It didn't feel like anything. I didn't see it go in. Everyone was just screaming."

Howe did see it go in, and knew the moment Doherty took the shot, that the Grizzlies would be playing for the championship on Friday.

"I had so much confidence in Sarah because she's a great player," Howe said. "I know she can finish like that. As soon as she released that, there were three people on her, and I was like 'oh boy.' I saw it go up and I knew it was game over."