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Isabelle Nasti fired a three-hitter and Boston Latin beat Haverhill, 2-0, in the Division 1 North prelims. Hard-luck loser Bryana Michitson hurled a three-hitter with no earned runs.

DANVERS — She slashed to the hoop and crashed the boards, she sunk jumpers from the top of the key and paint, and even swished a shot from a seemingly impossible angle in the corner.

Tewksbury-Methuen's Amanda Conway scored seven goals Wednesday in an 8-2 win over Boston Latin to break her own single-season state girls hockey record.
The Methuen High senior now has 67 goals, one more than last winter.  And she has at least four games left ... 3 regular season then the state tourney.
The Red Rangers improved to 11-3-1.
Conway has one more major record in her sights. The state career record, according to masshshockey.com, is 206 by Colleen Sanborn, a 2005 Woburn High grad. Of course, she did it in four years while the Tewksbury-Methuen coop team has only been around for three years. Still, Conway has 185 goals (52, 66, 67).
Third-year assistant coach Dan Merry filled in last night for head coach Arianna Rigano, who had to work at her school's parent-teacher conference.
Merry said of Conway, "She has tremendous hands to go along with tremendous speed. Her third attribute is her battery. Her energy. She could almost play the entire game."
When you put up those improbable scoring numbers, she couldn't be playing defense, right?
Merry quickly shot down that theory.
"She makes a concerted effort to play defense, too. Absolutely she plays defense."
When asked if Conway showed anything new Wednesday, Merry said, "Pretty much every game she's done something I've never seen before from here. Every game she does something a little different, a little new."
Merry said don't overlook her leadership either.
"The coaches would agree is the best thing is how she has grown as a person," said Merry. "She's a two-year captain. And it's a very, very young team with a lot of 6th graders and 7th graders."

Goals in a season
Name School Year Goals
Amanda Conway Tewks-Methuen 2015 67
Amanda Conway Tewks-Methuen 2014 66
Brittany Lyons Canton 2008 60

Career Goals
Name School Grad Goals
Colleen Sanborn Woburn 2005 206
Sara York Watertown 2002 203
Brittany Lyons Canton 2008 196
Brittani Lanzilli St. Mary's 2014 187
Amanda Conway Tewks-Methuen 2015 185

Source: masshshockey.com

Katherine Capobianco broke up a play at center ice, took it into the zone and passed off to Amanda Regan. She then fired a pass threw three defenders to Tess Higgins, who finished the goal midway through the second to give HPNA a 1-0 win over Boston Latin.

Haverhill spotted Boston Latin a three-goal lead then rallied with four goals in the third, as the Hillies earned a 5-3 victory. Josh Goldstein scored two goals and Kyle Gosselin had a goal and two assists for the winners.

Behind a game-high 18 points for tourney MVP Amanda Williams and 10 points for tourney all-star Casey Walsh, Central Catholic rolled over Boston Latin 52-38 in the finals of the IAABO tourney. Alex Nagri added eight poins for the winners.

Methuen won another late thriller as Ryan Bradley scored the equalizer with four minutes left and Mark Picirillo added the game winner with 90 seconds left to beat Boston Latin 2-1. Christian Mazzone made 19 saves.

Central Catholic downed Boston Latin, 11-4, in the Division 1 North quarterfinals. Krista Maloney belted a long homer and Olivia Antczak and Meg Sears combined for win.

Jess Leone, Caroline Hughes and Mary Latona each scored one goal and assisted on another as Andover blasted Boston Latin 6-0.

The first-year Methuen-Tewksbury varsity co-op team had quite the debut, blanking Boston Latin 8-0. Kelly Golini and Amanda Conway each had a hat trick. Golini, McCarthy and Kathleen LeFebre contributed two assists apiece. Taylor Lirakis posted the shutout for the "Red Rangers", which the girls have dubbed themselves.