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The unbeaten Andover girls basketball team faced a tough test with Rhode Island power LaSalle (15-2), which had only a loss to a New York City team, and came away with an impressive 66-57 victory.

Nicole Boudreau's never been one to quiver in a rivalry game, so with a trip to North Andover's Crozier Fieldhouse on the agenda Sunday, she turned it up a notch.

The Boston College-bound senior netted a game-high 22 points, adding 13 boards, 6 assists and six steals as the top-rated Warriors made it 14-0 with a convincing, 66-39, win over the Knights.

Ally Fazio hit two big 3-pointers and forced a tough late 3-pointer as Andover survived upset-minded Billerica, 53-52. Fazio harrassed the Indians into an air ball but they scored a layup at the buzzer. Billerica led 41-40 after three. Nicole Boudreau (23 points, 6 3-pointers) and Andover had just enough for their 25th straight win.

Nicole Boudreau netted 30 points, including converting four 3-pointers, to lead Andover to a 82-47 victory over Dracut. 

The Golden Warriors remain undefeated at 11-0.

Ally Fazio scored 15 points and added five assists as Andover rolled over former postseason rival Lowell 61-36. Jackie Alois added 12 points for the winners.

In her first game back from the shoulder injury that cost her the first eight games of basketball and the entire soccer season, Olivia Biles scored a game-high 14 points including two 3-pointers as Andover beat Notre Dame 59-38.

LAWRENCE — Andover star Nicole Boudreau doesn’t shoot many airballs, but she did have one during the first half against Central yesterday.  

“It was pretty bad,” Boudreau said, describing her entire first half. 

NORTH ANDOVER — Only a program that has won two consecutive state titles would consider a big holiday extravaganza as just another item on a to-do list, but that’s obviously what the Greater Lawrence Christmas Tournament has become for Andover.

NORTH ANDOVER — When the girls’ brackets came out for the Greater Lawrence Christmas Tournament, it might have been easy to extrapolate a possible championship game between the top two programs in the area.

If North Andover coach Sue Breen was hoping to get a scouting report on her Greater Lawrence Christmas Tourney semifinal opponent, she was out of luck as Andover’s starters were needed for less than five minutes.
If there were any concerns how the Golden Warriors (4-0) would respond returning to the court less than 24 hours after a 66-52 victory over Archbishop Williams, they were quickly erased.
Even playing without senior guard Ally Fazio, who woke up yesterday with a left eye swollen shut from an elbow taken the night before, Andover forced turnovers on 11 of Lawrence’s first 13 possessions and scored the game’s first 17 points.
Andover coach Jim Tildsley said, “They’re in good shape, and they know what they have to do. We came out firing and hit all our shots. In three minutes we were up by 17 points, so I thought it was time to let the other kids play and rest the starters.”
The only starter to see any court time after the quick start was sophomore Rebecca Alois, who scored a team-high nine points while replacing Fazio. Alois was joined by a few other youngsters as she, sophomore Jessica Witten (8), and freshmen Rachael Cormier (6) and Talia Dellatto (4) combined to score 27 points.
“This was good,” Tildsley said. “I thought our young kids got a lot out of it, and I thought they played well.”
Lawrence (0-3) got eight points from Kiara Rodriguez and six from Elisandra Valentin.
“That’s the best team in the state,” Lawrence coach Dan Blouin said of the two-time defending state champs. “We knew it, our kids knew they were going to come out fast. They’re going to press and they’re going to run, that’s their game plan. I told my kids it doesn’t matter who we’re playing out there ... don’t quit.”
The win set up a rare encounter with North Andover on Tuesday.
“North Andover is well coached,” Tildsley said. “My former assistant (Megan Pinksten) is now their JV coach, so she knows us very well. She knows our program, and this is a rivalry so we’ll have to be ready to go.”