February 27, 2025 – Story and photos by Joshua Ross
The top-seeded Hingham Harborwomen opened their title quest with a convincing 7-0 win over 32nd seed Wellesley on Wednesday night at home. Senior captain Caroline Doherty scored the first two goals bringing her season total to 37 goals. Sophomore Hannah Lasch followed that up with the next two goals to put the game out of reach early in the second period. Junior Katie Teague, sophomore Callie Crean and senior captain Addy Garrity each add one as well. Lasch and Garrity finished with three points on the night.
The defense and goaltending were stellar as usual. Junior Izzy McGarr recorded another shutout for the Harborwomen, while the defense didn’t give Wellesley any space on the ice. The pairings of junior captain CC Flynn and freshman Sam McCabe and sophomores Shea Richardson and Sienna Messina not only do an excellent job keeping the puck in the offensive zone, but consistently generate offense by bringing the puck across center ice and deep into their opponent’s end.
It was another complete game and showed the girls are taking it one game at a time.
“It feels really good,” said Flynn on the win. “I mean, we’ve worked hard all season and I just feel like right now it’s just paying off. We definitely told the underclassmen that nothing in this tournament is guaranteed and just because we’re number one, it doesn’t really mean anything. We told him the story of a couple of years ago, Hingham beating the number one seed as number 32. Definitely just work hard and not take anything for granted.”
As the top seed, the Harborwomen have a favorable side of the bracket. Perennial top teams like NDA, Malden Catholic, and St. Mary’s – last year’s champions who lost in the first round this year, are all on the other side of the bracket. That being said, their Round of 16 match-up is against Shrewsbury, the same team that knocked them out of the tournament two years ago in the quarterfinals in a double OT thriller up in Shrewsbury.
“Everyone needs to stay focused and work hard” Flynn goes onto say about getting ready for the next game. “Every single game in the tournament gets harder as we go. It looks like its going to be Shrewsbury, who got us out a couple of years ago, so that’s definitely gonna be like a motivator because we want show far we come.”
The anticipated rematch will be on Saturday at 4pm at Pilgrim. This will most likely be the Harborwomen’s last game at home as the MIAA will move to an arena that can accommodate more fans as the rounds move on.
