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(VIDEO) winchester outlasts hingham in a thriller
By Mike Abelson (@ABELS0N)
ANDOVER – After a designed play out of a timeout ended with a missed shot Winchester had to improvise.
With its game against Hingham tied at 10, with 15 seconds left, the Sachems needed to pull something out of its bag of tricks or face the prospect of overtime. Dan O'Connell took the ball from the endline, dodged, and spun through a defender to goal line extended.
He lofted a pass through the lane to a cutting Jack Carpini, who quick-sticked it home with 9.7 seconds left to give the Sachems and electrifying 11-10 win over the Harbormen in the opening round of the Coaches Challenge.
“I saw [O'Connell] c