Belmont Hoops: Nerves, Press Swamp Girls' at Reading, Third Quarter Let Down Sink Boys'
Double dip to Reading as teams set to meet Woburn on Tuesday.
Belmont Head Coach Melissa Hart just shook her head when she was asked the factors that led to the Belmont High School Girls' Basketball team to the second- ranked team in Eastern Massachusetts. "We were just so nervous. Even when the pressure wasn't there, we were throwing the ball out of bounds," said Hart after her Mauraders (7-2) fell to host Reading High School, 57-39, Friday night, Jan. 11. "Reading is very good but we did not play our best," said Hart. "It shouldn't have been that hard of a game." Adding to the team's case of the jitters was a near suffocating full-court press from a highly-athletic team led by the best female baller in the state in senior forward/guard Olivia Healy who scored 19 to lead the Rockets to a 8-0 start …
