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Carney’s 1000th highlights BG win over Mercy

By Tom King - Staff Writer | Jan 26, 2020

Telegraph photo by TOM KING Bishop Guertin senior Erin Carney is held up by her teammates, celebrating her 1,000th career point after the Cardinals' 68-46 win over Mercy on Saturday.

NASHUA – Early on, you couldn’t blame Bishop Guertin High School girls basketball standout Erin Carney if she doubted 1,000 would be her lucky number on Saturday.

Needing six points to reach that career scoring mark, she had gone 0-for-4 from the floor against Mercy High School of Middletown, Conn. But the shots finally started to fall, and with 5:16 left in the first half of a 68-46 Cardinals rout, Carney’s easy layup got her to four figures.

“I knew it was going to start like that, all the emotion and everyone cheering,” Carney said after she finished with a game-high 19 points. “I just had to keep my head screwed on straight and know that eventually it would come.”

“It was awesome,” Cards coach Brad Kreick said. “Everybody was so excited about it, you could tell Erin was playing it cool but she was a little sideways too, early, you could just see it. Getting it done, and past her, was a really good thing.”

And so was the Cardinal performance which brings their record to 9-0 on the Division I season. Mercy, which thumped Guertin here two years ago and lost in a tighter game last year, is in a much different rebuilding mode with eight freshmen and two sophmores and fell to 4-9.

But the Tigers saw the same Guertin team they always have.

“They’re always very good,” Mercy coach Tim Kohs said. “They do a great job of getting those kids better. …They’re very talented, skilled at every spot. … Very impressed.”

“We were much closer to our kind of a consistent, aggressive, tough mindset for 24 or 25 minutes when things were rolling,” Kreick said. “I think a really good step in the right direction for us.”

The game wasn’t really as close as the final score indicated. Guertin led 22-7, 39-23, and 58-36 at the stops and Kreick was able to use just about the entire roster.The Cards also got 14 points each from Addison Smith and Brianna Wilcox. Sophie Hedge led Mercy with 11 points.

With the win, the Cards wrapped up a very big week that saw them escape danger at Manchester Memorial, overcome a halftime deficit with an incredible second half surge against Pinkerton, and then beat an out-of-state rival and have arguably their top player achieve a career milestone in the process.

“The most important thing is we got three wins against three real good basketball teams,” Kreick said. “We didn’t have a hiccup in that regard.

“I think we learned a lot about our team, mostly good stuff. But when you play good things you see some things you need to clean up. But we came through the week healthy; came through the week with three wins, and I think we come out of this week by a significant margin a much better team than we were going into the week. Hard to ask for more than that.”

And the drama is over for Carney as she’s now a member of the 1,000-point club.

“It’s a great accomplishment, but I certainly couldn’t have done it without my team,” Carney said. “Hannah (Muchemore), Addy, Bri, Aria (O’Connell), were a big part in helping me get here.

“It’s a normal game, just have to play team basketball, our basktball, and my points will come.”

And with that, Guertin’s wins keep coming as well.

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