EPPING — The Kennett High girls’ basketball team closed the book on its “One Team One Mission” summer tournament tour by going a perfect 6-0 and repeating as the Battle at the Crossroads champions in Epping last weekend.
The tournament was the third in three weeks for the Eagles who were runners-up at the St. Joseph’s College Tournament in Standish, Maine July 9-10; and won the annual New Hampshire Technical Institute Girls High School Tournament in Concord on July 16. The girls from Conway went 14-2 over three weeks.
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