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Kulak, Howard win shootout

Print | Comments () Posted by Brendan Hall, Globe Correspondent February 14, 2009 03:28 PM

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Boys and girls from 23 area high schools provided stiff competition in this morning's 23rd annual ProLogo Design Three-Point Shootout, which was held at Hopkinton High School. Both finals went down to the wire; Wellesley's Evan Kulak defeated Lincoln-Sudbury's Mitch Perez in the boys finals, while Medway's Katy Howard beat Algonquin Regional's Jen Ballen in the girls' finals.

Kulak frayed in the middle of the pack through the early rounds, but got hot late. In the final four, he connected for the day's highest single-round total (11 points). In the final round, he tied with Perez with eight points.

Perez trailed Kulak, 8-6, headed into the final rack, but made two clutch shots at the end to send it into overtime. In the first tiebreaker (one ball is placed on each of the four racks), Kulak hit three of four to best Perez, 3-1.

"I didn't think I'd make it past the first round," said Kulak, who averages 16.3 points for the 7-10 Raiders. "This is an amazing feeling. I'm really happy right now."

Howard, a senior committed to Assumption College, started off hot, and stayed consistent -- in the last three rounds, she totaled 24 points. She won by hitting the two-point moneyball on the final rack to beat out Ballen, 8-7.

"Once you get going, you're just in the zone," said Howard, who leads the Tri-Valley League in scoring (17.4 ppg). "I was pumped."

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