Mansfield girls maul Attleboro

Early on, the Mansfield girls basketball team got an indication it was going to be their night. The signal came when Ann Maher and Jennifer Peel banked in backto-back 3-pointers against Attleboro as part of a 16-2 run to begin the contest.

The Hornets rolled from there with a tenacious defensive effort to come away with a lopsided win, 61-30, in the Hockomock League.

“It was our night. Everything went our way,” Mansfield coach Mike Redding said. “When you’re shootings 3’s and they go off the backboard when you don’t mean them to, it’s a sign it’s going to be a good night.”

The previously unbeaten Blue Bombardiers (8-1, 4-1 Hockomock) were never able to recover against the defensive pressure applied by the still-perfect Hornets (7-0, 5-0). Mansfield forced 22 turnovers and held Attleboro to 20 percent shooting from 3-point range.

“I thought the bottom line was we played really good man-to-man defense,” Redding said. “We play a lot of zone, but we thought the only way we could defend them was man up.”

Peel led the offensive effort with 22 points and Maher finished with 15. In a 16-0 run to open the fourth quarter, Peel and Maher both hit a pair of 3’s.

Sarah Deyo finished with 12 points and 11 rebounds for the Blue Bombardiers.

Sophia Guerrier poured in 36 points for Waltham (72) in a 60-50 victory against Newton South in the Dual County League.

Meaghan Raab had 21 points and 10 rebounds, and Kathryn Fallon added 11 points off the bench, as Hanover (6-1) rolled past Scituate, 61-37, in the Patriot League.

Josie Toussant hit a jumper at the buzzer to give Northeast (5-3) a 39-37 win against Presentation of Mary in a Commonwealth Athletic Conference tilt.

Maddy Fay tallied 17 points as Braintree (6-1) crushed Dedham, 73-41, in the Bay State Conference.

In the South Shore League, M.C. Crumley had 16 points to lead Cohasset (5-4) to a 48-20 victory against Mashpee.

Monica Spain scored 22 points for Archbishop Williams (6-2) in a 74-44 rout of Bishop Fenwick in the Catholic Central League.

Boys basketball

In the Greater Boston League, Mike Thomson led the way with a double-double of 18 points and 14 rebounds as Somerville (5-3) knocked off Medford, 55-42.

Paul Chaote led the way in scoring with 24 points and Ian Kirumira grabbed 22 rebounds, leading Greater Lowell (8-1) past Innovation, 92-74 in a nonleague contest.

Nikko Raftes and Luke Tamulevich finished with 23 and 16 points, respectively, as Whitman-Hanson (6-2) defeated Duxbury, 5747, in the Patriot League.

James Gascoigne had 20 points and 13 rebounds to lead undefeated Arlington (7-0) to a 70-45 drubbing of Woburn in the Middlesex League.

Girls hockey

Emma Tobin recorded her first career hat trick, and Boston Latin (6-0-1) erupted for a 10-0 rout of Latin Academy in a nonleague game.