Basketball Team Rallies Behind Injured Star
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CORINTH - When the Lady Devils of Central High School took the basketball court Thursday night, they were without a teammate, friend, and leader. An early Wednesday morning car crash landed their starting senior guard Max McHugh in the hospital with serious injuries.
"For Max" -- that's how the Central High School girls' basketball team began their game against lee Thursday night. Just one day earlier, standout senior guard and multi-sport athlete Max McHugh was seriously injured in a car accident on her way to school.
According to a Central teacher, who was just a few cars behind the accident, Max collided with another vehicle head-on.
When Max's coach visited her in the hospital before surgery on a broken leg, Max's first words were: "I'm sorry." Coach Diane Rollins says that Max always puts the team first, and felt like she had let them down. Rollins assured Max that was not the case.
In honor of Max, her teammates hung her jersey on the wall of the gym, wore wristbands embrodiered with her #10, and her favorite color ribbons in their hair. Unfortunately the Central Lady Devils would go on to lose the contest... however it was only by a few points, an outcome many did not think would be possible without the star player on the court.
Brittany Devane
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Brittany Devane joined the WVII and WFVX news team as an Enterprise Reporter in August 2012. She is originally from Framingham, MA and attended school at Boston University. She came to Maine after spending the summer in London covering the 2012 Olympic Games for GoLocal Worcester, and has also spent time working for NESN as a Boston Bruins and Hockey East production intern, and WCVB Channel 5 Boston as an intern for Chronicle, the station's nightly news magazine show. She's an avid hockey and football fan, and loves spending time with friends and family back home, and exploring all Maine has to offer!
