Two tall, too good: Weymouth girls basketball scaling new heights with star post players

WEYMOUTH – Now that everyone's back in school, here's a math problem: 6-foot-4 + 6-foot-1 = ???

Well, let's just say the answer is a big problem for opponents who step on the court with the Weymouth High girls basketball team.

The Wildcats' two senior pillars – Callie Flynn (she's the 6-foot-4 one) and Megan Doyle – have been posting eye-popping numbers this winter in helping Weymouth race out to a 6-2 start. Doyle is averaging 20.1 points per game and has recorded seven double-doubles. Flynn is averaging 14.5 points and has four double-doubles.

"We work really well together," said Flynn, who's been on varsity since 10th grade. "Our energy bounces off each other."

"Callie and I have really clicked this year," agreed Doyle, who's headed to Yale to play lacrosse. "We've been playing together since eighth grade, so it feels great to have this connection during our senior year."

On Friday night, Doyle scored a game-high 18 points (plus 11 rebounds, 4 assists and 5 steals) in a 47-27 win over Bay State Conference Herget Division rival Milton that stretched Weymouth's win streak to six games after an 0-2 start to the season. Flynn chipped in 8 points, 5 rebounds and 3 blocks. That was her lowest point total of the season – an indication of how far her offensive game has come.

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"Callie played a ton of AAU with the (MT Elite) Ducks program over the summer and she's definitely gotten much better inside," Weymouth coach Doug Kirby said. "She's got a little bit of an outside shot, too, but she doesn't shoot it as much as maybe she should."

Flynn set a career high with 19 points in last year's preliminary round playoff win over Everett but beat that with a 24-point outing against Braintree on Dec. 19 – a game in which she added 12 rebounds and 5 blocks.

"I felt like I was really in the game (mentally)," Flynn said of her performance in a 48-37 victory. "I didn't even realize I had gotten so many points until Coach told me."

Flynn also had big games against Walpole (16 points, 10 rebounds), Silver Lake (18 points, 11 rebounds, 5 blocks) and Marshfield (14 points, 7 rebounds, 8 blocks). Asked if she thinks Flynn's game has taken off, Doyle said, "100%. She's only grown since her freshman year. I'm really glad that I get to be a part of it."

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Doyle certainly has kept pace with her classmate, posting monster numbers against Quincy (career-high 33 points, 10 rebounds), Needham (27 points, 15 rebounds), Silver Lake (19 points, 17 rebounds) and Marshfield (24 points, 13 rebounds, 4 steals, 4 blocks).

"At the beginning of the year, the refs called us the 'Twin Towers,'" Doyle said. "(Opponents) usually send a lot of people at us and get in our faces. It's very physical, but we're used to it."

Milton coach Kyle West pointed out that few girls teams can boast that kind of a 1-2 post punch.

"Even in boys basketball when I was coaching up in the North Shore for a long time," he said, "you'd have one pretty big post player who lived in the post. But Weymouth's got two, and Doyle can do it all."

Milton's chances of handling Weymouth's size advantage took a big hit when 6-foot sophomore center Victoria Fish was lost for the night to an ankle injury midway through the first quarter. Fish was coming off a big double-double herself in the final of the Revere Holiday Tournament.

"Losing our height was tough," West said. "I feel bad for (Fish) because she's put in so much work. She's really starting to find a groove lately. Hopefully, she's OK."

With Fish out, Doyle and Flynn eventually imposed their collective will. Doyle hit a sweet reverse layup in the second quarter. Moments later, Flynn caught an entry pass in the blocks while double-teamed, kept the ball above her head, spun and found Macy Lippencott open in the corner for a 3-pointer for a 23-10 lead. Doyle closed out the half with a three-point play for a 30-14 cushion and then rattled in a 3-pointer herself in the third.

"I'm so lucky to have both of them," Kirby said, "because they're great kids and they work really well together."

Weymouth made great strides last season, finishing 12-10 and ending a couple of long droughts – the Wildcats made the MIAA playoffs for the first time since 2012 and a won a game (57-33 vs. Everett) for the first time since 2009.

With Doyle and Flynn at the top of their games, Weymouth can dream even bigger this winter.

"It really changed our ideas about ourselves," Doyle said of last year's success. "We can actually go far. We never really had that idea before, but now we've done it before, so why not go further this year?"

NOTES: Sophie Fish led Milton (3-4, 0-3 Herget) with 7 points. ... Sophomore point guard Maggie Cullivan was everywhere for Weymouth (6-2, 2-2) early on with at least 4 steals in the first quarter. ... Milton once again is building around its defense; the Wildcats are allowing just 34.7 points per game. "That's our trademark," West said. "We have a lot of younger girls who are starting to get it. Defensively we're there. We still have work to do (offensively)."