Christian Mielcarek / For The ItemSt. Mary’s continues to play stellar basketball, and although they waited until the waning moments to grab victory from Williams, Bria Tiro’s steal and a five-foot running jumper by Tori Faieta gave the Spartans their fifth win in a row by the score of 50-49.”Their two-time defending state champs,” said St. Mary’s (10-4) coach Jeff Newhall. “We were trailing at the end of the second and third, and in the fourth quarter there were four ties and five different lead changes in the final four minutes.”Tiro drained five three-pointers and was the game’s high-scorer with 17, and Faieta scored 14 and grabbed 11 boards.The Spartan defense did well to hold Williams’ 6-4 center, Val Driscoll, to 11 points, a player Newhall reported is being recruited by Division 1 college programs.Lynnfield 46, Amesbury 32At Lynnfield, after beginning the season 4-4 prior to a four game losing streak, the Pioneers (5-8) put one in the win column much to the delight of coach Bill Adams.”We had nice team offence, nice team defense holding them to only 32 points, and a good team win,” Adams said. “We needed this.”Alison Newell was Lynnfield’s high-scorer with 11 points and also pulled down a team-high 11 rebounds. Sarah Goldstein contributed with eight points and 10 boards to help drop Amesbury to 5-9 on the season.Whittier 47, Tech 25At Tech, the Tigers wanted to avenge a 49-point loss at the hands of Whittier in the first game of the season and played their best game of the year, but it was still not enough for coach Kevin McDormand and his Tech (1-9) team.”This is by far the best we’ve played, and that includes our win,” McDormand said. “We gave them more of a game than they were expecting.”Jenna Kulakowski was her team’s high-scorer with nine points on three treys. McDormand was especially pleased with the effort of Maya Sewell on the defensive end.”Maya played a perfect game,” he said. “She covered their best player and held her to one field goal. She’s their star player and averages about 20 a night.”Fanice-Jean Baptiste and Octavia Harper scored seven apiece.Spellman 50, Fenwick 46At Spellman, Crusader (8-3) Bridget Dullea scored a game-high 24 in addition to three rebounds, seven steals and five assists, but it was not enough to maintain second place in the Central Catholic League.Lizzy Trainor scored 10, and Lauran DiCarlo had only three points, but contributed in other ways with seven rebounds and five steals.Spellman is now 9-3 and has sole possession of second place behind undefeated Arlington Catholic.Danvers 57, Classical 28At Danvers, Kelly McDonald scored 20 points as Danvers moved to 8-4. Hannah Byrne led the Rams with eight points.Danvers only led by one (18-17) at the half, but poured it on in the final two quarters.”The effort’s there,” said Classical (3-10) coach Tom Sawyer, “but we’re not having much success.”Salem 59, M’Head 45At Marblehead, the Magicians (0-12) played their best game of the season according to coach Sharlene Blake.”I’m most definitely happy with the effort,” Blake said. “There was a lot of effort, great rebounding and we only committed four turnovers. I’m very pleased.”Marblehead trailed by two at the half and by five at the end of three until a 12-3 fourth quarter run by the Witches ended the Magicians’ hope at their win of the season.Beverly 62, Saugus 55At Saugus, the Sachems hit a three with seven seconds remaining to force overtime but were outscored by the Panthers 13-6 in the extra session.Panther (8-4) Jess Shaw had 17 points and six steals, and Jen Ashton dropped in 16.Swampscott 55, Peabody 37At Swampscott, Kara Gilberg has 16 points and six steals and Allie Beaulieu poured in 20 as the Big Blue moved to 12-1.Marissa Gambale handed out nine assists.Ginny Fleming had 12 points for the Tanners. Janelle Rodriguez pulled down seven rebounds.Peabody is 5-7 overall, 5-5 in the Northeastern Conference/Large.Winthrop 50, Revere 44At Winthrop, Katerina Mallios had 15 points and Cou