During the high school basketball offseason, Katie McGrotty worked on her outside shooting, mainly to benefit the offense for the new AAU team she had joined. That work helped the Pinelands Regional girls basketball team on Jan. 14.

“With my new AAU team, the coach wanted all five players on the court to be able to shoot from the outside, so I started getting better with that,” said McGrotty, whose three-pointer with 4:41 to go ultimately ended up as the winning bucket during a 44-35 victory…