3 cheers for Lydia: Merrimack's 3-point shot queen finds her groove in final season

NORTH ANDOVER — Two years ago, after her sophomore season, Lydia Melashenko sat across from Merrimack coach Kelly Morrone and heard the kind of blunt honesty that changes careers. “If you don’t change, your role here doesn’t change,” Morrone told her. Lydia, averaging just three points in limited minutes over those first two seasons, felt blindsided. “I was stunned,” Lydia remembers. “Nobody ...