LYNN – There’s one thing you can say for certain about this year’s English girls basketball team: Whenever Jenicia Duggins is in the game, you’d better watch.Duggins, a sophomore, is quick as a cat and smooth as silk around the basket. When she’s in the game, she’s electric.The problem last night was that she wasn’t in the game for huge stretches due to foul trouble. And when she wasn’t, things slowed down considerably.Still, she played the entire fourth quarter with four fouls on her, and literally took over the game. The result was a good one for English – a 59-54 season-opening win over Salem.Duggins came back into the game at the beginning of the quarter with English clinging to a three-point lead (42-39). Considering that the Bulldogs had opened the game with a 9-0 run, Salem had worked hard to turn the momentum around, and the Witches stood poised to overtake English in the final eight minutes.Forget that. Duggins scored 12 of her team’s 15 fourth-quarter points (she finished with a game-high 24). Not only that, she was all over the court, stealing the ball, hounding dribblers ? the works.”And she did it with four fouls, too,” said Salem coach John Fortunato. “She played some serious minutes with four fouls on her, and that’s a credit to her. She just took over the game.”English’s Fred Hogan had to deal with foul troubles from both of his marquee players. Jeanette Anderson fouled out midway through the fourth quarter, and she was on the bench for large stretches as well. She finished with nine points, but was still a force on the boards for the time she was in there.”The best thing for us,” he said, “is that when they were out, we had four freshmen on the floor. I told them before the game they’d have to grow up on the court, and that’s what we did. I was proud of them.”Hogan also noted that even though Salem had climbed back into the game after three quarters, “We didn’t give up the lead. That was huge.”Hogan credited senior Trinity Neubert (seven points) for steadying the freshmen who were on the court with her.”She’s one of our two seniors, and we needed her to come up big,” Hogan said. “And she did. This may have been her best game as a Bulldog.”Neubert, who was bothered in the second half with a calf cramp, played good defense to keep Salem from really surging ahead ? and it helped English hold the fort until Duggins and Anderson could return in the fourth quarter.English started as if it would run the Witches back to Salem, scoring the first nine points and taking a 15-4 lead at one point.”The kids were nervous,” said Fortunato. “We’ve seen English. We know what they do. It was just a case of our first couple of shots didn’t go in. But once we got one, things settled down.”Salem got balanced scoring, with freshman Jasmine Bryant leading the way with 15 points, followed by Amanda Wilkins (11), Lougianna Rijo (10) and Karly Henderson (9).