In a Div. 1 baseball first-round contest, Michael Oates cranked a three-run, walk-off homer, lifting fifth-seeded Xaverian (14-7) to a 5-3 win over No. 26 Algonquin.
Chris Costello earned his one centesimal career educating win as No. 17 Walpole (13-8) defeated No. 16 Wachusett, 3-1. … Jack Ritchie scattered 4 hits in a complete-game effort as No. 9 Bridgewater-Raynham (17-4) beat No. 24 Bishop Feehan, 3-1. … Mason Lombard turned in six innings of shutout work, allowing three singles whereas racking up 9 strikeouts as No. 7 BC Excessive (13-8) punched its ticket to the Spherical of 16 with a 5-0 victory over No. 26 Barnstable.
Within the main spherical of the Div. 2 match, Evan Yakavonis fired 5 innings of shutout ball for the win, surrendering merely three hits whereas placing out eight to data No. 5 Whitman-Hanson (17-4) to an 11-0 blanking of No. 28 Burlington. … Jacob Shirley tossed a one-hitter as No. 11 Masconomet (16-5) defeated No. 22 Woburn, 2-0. … D.C. Brown fanned 9, whereas allowing two hits as No. 9 Plymouth North (16-7) defeated Twenty fourth-seeded Billerica. 8-0. Connor Mackenzie and Mark McKay each had inside-the-park dwelling runs to tempo the Eagles.
Boys lacrosse
Within the Div. 1 spherical of 32, Tyler Sacchetti accomplished with three targets and dished out three assists, as No. 4 Franklin (18-1) erupted for 13 first quarter targets en path to coasting to a 20-0 shutout of No. 21 Methuen.
Eamon Centrella (six targets, assist) turned in a inconceivable effectivity offensively, as top-seeded Studying (18-1) rolled onto the next spherical of the Div. 2 match with a convincing 20-4 win over No. 32 Plymouth North.
Ladies lacrosse
Within the main spherical of the Div. 1 match, Ryann Cobban scored 4 cases to information all scorers in an 18-4 win for sixth-seeded Sandwich (16-4) over No. 27 AMSA (13-7). … Cameron Doyle (seven elements) and Megan Doyle (14 draw controls, six elements) provided a spark offensively, serving to Weymouth (15-6) advance to the Spherical of 16 with a 17-3 victory over No. 22 Peabody (13-6).
In a Div. 4 first spherical contest, Carolyn Bailey and Ella Stein each registered three targets and an assist in a 17-2 win for top-ranked Ipswich (16-1) over No. 32 Belchertown (8-10).
Sara MacLeod scored six targets as No. 15 Billerica (8-11) defeated No. 18 Canton 14-5 in a Div. 2 first-round contest.
Softball
Ana Tsonis notched two hits, 4 RBI and two runs scored for No. 10 Larger New Bedford (14-9) in a 13-1 win over No. 23 Tantasqua (10-11), in a Div. 3 first-round contest. … Camryn Cloonan went 3-for-3 with a home run, 5 RBI and 4 runs scored as No. 2 Dighton-Rehoboth (17-4) defeated No. 34 Bristol-Plymouth, 21-2.
In a Div. 4 first-round bout, Shelby Parr fired a no-hitter, tallying 14 strikeouts as third-seeded Archbishop Williams (18-5) moved onward with a 2-0 shutout of No. 28 Blackstone-Milville.
Boys soccer
Whitman-Hanson launched the hiring of Nate Almeida as its new boys soccer coach. Almeida carried out center once more at Whitman-Hanson from 2011-14. Throughout his three years on the varsity, the crew went from worthwhile solely two video video games in 2012 to creating the postseason match for the first time in quite a lot of years in 2014.
Throughout his senior 12 months, Almeida was a captain, defensive MVP, crew MVP, and chosen to indicate Whitman-Hanson throughout the Patriot League All-Star recreation. Almeida has served as an assistant coach at Whitman-Hanson and has moreover been vigorous inside Whitman Youth Soccer, the place he was a participant, referee, and board member over time.
“What I’m most excited for is the flexibility to assist the gamers throughout the program develop and develop,” Almeida talked about. “Soccer has taught me numerous life classes via the coaches and mentors I’ve met, and I hope to have that very same influence on the gamers coming via this system in the present day and into the long run.”
