LOCAL COLLEGE NOTES

Mariners riding a wave

• Mitchell College pitcher Katelyn Lipsky was named the New England Collegiate Conference Rookie of the Week in softball for the third time this season. She earned three wins and a save as the Mariners beat Becker in all four meetings. She allowed four earned runs and struck out 27 in 19 innings. She ranks first in the NECC in strikeouts with 83 and innings pitched with 83.2.

• Senior Jade Shields was selected NECC Offensive Player of the Week, senior goalie Marcell Quinn was the Defensive Player of the Week and

Joe Schley the top rookie as Mitchell College swept the weekly awards for men's lacrosse.

It is the second weekly honor this season for Shields, who had a team-high 11 points in two games on nine goals and two assists. He scored the game-winner with 35 seconds left in a 13-12 win over Salem State. Quinn was a weekly award winner for the third time, making 40 saves in two games, while Schley, who scored five goals last week, earned his fourth weekly honor.

• Winners of eight of their last nine, the Mariner baseball team plays a pivotal doubleheader at NECC leader New England College (11-11, 9-1) on Wednesday. The Mariners (15-6, 8-2) reside in second place. The two teams split a doubleheader earlier this month.

• Senior Hannah Corrigan (23 goals, four assists), senior Lindsey Fairbank (19 goals, eight assists) and junior Daniella Holland (13 goals, two assists) combined to score 55 of Mitchell's 62 goals overall in women's lacrosse action.

Tracking the Bears

• Coast Guard Academy's Caleb Holdridge ,a sophomore from Waterford, was selected to the New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference weekly honor roll for men's lacrosse after contributing five goals, three assists and four ground balls in a 21-9 win over Emerson last week. Holdridge leads the Bears (3-0) in goals (17) and points (23) and ranks second in assists with six. The NEWMAC tournament begins on Saturday with top-seeded Coast Guard hosting No. 4 Wheaton at 1 p.m. in the semifinals.

• Sophomore Kayla Yoshioka Montalvo leads the Coast Guard softball team with a .410 batting average, and also has nine RBI, the second most on the team. Sophomore Mariah Dewey (.395, two home runs, seven RBI), freshman Isabelle Shroyer

(.370, four RBI), freshman Christine Carey (.349, eight RBI) and sophomore Katie Becker (.343, two home runs, a team-high 11 RBI) also power the offense for the Bears (6-6, 6-6). To qualify for the NEWMAC tournament, Coast Guard needs some help. The Bears will get in if WPI sweeps a doubleheader from Wheaton on Saturday.

Camel highlights

• The Connecticut College men's lacrosse team will play its regular season finale Saturday, hosting New England Small College Athletic Conference foe Bates. Junior Logan Bowdish of Waterford is tied for second on the team in points scored (14) and goals (12) in five games for the Camels (2-3). Sophomore Jared Rainville leads the way with team highs in goals (14), assists (13) and points

Around the region

• East Lyme graduate Trystan Levesque, a freshman reliever on the Rhode Island baseball team, earned the win in relief on Saturday in a 10-8 victory over UMass. Levesque (3-1) pitched the final three innings, allowing three runs (only one earned) on four hits while walking one and striking out two. He's second on the team in appearances with 13 and owns a 4.18 earned run average.

• Holy Cross sophomore Ben Dellacono, an outfielder from Stonington, belted his first home run of the season and went 2-for-5 with three RBI in Holy Cross' 14-13 loss to Navy in the first game of a doubleheader on Saturday.

• East Lyme's Julia Bates, a sophomore member of the Mount Union women's lacrosse team, earned Academic All-Ohio Athletic Conference honors. She is majoring in neuroscience. On the field, she has 22 goals and 22 assists for the Raiders (12-1).

• Grove City junior midfielder Michael LaForte, a Waterford graduate, scored a team-high five goals and added two assists in a 19-8 win over Washington & Jefferson on Saturday. LaForte leads the team in assists (30) and points (57) and ranks third in goals (27).

• Through nine games, Western Connecticut State junior outfielder Max Gregory, a Griswold graduate, is batting .333, standing second on the team in batting average.

• Saint Joseph senior Abigail Horner of East Lyme scored two goals in a season-ending 24-7 loss to Johnson & Wales in the Great Northeast Athletic Conference tournament quarterfinals on Saturday. Fellow East Lyme graduate Taya Valdez, a junior, also scored for the Blue Jays. Horner finished her final season with six goals and a team-high four assists in four games.

• Alex Fayan, a sophomore from Waterford, has appeared in seven games for the 20th-ranked Bentley men's lacrosse team. Bentley (6-3) will play Pace in the Northeast 10 Conference tournament quarterfinals on Saturday.

• Senior infielder Wyatt Sihvonen, a Lyman Memorial graduate, has scored a team-high 20 runs for the Lasell College baseball team. He has started all 26 games, chipping in a home run and eight RBI.

• Eastern Connecticut State University sophomore midfielder Mackenzie Shrewsbury, an NFA graduate, has played in all 14 games, starting 12, for the women's lacrosse team. She has four goals and a career-best three assists.

• Also at Eastern, graduate student Cassie Woods of Mystic saw her hitting streak end at 18 games in the first game of a softball doubleheader sweep of Western Connecticut on April 20. Woods went 0-for-1 with three walks and scored two runs in a 10-4 win. She leads the Little East Conference in batting with a .609 average, runs scored with 40 and hits with 39. Eastern is undefeated at 20-0 overall.

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