Shawsheen walks off with win
Freshman Reagan Bowden scored on a wild pitch in the bottom of the 7th to give Shawsheen Tech a 9-8 victory over Lowell Catholic in softball action on Thursday.
The back-and-forth game ended in dramatic fashion. Bowden singled to lead off the 7 th. Paityn Rose’s infield single made it 2 on with no outs.
The next pitch got away from the catcher, putting runners on second and third. A wild pitch then plated Bowden to win the game.
Celine Reynolds went 2for-3 with 1 RBI to lead the Rams’ (1-1) 7-hit attack. Ella Malvone went 1-for-2, reached base 3 times and had 3 stolen bases and 2 runs scored. NDA/INNOVATION 14, GREATER LAWRENCE 5» Academy moved to 3-0 on the season.
The offense was led by Jadyn Fahey and Melina Strickland with 2 hits each. Isabelle Coit was great in the circle, picking up the win.
TEWKSBURY 6, HAVERHILL 0» Sam Ryan shut down Haverhill, throwing a complete game.
Sam Perkins and Becca Harris each had 2 hits to power the Tewksbury, which had 5 hits as a team.
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Boys lacrosse
DRACUT 14, HAVERHILL 4» Josh Gagnon led the way with 4 goals for Dracut (3-1).
Asher Talbot chipped in 2 goals for the Middies. NASHOBA REGIONAL 14, LITTLETON 8» Cam Noyes had a hat trick for the Tigers in the loss.
Tim Kelleher and Brian Marrese had 2 goals each. SHREWSBURY 6, GROTONDUNSTABLE 2» Attackman Declan Lowney had 2 goals from feeds from Evan Laudenslager in G-D’S loss on Wednesday.
Goalie Matt Lesser had 9 saves for the day.
Baseball
Chris Disciscio got the win on the mound, scattering 4 hits, while working efficiently and having solid defense play behind him.
The Rams started the game by scoring 3 runs in the top of the 1st. Cam Rich belted a deep sac fly to center to score one and Ben Powell smacked an Rbisingle to right to score another.
Shawsheen broke things open in the 3rd by scoring 6 runs. The knockout blow was dealt by sophomore shortstop Mavrick Bourdeau when he cleared the bases with a 3-run triple. TEWKSBURY 3, HAVERHILL 2» Ryne Rametta drove in David Miller with a sacrifice fly in the bottom of the 5th for the go-ahead run and Tewkbury improved to 1-2.
Drew Timmons allowed just 3 hits in 5.2 innings for the win on the mound.
Rametta earned the save.
LOWELL CATHOLIC 17, LYNN TECH 2» Kevin Galligani went 4 strong innings for the win. He didn’t allow a hit or walk and struck out 5.
He also had 3 hits, scored 3 runs and drove in 2. Jake Mcdonough had 3 hits, 3 runs and an RBI, and Declan Murphy had 2 hits, 2 runs and an RBI.
The Crusaders improved to 1-2.
Girls tennis
LITTLETON 5, TYNGSBORO 0» Carmen Armiento (6-3, 4-6, 6-0), Alison Iversen (6-3, 6-1) and Alisha Patel (6-1, 6-0) won singles matches for Littleton.
Tanya Rizi and Ruby Hider won in doubles (6-0, 6-1), as did Sasha Pavlov and Katie Asselin (6-3, 4-6, 6-4).
Boys volleyball
BILLERICA 3, METHUEN 1» Set scores were 16-25, 2826, 25-18 and 25-21.
Ankeet Patel had 18 kills for Billerica. Ethan Cliff chipped in 9 kills and Tej Patel dished out 32 assists. BISHOP GUERTIN 3, KEENE 0» The Cardinals swept the match with wins of 2521, 25-16 and 25-15.
Joey Farris had 4 aces and 6 digs, while DJ Omogrosso had 2 aces and 11 kills. Jamie Horgos added 2 aces, 4 kills and 1 block.
Girls track
ACADEMY OF NOTRE DAME 84, LYNN TECH 53» Kate Conrad won the 2 mile and 1 mile to lead NDA.
College softball
UMBC 3, UMASS LOWELL 0» UMBC and Stony Brook are onto the winner’s bracket of the 2021 America East Softball Championship.
The Retrievers and the Seawolves each won their opening games on Thursday at The Diamond at UMBC to advance in the tournament.
Top-seeded UMBC received timely hitting and elite pitching from Courtney Coppersmith to beat fourth-seeded Umass Lowell, 3-0, in the tournament opener. In the second game of the day, thirdseeded Stony Brook scored eight times in the first inning en route to a 10-5 win over second-seeded Ualbany.
Three games will take place on Friday with UMBC meeting Stony Brook with a trip to the championship round on the line at 11 a.m.. Ualbany and Umass Lowell will play the first elimination game of the tournament at 1:30 p.m. The loser of UMBC-STONY Brook and the winner of Ualbany-umass Lowell will square off in the final game of the day at 4 p.m.