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Eight high school sports takeaways as a trio of girls’ lacrosse players join the 100-goal club – The Boston Globe
Bedford’s Finley Halloran, Tewksbury’s Emily Picher, and Hudson’s Layne Thomason all notched their 100th goal Tuesday.
Halloran tallied three times in a 15-4 win over Newton South, while Picher, who is committed to play basketball at the University of New England, did the same in a 14-1 victory against Triton. Thomason, who is bound for Fitchburg State, notched a pair of goals in a 13-6 loss to Littleton.
They weren’t the full version, but Silver Lake’s Delaney Moquin and Wareham’s Jolee Anderson both notched five-inning no-hitters Tuesday.
Moquin struck out 11 in a 20-0 win over Plymouth North, while Anderson sat down 12 in a 17-1 victory against Mashpee.
Riley Cabrera, Newton South — The sophomore enjoyed quite a day at the dish, homering twice and knocking in eight runs in a 25-7 win over Boston Latin. Cabrera has three homers and 12 RBIs in her last three games.
Teddy Conti, Minuteman — The junior goalie not only made 12 stops in a 13-4 win over Nashoba Valley Tech, but netted five points (2 goals, 3 assists).
Gian Gamelli and Cole Scanlon, Hamilton-Wenham — The duo did it all at the dish, combining for 7 hits, 7 RBIs, 5 runs, and 3 steals in the Generals’ 13-3 Cape Ann win over Manchester Essex. Gamelli, a senior, had 3 hits, 5 RBIs, 3 runs, and 2 steals, while Scanlon, a junior, collected 4 hits, 2 RBIs, 2 runs, and a steal.
Cabrera wasn’t the only one to go yard twice, as she was joined by Jackson Lucarelli of St. John’s (Shrewsbury) and Bennett Menghi of Archbishop Williams. Lucarelli, a sophomore DH, had six RBIs to beat Catholic Memorial, 16-0, and Menghi had four RBIs in the Bishops’ 10-7 win over Boston Latin.
Alannah Waters crushed a grand slam for Silver Lake, Duxbury’s Catherine Grimaldi launched a three-run blast in a 10-5 win over Whitman-Hanson, Dedham’s Elena Goldsbury put one over the fence in a 9-6 victory against Holliston, Middleborough’s Taryn Clancy left the yard, and Norton’s Liana Danubio, Paige Donahue, and Avery Tinkham all had inside-the-park round-trippers to beat Medway, 16-1.
5. Daily lacrosse leaderboard
Julia Kipperman, Nauset, 10
Sky Berry, Gloucester, 8
Will Cronin, Acton-Boxborough, 8
Elizabeth Descheneaux, Methuen, 7
Colin Driscoll, Masconomet, 6
Kiera Fitzpatrick, Methuen, 6
Reece Moore, Marblehead, 6
Jon Sullivan, Marshfield, 6
Sophia Babington, Bedford, 5
Charlie Brennan, Xaverian, 5
Ryan Constantine, Arlington Catholic, 5
Kyla Darmon, Sandwich, 5
Alex Fivek, Concord-Carlisle, 5
Jackson Gearin, Billerica, 5
Ryan Hill, Minuteman, 5
Brayden Mattera, Walpole, 5
Caroline Villarin, Duxbury, 5
Cronin, Acton-Boxborough, 10
Kipperman, Nauset, 10
Mattera, Walpole, 9
Bella Duffy, Braintree, 8
Matthew Grafton, Abington, 8
Moore, Marblehead, 8
Driscoll, Masconomet, 7
Mira Flaherty, Weymouth, 7
Kendall Rogers, Weymouth, 7
Colten Russo, Masconomet, 7
Sullivan, Marshfield, 7
Jason Trombly, Scituate, 7
6. Daily strikeout leaders
Taryn Clancy, Middleborough, 13
Jolee Anderson, Wareham, 12
Maggie Schlossberg, East Bridgewater, 12
Delaney Moquin, Silver Lake, 11
John Farrell, Medway, 9
Landon Cardoza, Bishop Stang, 9
Christian Figueroa, Lynn Classical, 9
As reported Monday by the Globe’s Cam Kerry, Martha’s Vineyard boys’ hockey coach Matt Mincone announced his retirement. The West Tisbury police chief guided the Vineyarders to the 2002 Division 2 championship and totaled more than 200 wins in more than 20 years at the helm.
Norwell’s Grace Oliver, the state’s Gatorade Player of the Year at Noble & Greenough as a junior in 2022-23, is on the move from Colorado to Wake Forest.
The 6-foot-1-inch former four-star recruit averaged 3.8 points and 3.3 rebounds in 14.1 minutes per game as a freshman. She started two of her 32 games and made 52.2 percent of her shots, including 39.5 percent from behind the arc.
Westford Academy had a mini signing day Tuesday, with Mikayla Creighton committing to Colby-Sawyer to play softball, Alexa Pantoja headed to Tampa for cross-country/track, and Alex Wilson bound for Trinity, where he will play football.
Former Worcester Academy standout Kayvaun Mulready is leaving Georgetown to enter the transfer portal. The 6-foot-4-inch former four-star recruit averaged 1.4 points in 7.9 minutes per game as a freshman for the Hoyas.
NEWS: Georgetown guard Kayvaun Mulready is entering the transfer portal, he told @LeagueRDY.
Mulready is a former four-star recruit who played just his freshman season for the Hoyas. He’s a native of Worcester, Massachusetts.
Averaged 1.4PPG this season. pic.twitter.com/qE6G1xctX5
— Sam Kayser (@247HSHoops) April 8, 2025
Brendan Kurie can be reached at brendan.kurie@globe.com. Follow him on X @BrendanKurie.
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Massachusetts arrested over sword-wielding, threats to Donald Trump | The Jerusalem Post
A Massachusetts man accused of making threats on Facebook to kill United States President Donald Trump was arrested on Wednesday after a stand-off with law enforcement in which the man began brandishing a sword.
Andrew Emerald, 45, was charged in an eight-count indictment filed in federal court in Springfield, Massachusetts, over a string of threatening posts he allegedly made last year, including one in which he vowed to travel to Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida if the president was not dead by 2026.
“Either Trump is dead and in the ground by 2026, or I am hunting him down and putting him there,” Emerald wrote in another social media post in May 2025, according to the indictment.
A lawyer for Emerald did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
His Facebook posts came to the FBI’s attention as a result of a tip from a citizen who had warned Emerald that it was a crime to threaten the life of the president, according to documents prosecutors filed seeking to have him detained.
Emerald replied that he had been threatening Trump online for a decade and that, if law enforcement came after him, “I’ll kill them until they kill me,” according to an affidavit from an FBI agent.
When the FBI on Wednesday went to his residence in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, to execute an arrest warrant, Emerald refused to come out before eventually stepping into view brandishing a long, metallic sword, the affidavit said.
The FBI agent said Emerald had previously referenced his sword in Facebook posts threatening Trump, including in July 2025, when he said he would stick it through the president’s throat.
Emerald told agents they would need to shoot him before locking his door, the FBI agent recounted.
Local police and an FBI crisis negotiation team were called in. He finally agreed to be arrested after a police officer reached him on his phone, the FBI agent’s affidavit said.
Massachusetts
Jewish families in western Massachusetts get ready for Passover
CHICOPEE, Mass. (WWLP) – Jewish families in western Massachusetts and across the world are preparing to observe the eight-day festival of Passover starting at sundown Wednesday. The holiday commemorates the biblical story of Exodus and the Israelites’ liberation from slavery in Egypt.
The festival is also known as Pesach and the Festival of Unleavened Bread, according to the National Day Calendar. Its date changes annually because it is set according to the first full moon in the Hebrew calendar month of Nissan.
The roots of the holiday are found in the Old Testament. While traditionally a Jewish observance, many Christians have also begun participating in Passover celebrations.
The holiday starts with the Passover Seder, which is a ritual feast. The event includes reading, singing, washing hands, drinking wine, and eating specific foods.
A traditional Seder meal includes roasted lamb, flatbread called matzah, bitter herbs like horseradish, and vegetables dipped in saltwater. These items are arranged on a Seder plate.
The food and wine are ingested in a specific order during the meal. The procedure is written in a book called the Haggadah, which also includes the consumption of four cups of wine.
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Artemis II crew will use laser communications developed in Massachusetts on trip around the moon
The countdown is on for Artemis II and its crew’s historic liftoff Wednesday evening. The mission will mark NASA’s first piloted flight to the moon in 53 years.
Attached to the Orion spacecraft the four astronauts will take around the moon, is a key piece of technology developed over decades in Lexington, Massachusetts.
MIT Lincoln Laboratory
Researchers and developers at MIT Lincoln Laboratory designed and built optical communication systems, which use lasers instead of traditional radio frequencies to transmit information.
“With laser communications, we’re able to deliver a lot more data with a lot less power and with much smaller terminals,” explained Jade Wang, Assistant Group Leader of Optical and Quantum Communications at MIT Lincoln Laboratory.
The technology marks a major leap from the RF systems used during the Apollo missions decades ago. Researchers say those older systems created limits on how much and how reliably data could be sent back to Earth during flight.
“The in-flight instrumentation is a huge bottleneck [on newer spacecrafts], and without laser communications, all of that data that’s critical to the safety and the health of the astronauts wouldn’t be as readily available,” said Steve Gillmer, Assistant Group Leader of Structural and Thermo-Fluids Engineering at MIT Lincoln Laboratory.
4K video in space
The new system is expected to provide a faster, more seamless flow of critical data, including 4K video upload and download as well as other capabilities. In a sense those grainy videos of the moon from the 60s and 70s will truly be a thing of the past.
“The way I eventually described it to my friends was I was working to make communications in space more like, bring the internet so astronauts could view cat videos for instance, and to have the experience in space that they currently enjoy at home,” said Wang.
Beyond Artemis II, researchers say technology will play a vital role in the future of deep space exploration. NASA plans to have a moon-landing flight in 2028.
“Artemis is just the first step. Ultimately, we are hoping to send people to Mars for exploration there, and this same of technology is required to kind of provide the amount of data and services that we need for that kind of exploration,” Wang added.
MIT Lincoln Laboratory is owned and operated by Massachusetts Institute of Technology but serves as the largest federally funded R&D tasked with developing advanced technology for the DoW, U.S. government agencies and non-DoW organizations such as NASA, the FAA, and NOAA.
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