ROUNDUP

TENNIS

Form held in the USTA High School State Boys Tennis Championships as the top four seeds advanced to Monday’s semifinals. Top-seed Lochlan Seth of Newton North defeated Dillon Denny-Brown of Bedford and eighth-seeded Max Ding of Weston, conceding just three games in the two wins. Seth will face third-seeded Tim Vargas of Duxbury, who beat Charles Schepens of Swampscott and sixth-seeded Declan Power of Concord-Carlisle in straight sets.

On the other side of the bracket, No. 4 Connor Liona of Westford Academy easily handled Winston Chan of Brookline and Jay Raj of Melrose in two sets. He will meet second-seeded John Dickens of Milton, who survived a 10-8 super tiebreaker against No. 14 Lachlan McCaghren of Lincoln-Sudbury to reach the quarterfinals, where he had an easier time with fifth-seeded John DeAngelis of St. John’s Prep, 6-4, 6-1.

On the girls side, No. 1 Kyra McCandless of Lexington defeated a pair of seeded players, including her sister Mia, to advance to the semifinals. She will face Grace Zhang of Natick who survived a 10-8 third-set super tiebreaker against Suzanne Pogorelec of Winsor in the Round of 16. In the bottom half of the draw, No. 4 Maya Muhunthan of Acton-Boxboro and second-seeded Bella Gopen of Wellesley each won a pair of matches to advance to Monday’s semifinal.

BASEBALL

Greyson Baldizar went 2-for-3 and drove in three runs as Seekonk edged Somerset Berkley 4-3 in the South Coast Conference.

Tyler Nelson earned his sixth win of the season and EJ Lavalle drove in four runs as Arlington Catholic handled Cardinal Spellman 10-3 in the Catholic Central League.

William Shaheen and Christian Rosa each drove in a pair of runs as St. John’s Prep coasted to an 8-2 nonleague win over Central Catholic.

Brendan Loewen drove in four runs as Georgetown (19-2) won the Bert Spofford Tournament for the first time since 2009, defeating Newburyport, 10-8. The 19 wins this season is also a new school record. … Jack Zimmerman struck out 13 and Nate Cutone drove in a pair of runs as St. Mary’s captured the Mullins Tournament with a 10-4 win over Lynn English. … Ben Workman earned his fourth shutout of the season as Andover blanked Wakefield 10-0 in the finals of the Geanoulis Tournament.

SOFTBALL

Lizzy Bettencourt hit a pair of home runs as Peabody rolled to a 15-3 win over Masconomet in the Northeastern Conference.

Emma Penniman had a three-run homer in the first and picked up the win as Triton (16-4) defeated Wilmington 6-2 in a nonleague contest.

SCORES

BASEBALL

Arlington Catholic 10, Cardinal Spellman 3

Greater Lowell 10, Greater Lawrence 0

Medford 6, Newton South 5

New Bedford 7, Apponequet 1

St. John’s Prep 8, Central Catholic 2

Seekonk 4, Somerset Berkley 3

JIMMY GEANOULIS TOURNAMENT

Ch: Andover 10, Wakefield 0

MULLINS TOURNAMENT

Ch: St. Mary’s 10, Lynn English 4

SPOFFORD TOURNAMENT

Ch: Georgetown 10. Newburyport 8

GIRLS LACROSSE

Stoneham 17, Gloucester 5

SOFTBALL

Marshfield 14, Cohasset 0

Peabody 15, Masconomet 3

Triton 6, Wilmington 2

BOYS TENNIS

MIAA STATEWIDE TOURNAMENT

DIVISION 1

PRELIMINARY ROUND – Tuesday

Haverhill at Braintree, 4

Lynn English at Wachusett, 4

PRELIMINARY ROUND – Wednesday

Chelmsford at Central Catholic, 4

Durfee at Malden, 4

FIRST ROUND – Tuesday

Cambridge at Needham, 3:15

FIRST ROUND – Wednesday

Central Catholic at Wellesley, 4

Framingham at St. John’s, 4

Newton South at Shrewsbury, 4

FIRST ROUND – Thursday

North Andover vs. Westford, 3 (Robinson School)

FIRST ROUND – TBA

Attleboro at Arlington

Barnstable at BC High

Bishop Feehan at Andover

Boston Latin at Winchester

Braintree/Haverhill at Concord-Carlisle

Chelmsford/Catholic Memorial at St. John’s Prep

Franklin at Brookline

Lincoln-Sudbury at Acton-Boxboro

Malden/Durfee at Newton North

Wachusett/Lynn English at Lexington

Xaverian at Belmont

DIVISION 2

PRELIMINARY ROUND – Tuesday

Whitman-Hanson at Algonquin, 4

PRELIMINARY ROUND – Wednesday

Billerica vs. Somerville, 4:30 (Tufts)

FIRST ROUND – Tuesday

Worcester South at Walpole, 4:15

FIRST ROUND – Wednesday

Amherst-Pelham at Hingham, 4:30

FIRST ROUND – Thursday

Masconomet vs. Scituate, 4 (Gates School)

Reading at Marblehead, 5

FIRST ROUND – TBA

Dartmouth at Milton

Grafton at North Quincy

Melrose at Mansfield

Minnechaug at Duxbury

North Attleboro at Burlington

Oliver Ames at Northampton

Plymouth North at Longmeadow

Plymouth South at Somerset Berkley

Shepherd Hill at Hopkinton

Somerville/Billerica at Sharon

Westwood at Wayland

Whitman-Hanson/Algonquin at Westborough

DIVISION 3

PRELIMINARY ROUND – Wednesday

Auburn at Watertown, 4

Groton-Dunstable at Pentucket, 4

Lowell Catholic at Maimonides, 4

Lynn Classical at Whitinsville Christian, 4

Norwell at Falmouth, 4

FIRST ROUND – Wednesday

Norton at Gloucester, 1

Medway at Pioneer Valley Christian, 4

FIRST ROUND – Thursday

Dighton-Rehoboth vs. Medfield, 3 (Metacomet Park)

FIRST ROUND – TBA

Belchertown at Old Rochester

Cape Cod Academy at North Reading

Dedham at Newburyport

East Longmeadow at Wilmington

Falmouth/Norwell at Bedford

Foxboro at Pope Francis

Groton-Dunstable/Pentucket at Weston

Hanover at Dover-Sherborn

Latin Academy at Marlboro

Lowell Catholic/Maimonides at Martha’s Vineyard

Lynn Classical/Whitinsville Christian at Apponequet

Nauset at Wakefield

Watertown/Auburn at Swampscott

DIVISION 4

PRELIMINARY ROUND – Wednesday

Mashpee at Turners Falls, 4:30

FIRST ROUND – Tuesday

Monument Mountain at Sutton, 4

FIRST ROUND – Wednesday

Rockport vs. Monomoy, 3 (Brooks Park)

Hampden Charter at Ipswich, 3:30

Stoneham vs. Hamilton-Wenham, 4:30 (Pingree)

FIRST ROUND – Thursday

Nantucket at Frontier, 1

West Bridgewater vs. PV Chinese, 3 (Hampshire)

FIRST ROUND – Friday

Mt. Greylock vs. Lenox, 4:30 (Lenox CC)

FIRST ROUND – TBA

Amesbury at Fairhaven

Hopedale at Bromfield

Leicester at Littleton

Mashpee/Turners Falls at Lynnfield

Mt. Everett at Lee

Quaboag at Cohasset

Seekonk at Sturgis West

Springfield International at Manchester-Essex

Westport at Mystic Valley

USTA High School State Tennis Championships at Wayland

Third Round

Lochlan Seth (Newton North) (1) def. Dillon Denny-Brown (Bedford), 6-1, 6-1

Max Ding (Weston) (8) def. Charlie Lankow (Cohasset), 6-3, 6-3

Tim Vargas (Duxbury) (3) def. Charles Schepens (Swampscott), 6-3. 6-0

Declan Power (Concord-Carlisle) (6) def. Krish Gupta (Shrewsbury), 6-2, 6-0

Jay Raj (Melrose) def. Jack Prokopis (St. John’s Prep), 7-5, 6-0

Connor Liona (Westford Academy) (4) def. Winston Chan (Brookline), 6-1, 6-2

John DeAngelis (St. John’s Prep) (5) def. Luke Free (St. John’s Prep) (12), 7-5, 6-2

John Dickens (Milton) (2) def. Lachlan McCaghren (Lincoln-Sudbury) (14), 6-4, 4-6, 10-8

Quarterfinals

Seth def. Ding, 6-0, 6-1

Vargas def. Power, 6-1, 6-2

Liona def. Raj, 6-1, 6-2

Dickens def. DeAngelis, 6-4, 6-1

GIRLS TENNIS

MIAA STATEWIDE TOURNAMENT

DIVISION 1

PRELIMINARY ROUND – Tuesday

Diman at Hopkinton, 4

Medford at Taunton, 4

PRELIMINARY ROUND – Wednesday

Bridgewater-Raynham at Cambridge, 4

Durfee at Franklin, 4

Everett at Central Catholic, 4

Haverhill at Natick, 4

King Philip vs. Wachusett, 4 (Marlboro)

Revere vs. Malden, 4 (Amerige Park)

PRELIMINARY ROUND – Thursday

Peabody at North Andover, 4

FIRST ROUND – Wednesday

Algonquin at Needham, 3:15

Shrewsbury at Bishop Feehan, 3:30

Waltham at Newton North, 3:45

Plymouth North at Arlington, 4

FIRST ROUND – Friday

Braintree at Andover, 4

FIRST ROUND – TBA

Beverly at Lincoln-Sudbury

Bridgewater-Raynham/Cambridge at Lexington

Central Catholic/Everett at Concord-Carlisle

Franklin/Durfee at Belmont

Hopkinton/Diman at Acton-Boxboro

Malden/Revere at Winchester

Methuen at Brookline

Natick/Haverhill at Newton South

North Andover/Peabody at Boston Latin

Taunton/Medford at Westford Academy

Wachusett/King Philip at Wellesley

DIVISION 2

PRELIMINARY ROUND – Tuesday

West Springfield at East Longmeadow, 3

Shepherd Hill at Nashoba, 4

PRELIMINARY ROUND – Wednesday

Somerville at South, 2:30

Archbishop Williams vs. North Quincy, 4 (Bishop Field TC)

Chicopee Comp. at Walpole, 4

Leominster at Dartmouth, 4

PRELIMINARY ROUND – Thursday

Worcester North vs. Reading, 4 (Reading TC)

FIRST ROUND – Wednesday

Bedford vs. Scituate, 3 (Gates School)

FIRST ROUND – Thursday

Melrose at Marblehead, 2:30

Wakefield at North Attleboro, 3:45

Amherst-Pelham at Sharon, 4

FIRST ROUND – Friday

Ludlow at Minnechaug, 5

FIRST ROUND – TBA

Dartmouth/Leominster at Duxbury

East Longmeadow/West Springfield at Notre Dame (Hingham)

Holliston at Burlington

Middleboro at Ursuline

Nashoba/Shepherd Hill at Masconomet

Northampton at Milton

North Quincy/Archbishop Williams at Westborough

Reading/North at Wayland

South/Somerville at Longmeadow

Walpole/Chicopee Comp. at Hingham

Westwood at Bishop Stang

DIVISION 3

PRELIMINARY ROUND – Wednesday

Tantasqua at Auburn, 2:30

Hudson at Triton, 4

Lowell Catholic at Foxboro, 4

Whitinsville Christian at Nauset, 4

FIRST ROUND – Wednesday

Tewksbury at Hanover, 3:25

Groton-Dunstable at Dennis-Yarmouth, 4

Martha’s Vineyard at Danvers, 4

FIRST ROUND – Friday

Fairhaven at Medfield, 2 (Metacomet Park)

FIRST ROUND – TBA

Apponequet at Cape Cod Academy

Auburn/Tantasqua at Pembroke

Falmouth at Norwell

Foxboro/Lowell Catholic at Weston

Medway at Old Rochester

Notre Dame (Worcester) at Dover-Sherborn

Pentucket at Belchertown

St. Mary’s (Westfield) at Watertown

Swampscott at Latin Academy

Triton/Hudson at Wilmington

Wareham at North Reading

Whitinsville Christian/Nauset at Newburyport

DIVISION 4

PRELIMINARY ROUND – Wednesday

Mohawk Trail at Case, 4

Greenfield at Winthrop, 4

PRELIMINARY ROUND – Thursday

Hamden East at PV Chinese Immersion, 3

FIRST ROUND – Wednesday

Abington at Lenox, 2:30

Leicester at Palmer, 3:30

Mashpee vs. Millis, 4 (Medway)

Randolph vs. Quabbin, 4 (Gardner)

Rockport vs. Monomoy, 5:30 (Brooks Park)

FIRST ROUND – Thursday

AMSA at Sutton, 3:30

Bourne at Ipswich, 4

FIRST ROUND – Friday

Hamden East/PVCI vs. Hamilton-Wenham, 4:30 (Pingree)

FIRST ROUND – TBA

Amesbury at Cohasset

South Hadley at Hopedale

Lee at Mt. Greylock

Tyngsboro at Nantucket

Case/Mohawk Trail at Manchester-Essex

Winthrop/Greenfield at Lynnfield

Sturgis East at Quabbin

Clinton at Bromfield

USTA High School State Tennis Championships at Wayland

Third Round

Kyra McCandless (Lexington) (1) def. Kiera Delima (Framingham) (12), 6-1, 6-3

Mia McCandless (Lexington) (10) def. Halina Nguyen (Boston Latin) (7), 7-5, 7-6 (7-5)

Suzanne Pogorelec (Winsor) (3) def. Olivia Gilbert (Marshfield) (14), 6-4, 6-4

Grace Zhang (Natick) (8) def. Kimberly Tai (Wellesley) (9), 6-3, 6-2

Julia Bae (Chestnut Hill) (6) def. Ananya Rao (Acton-Boxboro), 6-3, 6-2.

Maya Muhunthan (Acton-Boxboro) (4) def. Vanessa Vu (Boston Latin) (11), 6-3, 7-5

Phoebe Xiaoyao Jiang (Lexington) (5) def. Nicole Makarewicz (Pembroke) (15), 6-1, 6-2

Bella Gopen (Wellesley) (2) def. Emma Jani (Hamilton-Wenham) (13), 6-3, 6-1

Quarterfinals

K. McCandless def. M. McCandless, 6-1, 6-0

Zhang def. Pogorelec, 1-6, 6-4, 10-8

Muhunthan def. Bae, 7-6 (7-2), 6-1

Gopen def. Jiang, 6-2, 7-5

Boston College dethroned Northwestern as women’s lacrosse champions because the Eagles refused to be rolled a second time.

No. 2 seed BC rallied from a 6-0 first quarter deficit and went on to defeat the reigning champion and no. 1 seed Wildcats, 14-13, in the NCAA Division 1 championship match on Sunday at WakeMed Soccer Park in Cary, N.C.

The Eagles (20-3) captured their second national championship in seven straight trips to the title game. Northwestern blasted BC 18-6 in last year’s title game, but the Eagles denied Wildcats’ head coach Kelly Amonte-Hiller a ninth national championship. BC captured its first NCAA title in 2021 when the current senior class were freshmen.

“I think the losses along the way were part of this process and I’m not glorifying losing by any means,” said BC head coach Acacia Walker Weinstein. “I do think maybe I, our staff and our players needed to be hardened a bit to be ready for this moment.

“It is not easy to get to the national championship, it’s not easy to win, almost impossible. Everything has to be aligned. I think somewhere along the way those heartbreaking losses taught us what we needed to fix and to be better and play smarter.”

BC attacker Kayla Martello led the BC attack with five goals, finishing with 68 on the season and 16 in four tournament games. She was named tournament MVP. Goaltender Shea Dolce, who was on the business end of last season’s 18-6 beatdown, finished with nine saves and was spectacular in the closing minute to secure the victory.

“I have been thinking about it every single day since last year,” said Dolce. “That was a moment I wanted back and it means the world to have this moment and be on the flip side.”

Leading by one after three, Wildcats sniper Izzy Scane scored on the opening possession of the fourth to make it 11-9 with her third of the match and 86th of the season. BC’s Rachel Clark retaliated with back-to-back goals to tie the game 11-11 at 11:05.

Andrea Reynolds scooped a ground ball and scored on an over- the-top shot to give the Eagles’ their first lead, 12-11, with 9:39 to play. Martello’s scored her fourth of the game on a crossing move with both teams short-handed to put BC up 13-11 with 5:55 remaining. Scane got it back to one with a free possession goal with 4:56 to play, but McKenna Davis put BC up 14-12 with a transition goal.

Northwestern killed off a BC power play and Scane cut the lead to 14-13 with her fourth straight on a free possession with 58.8 seconds to play. Northwestern won the ensuing controlled draw but failed to score in the final minute.

“The nature of their defense is really aggressive and I think Northwestern and us, like our tanks were running low,” said Walker-Weinstein. “We had to spread out and let the ball do a lot of the work. The girls did a great job making adjustments.”

The Wildcats revisited the script from last year’s title match by jumping to a 4-0 lead before the first media timeout. Playmaker Erin Coykendall opened the scoring with her 43rd of the season and then set up Dylan Amonte from a free position to make it 2-0 at 10:20. Coykendall and Taylor blasted shots from set plays to make it 6-0. It was the largest deficit BC faced all season.

“They (seniors) were all so level headed and we knew there as so much game left to played,” said Walker-Weinstein.

The Eagles scored the first goal of the second quarter on a well-executed play at 9:44. Florida transfer Emma LoPinto fired a blind behind the back shot that eluded goalie Molly Laliberty for her 27th of the season.

BC cut the lead to 6-3 when Andrea Reynolds unloaded a bullet from a free position and Martello followed with a shot from the inner crease at 4:29. After NWU senior Lindsey Frank and Martello exchanged goals, the Wildcats responded with two unanswered tallies to go up 8-4. Martello scored the final two goals to make it 8-6 at the break.

BC made it a one-goal game when Ryan Smith scored her ninth from a free position with 13:01 to play in the third. Dolce followed a singular moment when she stoned junior Samantha Smith on a free possession shot from the middle of the crease.

The Wildcats broke the BC rally with goals by Taylor and Scane to go up 10-7 with 6:54 on the board. LoPinto got it back to a pair with a bad angle shot from the side of the cage with 2:44 to play. Davis beat the buzzer with an over the shoulder, short-handed, goal to make it 10-9 at the end of three.

“That was outrageous and I almost missed it,” said Walker-Weinstein. “Mckenna practices that shot every single day and she knew the time on the clock which is a huge thing to her. To make that shot was so clutch.”

Theo Epstein, the executive who brought the Boston Red Sox and Chicago Cubs World Series championships in the 2000s, reportedly is not interested in becoming the next Commissioner of Baseball.

That report came from Bob Nightengale of USA Today on Sunday:

Morgan Sword, MLB’s vice president, business operations, is among the leading candidates to become baseball’s next commissioner when Rob Manfred retires in January, 2029, several MLB owners privately say.

Sword, 39, who works primarily in baseball’s on-field matters, is highly respected by owners and executives throughout the game.

The other top candidates expected to be under serious consideration among owners are deputy commissioners Dan Halem and Noah Garden, and Chris Marinek, chief operations and strategy officer.

Theo Epstein, the future Hall of Fame executive who helped end the Boston Red Sox and Chicago Cubs’ World Series droughts, has no interest in the job and still hopes to become an owner.

After doing some work with Major League Baseball over the last few years, Epstein has come back to take a role in within the Fenway Sports Group. That gives him access to the Red Sox in an advisory capacity, but he reportedly isn’t making decisions for the team baseball-wise.

Epstein was named the Red Sox general manager in 2002 and held the position until after the 2011 season, winning two World Series titles. He then went to the Cubs, winning a title in 2016 and then worked for Major League Baseball, helping implement some of the new rules we saw in 2023.

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