Massachusetts
Ten high school sports takeaways on a night that saw shootouts, hat tricks, and upsets shake up the postseason – The Boston Globe
And while Hopkinton’s and Franklin’s shootout wins were thrilling, they paled compared to Martha’s Vineyard, which went 24 rounds with North Reading before Ava Townes delivered on her third attempt.
All told, Wednesday’s themes were shootouts and hat tricks.
Cambridge boys’ soccer defeated Lexington, 2-1, in a shootout, as did Mashpee, which topped Leicester on Mathias Ramirez’s shootout save.
The night also saw no less than 14 players record hat tricks, with Sutton senior Ava Magnuson leading the way with a five-goal performance. Abington’s Nathan Calcano and Central Catholic’s Lucy Irwin both found the net four times, while Norwell’s Bret Amorosino, Sandwich’s Quinn Anderson, Lynnfield’s Kaylee Barrett, Oliver Ames’s Sabrina Fabrizio, Mansfield’s Aly Fernandes, Rockport’s Sunny Gallagher, Mansfield’s Brandon Gardner, Hull’s Libby Harper, Auburn’s Zhunay Moulton, Natick’s Lydia Proia, and Braintree’s Mya Ranieri all scored thrice.
Check out all of Wednesday’s scores here. And find our girls’ volleyball roundup here.
▪ Not only did No. 22 Franklin’s 3-2 win over No. 11 Wellesley one of the day’s shootouts, but it was also one if its biggest upsets. The Panthers (10-5-4) pulled off a No. 22-over-No. 11 stunner for the second straight year after taking out No. 11 Algonquin. Last year, Franklin went on to beat No. 6 Brockton, with both wins coming in overtime.
▪ The biggest upset of the day game in Division 3 girls’ soccer, where No. 28 East Bridgewater eliminated fifth-seeded Hanover, 1-0, when sophomore Jackie Pohl buried a free kick from 25 yards out.
▪ Back on the boys’ side, No. 25 Weston was a 1-0 winner over No. 8 East Boston, and No. 20 Mashpee’s shootout win took down No. 13 Leicester, 2-1.
▪ Auburn senior Zhunay Moulton recorded her 100th career point among three goals and one assist in a 4-0 Division 3 first-round girls’ soccer win over Weston.
▪ With two goals from Sabrina Tibbert, Lincoln-Sudbury field hockey defeated Attleboro, 3-0, in the Division 1 second round to reach its first quarterfinals in 20 years. Of note, the fourth-seeded Warriors will host No. 5 Winchester in a game that will pit L-S coach Vicky Caburian against her former Boston University field hockey teammate, Michelle White, the coach of the Red & Black. The two shared the pitch from 1989-1991, a span that included a trip to the 1991 NCAA Division 1 quarterfinals.
▪ Marblehead needed two overtime periods before Lucy McDonald uncorked a 30-yard strike for a 3-2 win in the Division 2 girls’ soccer tournament, marking the Magicians’ first trip to the second round in nine years.
King Philip senior tight end/outside linebacker Brodie McDonald has committed to play football at Bentley.
▪ Tabor graduate and New Bedford native Jaydah Bedoya will make her debut with the Puerto Rico National Team in their upcoming match against Santa Lucia on Dec. 1 in the CONCACAF Women’s Qualifiers.
Bedoya, who played at UConn, made three appearances with the Ecuador Women’s National Team from 2022-24. Most recently, she has been playing with the DC Power FC of the USL.
▪ New Bedford graduate David Abolarinwa, who also attended Dartmouth High, signed a professional contract with the Quad City Steamwheelers of the Indoor Football League. Abolarinwa, a 6-foot-2-inch, 280-pound defensive lineman, played four seasons at New Haven, finishing with 14 career sacks and 20.5 tackles for loss.
Four Massachusetts players were named to the American Volleyball Coaches Association All-Region 1 team, which covers New England and New York. Selected: Andover outside Jessie Wang, Shrewsbury middle Claire Troy, Longmeadow setter Chloe Scott, and Covenant Christian outside Leanna Rothier. The 2025 AVCA High School All-America Teams, as well as the four AVCA High School National Player of the Year finalists, will be announced Nov. 18.
Congratulations to senior captain Jessie Wang on her selection to the 2025 AVCA All-Region Team! Jessie is only 1 of 20 players selected from ME, NH, VT, MA, CT and NY to make the Northeast team! Congrats Jessie!!! pic.twitter.com/V69n2p4AmO
— Andover High Volleyball (@Andover_vb) November 5, 2025
▪ Graduate student Paige Gillette, an Andover High graduate, became the all-time wins leader for Assumption field hockey with 47, passing Kylie Gargiulo’s 46 wins from 2019-22. As a senior at Andover in 2021, Gillette was the Globe’s Will McDonough Female Athlete of the Year.
▪ Westfield State senior Julianne Kelly, a Natick graduate, was one of seven Owls from Massachusetts to make the 10-runner MASCAC All-Conference team. Joining Kelly was Agawam’s Reese Stephens, Longmeadow’s Shea Hamel, Dracut’s Tealei Chandonnet (a Greater Lowell Tech graduate), Methuen’s Brooke Soucy, Billerica’s Samantha Panzeri (an Eagle Hill graduate), and Haverhill’s Brynne LeCours. It was the fourth-straight All-Conference nod for Kelly and Hamel.
▪ Brandeis junior Jackson Sullivan, a Greater Commonwealth Virtual School graduate from Somerville, was named Brandeis Athlete of the Week after reaching the semifinals of the New England Intercollegiate Fencing Conference Fall Tournament, also known as the Big One. Sullivan rolled through the bracket, never surrendering more than 7 points in the 15-point bouts as the 21st seed, before falling to Brown’s Ansel Edison in the semis.
▪ Amherst junior Harrison Dow, a Concord-Carlisle graduate, was named to the NESCAC Men’s Cross-Country First Team for the second year in a row. Connecticut College junior Ellis Iurilli-Hough, a Melrose graduate, was named to the second team.
▪ Williams junior Tamar Byl-Brann, an Amherst graduate, was named to the NESCAC Women’s Cross-Country First Team for the second year in a row, as was Williams senior Kate Swann, a Mt. Greylock graduate from Williamstown. Williams senior Charlene Peng, a Franklin graduate, made the second team, as did Williams senior Fiona Picone, an Oakmont graduate from Ashburnham, and Tufts senior Elizabeth Donahue, a Reading graduate.
Salem High will hold its 2025 Athletic Hall of fame induction ceremony on Nov. 18 (6 p.m.) at Veterans Memorial Field House. Tickets ($50 per person, children under 10 free) can be purchased here.
This year’s class features: Alix Bryant (2014; soccer, basketball, track), Jessica Corneau (2007; gymnastics, track), Edwin Demoya (2011; soccer), Joseph Fabiano (1994; football, hockey, baseball), Joseph Freeman (1995; football, track), Brian Lockard (1978; cross-country, track), Jared Louf Woods (2013; football, basketball, track), Jamal Mercado (1995; football, track), Hannah Mullarkey (2014; volleyball), Sarah Mullarkey (2011; volleyball), Richard “Rick” O’Leary (1988; football, baseball), Beau Theriault (2008; golf, basketball, baseball), Paul Tucker (1976; cross-country, track), and Melikke Van Alstyne (2009; football, track).
8. Field hockey leaderboard
Addie Finlaw, Somerset Berkley, 4
Amelia Blood, Uxbridge, 3
Julianna Casucci, Uxbridge, 3
Julie Pacheco, Somerset Berkley, 3
Gabby Palermo, Nashoba, 3
Libby Baxter, Hingham, 2
Ella Dacey, Walpole, 2
Kenzie Heroux, Somerset Berkley, 2
Kate Schneider, Walpole, 2
Sabrina Tibbert, Lincoln-Sudbury, 2
Addie Finlaw, Somerset Berkley, 5
Ryan Crook, Somerset Berkley, 3
Ella Vaught, Somerset Berkley, 3
Ava Magnuson, Sutton, 5
Nathan Calcano, Abington, 4
Lucy Irwin, Central Catholic, 4
Bret Amorosino, Norwell, 3
Quinn Anderson, Sandwich, 3
Kaylee Barrett, Lynnfield, 3
Sabrina Fabrizio, Oliver Ames, 3
Aly Fernandes, Mansfield, 3
Sunny Gallagher, Rockport, 3
Brandon Gardner, Mansfield, 3
Libby Harper, Hull, 3
Zhunay Moulton, Auburn, 3
Lydia Proia, Natick, 3
Mya Ranieri, Braintree, 3
Taylor Bello, Hingham, 2
Ella Cammarata, Masconomet, 2
Gui Cardoso, Hopedale, 2
Carter Couto, Westport, 2
Ava Damiani, Lynnfield, 2
Maddie Fernandes, Mansfield, 2
Sophia Gauron, Hamilton-Wenham, 2
Bailey Kerrigan, Littleton, 2
Maeve Maroney, Hingham, 2
Garrison Murphy, St. John’s Prep, 2
Brianna Ramos, Hull, 2
Ava Quintin, King Philip, 2
Kaylee Barrett, Lynnfield, 7
Aly Fernandes, Mansfield, 7
Zhunay Moulton, Auburn, 7
Lydia Proia, Natick, 7
Brianna Ramos, Hull, 7
Ava Damiani, Lynnfield, 6
Sarah Tressler, Central Catholic, 5
Alex Corey, Littleton, 4
Morgan Lovell, Franklin, 4
Gus Tratnyak, Hamilton-Wenham, 4
10. Girls’ volleyball leaders
Chloe Dubuisson, Canton, 14
Mia Milani, Bellingham, 13
Emerson Delleo, Franklin, 12
Makayla Kuykendall, Franklin, 12
Melanie McDonough, Canton, 12
Val Nolan, Bellingham, 12
Madilyn Botelho, Joseph Case, 11
Kayla Dowdell, Joseph Case, 11
Olivia Alberti, Franklin, 10
Lily Rego, Joseph Case, 10
Phoebe O’Connor, Franklin, 38
Erin Bigham, Canton, 23
Soley Rodriguez Martinez, Canton, 22
Erin Bigham, Canton, 14
Emma Cunningham, Franklin, 12
Emerson Delleo, Franklin, 12
Makayla Kuykendall, Franklin, 10
Phoebe O’Connor, Franklin, 8
Olivia Alberti, Franklin, 4
Charlotte Yeulenski, Franklin, 3
Madilyn Botelho, Joseph Case, 4
Erin Bigham, Canton, 3
Mia Milani, Bellingham, 3
Val Nolan, Bellingham, 3
Brendan Kurie can be reached at brendan.kurie@globe.com. Follow him on X @BrendanKurie.
Massachusetts
Herring Population Is Booming In Massachusetts | WBZ NewsRadio 1030
ALEWIFE, Mass. (WBZ NewsRadio) — It’s a plentiful year for River Herring in Massachusetts.
Daria Santollani is the senior engagement manager at the Mystic Watershed Association, the organization that tracks herring population and migration every year since 2012.
She told WBZ NewsRadio that this year, volunteers reported the highest number of herring passing through the Boston Harbor into the Mystic River, at nearly 815,000.
“It’s just amazing that the largest migration of herring in Massachusetts happens in the most urban watershed,” she said.
In the past, overfishing depleted the herring population. In 2012, the association reported the herring population was only around 21,052.
“Because of interventions like fish ladders at the Mystic Lake dams, we’re starting to see that population come back,” she said.
By 2019, the herring population had grown to nearly 789,000. However, there was a dramatic dip in 2020 with only around 378,000 herrings reported.
According to the association, the state’s Division of Marine Fisheries attributed the decline to the statewide drought in 2016 that caused lower reproduction of the fish.
Despite that setback, the herring population continued to grow every year since, with more than 550,000 reported in 2021, and jumped to nearly 640,000 in 2024.
River herrings are not only an important food source for indigenous people but also play an ecologically significant role in both freshwater and marine food webs.
“The Alewife T station is named Alewife because of this fish,” Santollani added.
She credited the hundreds of volunteers who spend every day counting the herrings passing by during migration season.
“From April through June, seven days a week, 7 a.m. to 7 p.m., [each volunteer] going for an hour to count how many herrings they’re seeing passing the dam,” she continued.
WBZ NewsRadio’s Emma Friedman (@EmmaFriedmanWBZ) reports.
Massachusetts
Food supply issues in Mass. after government shutdown: ‘My confidence is shaken’
Food insecurity is on the mind of many across the Massachusetts, after the 43-day government shutdown and its brief pause in SNAP food aid funding
The crisis sent ripple effects throughout the food benefits system and put a strain on supply.
“My confidence is shaken,” said Andrew Morehouse, with the Food Bank of Western Massachusetts.
He said the organization “has had to dip into private funding,” and that about a third of its food comes from the state.
“With the rising need and SNAP disaster, we’ve realized we need to do more,” said Rachel Albert with Food Link.
People in Massachusetts who rely on SNAP food payments will get the payment that had been missed in November amid the government shutdown had the funds released, Gov. Maura Healey said.
Gov. Maura Healey on Monday discussed the “continuing need across” Massachusetts for food.
Previously, the federal government had funded SNAP benefits during government shutdowns, and she said, “I sure hope that, as we go forward, human beings, people, aren’t used as political pawns.”
Political calculations that only add to growing uncertainty.
“During the great recession and pandemic, the federal government had our backs,” said Morehouse, “That was not the case during the government shutdown.”
SNAP benefits have been extended through September 2026 as part of the agreement to reopen the government.
Massachusetts
Massachusetts water resources body punts on permanently dumping sewage into Charles River
The Massachusetts Water Resources Authority may have been caught loving that dirty water a little too much, as its board has halted a proposal that clean water advocates fear would dump sewage into the Charles River forever.
The MWRA Board of Directors has tabled its upcoming vote, scheduled for Wednesday, on whether to reclassify the Charles as a water body that allows for maximum sewage overflows.
This comes after the Charles River Watershed Association and other clean-water advocates slammed the MWRA for considering the option to address a decades-old problem of combined sewer overflows, or CSOs.
These systems collect stormwater and household and industrial waste in the same pipes, destined for treatment plants. But it allows rain to overwhelm the system and dump sewage contamination out through overflows. The CRWA says CSOs have proven to be a “key source of pathogen and bacteria contamination.”
“The public has responded loud and clear. No amount of sewage is acceptable to be dumped in our beloved Charles River,” CRWA Executive Director Emily Norton said in a statement. “We are glad to hear that MWRA is finally listening to public input and postponing a decision on this terrible proposal.”
MWRA spokesperson Sean Navin said that officials need to address questions and comments before the plan is reconsidered at a future meeting.
The MWRA says it has invested more than $900 million to eliminate 90% of CSOs in its service area over the past few decades.
The problem remains, though, with outfalls located in the lower Charles River and in the Alewife Brook/Upper Mystic River Basin. Advocates argue that climate change is exacerbating the issue, as CSOs struggle to handle excess polluted water from heavy rainstorms.
“This is the generational decision that we need to make,” MWRA executive director Frederick A. Laskey said at last month’s meeting. “But we do have to move forward with a responsible plan that we can defend, and that’s continuously, at the end of the day, financial stability.”
The Charles River Watershed Association has long been pressuring the MWRA to stop polluting the Charles with sewage. Most recently, in April, the organization launched a campaign in which nearly 800 people have signed petitions or sent emails to the MWRA, urging the association to “cut the crap.”
The CRWA also says the proposal is “at odds” with how the Healey administration’s so-called “biodiversity plan” has a goal of “dramatically” reducing water pollution.
“Significantly reduce or eliminate combined-sewer overflows (CSOs),” the plan states, “sanitary sewer overflows (SSOs), stormwater runoff, and septic pollution through sewer separation, treatment plant upgrades, sewer expansion, aquatic habitat buffers, and green infrastructure to protect biodiversity, shellfish beds, and public health. Increase investment and technical assistance for curbing stormwater pollution to ensure waters are swimmable and fishable.”
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