NORTH SHORE (Results)
Boys Basketball
Lynnfield 53 Saugus 29
Boys Ice Hockey
St. Mary’s 3 Arlington 1
St. John’s Prep 5 Burlington 4 (OT)
Girls Ice Hockey
Austin Prep 5 Beverly 0
Hingham 2 St. Mary’s 0
Tonight
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College Sports News / Endicott Women’s Lacrosse
BEVERLY, Mass. – The Endicott women’s lacrosse team fell just short, 10-9, to the visiting Wellesley College Blue Wednesday evening at Hempstead Stadium in non-conference action.
Wellesley opened the game with the first two goals, before Endicott stormed back to take a 3-2 lead on junior midfielder Chelsea Burke‘s (Georgetown, Mass.) first career goal at the 16:20 mark of the first half on a feed from freshman defender Molly McMahon (Hanover, Mass.) picking up her first career assist.
The Blue then rattled off four straight goals to take a 6-3 lead into the break, as junior midfielder Nikki Sharkin (Summit, N.J.) tallied her second and third goals on her way to a first half hat trick.
Wellesley notched three goals to begin the second half as junior attack Mary Lemay (Longmeadow, Mass.) netted back-to-back scores for the Blue.
Endicott strung together six consecutive goals to tie the game at 9-9 with 7:06 to play in regulation on freshman midfielder Jaime Balboni‘s (Billerica, Mass.) unassisted deposit.
Wellesley’s game-winning goal came courtesy of Lemay’s free position shot with 0:04 on the clock.
BEYOND THE BOX SCORE
- Endicott out-shot the Blue, 23-19.
- Junior goalie Maura Grady (Marblehead, Mass.) stopped six shots as she fell to 0-3 on the season.
- Freshman midfielder Ali Campbell (Lakeville, Mass.) won a team-high four draw controls.
- Junior midfielder Emily Whitney (Rye, N.H.) had a hat trick and tallied one assist as she currently is tied with Glenn with a team-leading six goals on the season.
- Sophomore attack Jess Glenn (Underhill, Vt.), Burke, McMahon, and Campbell all recorded one goal and one assist in the effort.
- Balboni extended her scoring streak to three games as she registered one goal tonight and tied for a game-high with senior defender Brenna Shannon (Stratham, N.H.) with three caused turnovers.
- Sophomore attack Erin McCarthy (Old Lyme, Conn.) also extended her scoring streak to three games with one goal tonight.
FOR THE FOES
- Sharkin scored four goals as she took a game-high eight shots, had one assist, and scooped up a tied-for-game-high three ground balls, in addition to winning a game-high five draw controls.
- Lemay also scored four goals (second half hat trick), including the game-winner, and had one assist.
- Junior goalie Wendy Nettleton (La Jolla, Calif.) made 10 saves as she improved to 2-1 on the season.
- The Blue had a stretch of seven straight goals from 11:17 of the first half to the 27:20 mark of the second half.
NOTES
- Endicott is 7-2 all-time against Wellesley and 3-2 at home dating back to the 2008 season.
- The Gulls had won the past six meetings against the Blue coming into the game, including a 10-8 win in Wellesley, Mass. in the most recent meeting on March 28, 2015, but the Blue snapped that streak tonight.
WHAT’S NEXT
Endicott (0-3, 0-0 CCC) is off until the Gulls will play two games in Clermont, Fla. over Spring Break against RPI on March 14 and Trinity (Conn.) on March 17. Wellesley (2-1, 0-0 NEWMAC) plays at Eastern Conn. St. on Saturday, March 12 at 12:00 p.m.
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DURHAM, N.H. – The Endicott equestrian team shined in its spring season opener at the University of New Hampshire (UNH) as the Gulls registered 13 top-10 performances on Saturday afternoon at the UNH Equine Center.
Silvia Graf (New London, N.H.), Morgan Entwistle (Trumbull, Conn.), and McKenzie Paiva highlighted Endicott on Saturday as all three student-athletes recorded a first place finish in their respective events.
Graf ranked first in her open jumping class, while Entwistle and Paiva place first overall in novice flat.
Graf also came in third in open flat along with teammate Emily Charette (Tiverton, R.I.), who earlier in the day, checked in at sixth overall in the first open jumping class of the UNH Show.
Kyra Crist (Marblehead, Mass.) turned in a pair of top-5 finishes as the junior rider was awarded second in novice flat and fifth in novice fences.
Hannah Sittig-Boyd also highlighted Endicott’s efforts on Saturday by placing fourth overall in her first-ever walk trot class.
Rounding out the list of competitors for the Gulls were Nicole McClellan (Tolland, Mass.), Caitlin Dwyer (Nashua, N.H.), Bronwen Hall, and Kaitlyn Lawson, as all four student-athletes finished fifth overall in their respective events. McCellan competed in intermediate fences, while Dywer represented Endicott in the intermediate flat class. Meanwhile, Hall added to Endicott’s bevy of top-10 placements in advanced walk trot canter class, while Lawson closed out the group with her fifth place performance in the beginner walk trot class.
TOP QUOTE
“I was so proud of all of our Endicott riders new and seasoned! They gave it their all and shined throughout the day! It was a great way to end the regular season this year,” said Endicott head coach Bethany Jones.
WHAT’S NEXT
Endicott returns to action on Saturday, April 2 when the Gulls compete at Regionals in Etna, N.H. at the Dartmouth Riding Center (Morton Farm).
Information supplied from Endicott College sports information office.
