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Football
Minuteman 20 KIPP (Lynn) 14
Boys Soccer
Chelsea 4 Lynn Tech 1
Girls Soccer
Bishop Fenwick 3 St. Mary’s 0
Lynnfield 5 Rockport 1
Masconomet 3 Hamilton-Wenham 0 – Comment’s below from HW coach Nancy Waddell, “The score was 0-0 at halftime, but Masco had too much power for the Generals today. Masco got on the board in the 53rd minute on a mix-up at the top of the penalty box.They scored again from a pass off of a free kick that the Generals played like a corner kick in the 72 minute. The third goal came a minute later.
Field Hockey
Swampscott 3 Peabody 0
Marblehead 1 Saugus 0
Volleyball
Lynn Classical 3 Saugus 0
Beverly 3 Salem 0
North Reading 3 Peabody 2
Danvers 3 Bishop Fenwick 0
Salem State Volleyball Wins
SALEM. – Maddi O’Connor (Hamilton, Mass.) and Jasmine Severino (Lawrence, Mass.) combined for 15 kills and Mackenzie Salls (Turners Falls, Mass.) added 25 assists as Salem State blanked Pine Manor 3-0 on Thursday evening at Twohig Gymnasium. The Vikings sparked by a 25-9 win in the first set, won the next two sets by scores of 25-20 and 25-18 to complete the sweep.
Salem State (4-3) broke open a close second set with an 8-1 run, taking advantage of -.059 hitting percentage by Pine Manor (2-3). The Gators rallied back to tie the score at 21-21 on back-to-back kills by Keisha Hadron (Yokosuka, Japan), but the Vikings prevailed as Severino and Samantha Chaisson (Duxbury, Mass.) ended the threat with successive kills.
Seven service aces by Salem State in the third set gave the Vikings a comfortable 23-15 lead as kills by Danielle Joseph (Waltham, Mass.) and O’Connor cemented the win.
Hannah Mullarkey (Salem, Mass.) finished with 15 digs and three aces while Chaisson added five kills and four aces.
Alexa Leon (El Centro, Calif.) had four kills, four aces and 22 digs for Pine Manor while Ashley Whiteshield (Seward, Alaska) added six assists.
Salem State Field Hockey Wins
LEICESTER, Mass. — The Becker College field hockey team lost 6-0 to visiting Salem State University on Thursday afternoon at Alumni Field.
The Vikings of Salem State (1-4) scored first in the 18th minute when senior midfielder Courtney Kilgore (Wakefield, Mass. / Malden) caught the keeper out of position and scored her first goal of the season off a pass from freshman forward Vanessa Yavorski (Georgetown, Mass. / Georgetown). Just a minute and a half later, Kilgore returned the favor when Yavorski scored the first goal of her young career off a pass from the senior mid. In the 22nd minute, Yavorski scored again, this time off an assist to junior forward Courtney Smith (Peabody, Mass. / Peabody Veterans Memorial). The with just 49.4 remaining in the period, Yavorski found senior defender Julia Klein (Liverpool, N.Y. / Liverpool) off a corner for Klein’s second goal of the season. The Vikings entered halftime leading 4-0.
In the second half, sophomore midfielder Kaitlynn Palmer (Verona, N.Y. / Vernon-Verona-Sherrill) scored off a pass from Kilgore in the 44th minute as the Vikings went ahead by five. Kilgore wrapped up the scoring with a strike in the 63rd minute.
The Hawks of Becker (0-4) were led by junior goalkeeper Alexis Barry (Manchester, N.H. / Manchester Central) with 19 saves, two off her season high.
For the game, the Vikings outshot the Hawks, 38-3, with a 12-2 edge in corners.
Becker will be back on the field on Saturday when they host Colby-Sawyer University at 1:00 p.m. Salem State travels to UMass Dartmouth on Saturday for a 2:00 p.m. LEC contest.
Endicott College Women’s Tennis Wins
BEVERLY – The Endicott women’s tennis team posted a 9-0 victory over crosstown rival Salem State University on Thursday evening at the South Campus Tennis Courts. It also marks the third straight shutout win for the Gulls.
Several members of Endicott’s freshmen class shined in the victory, as Gretta Hartman (Glastonbury, Conn.), Clare O’Keefe (Lutz, Fla.), Cameron Foley (Lynnfield, Mass.), Emily Licciardi (Haverhill, Mass.), Annie Leys (Middletown, R.I.), and Jennifer Stone (Baldwinsville, N.Y.) all found their way into the win column.
Hartman highlighted the group with a gutsy 6-7 (0-7), 6-1, 10-4 come-from-behind triumph at No. 1 singles, while Licciardi and O’Keefe collected their first collegiate victories in singles (No. 4/No.6). Meanwhile, the doubles pairing of Leys/Stone earned their first-ever wins at No. 3 to round out the group’s achievements on the day.
TOP QUOTE
“That was a fun match against our neighbors,” said Endicott women’s tennis head coach Jeremy Howard. “It was great to see a couple of freshmen register their first collegiate victories, and to watch Gretta complete the win at first singles. She put up a heck of a fight to bounce back from an early deficit and comeback for the victory.”
BEYOND THE BOX SCORE
With her 6-0, 6-0 win at No. 2 singles, Gillian Freter (Scituate, Mass.) is 5-0 on the year (1-0 at No. 2 | 4-0 at No. 3).
Alexi Losano (Saugus, Mass.) notched a 6-1, 6-2 victory at No. 3 singles to improve to 3-1 overall this season (1-0 at No. 3 | 2-1 at No. 6).
Cameron Foley (Lynnfield, Mass.) remained undefeated in her freshman campaign with a 6-1, 6-1 triumph at No. 5.
Hayley Barnett (Marlboro, N.J.)/Reilly Fitzgibbons (Killingworth, Conn.) and Lauren Rahr (Waterford, Conn.)/Alexandra Barmore (Southington, Conn.) registered victories at No. 1 (8-1) and No. 2 (8-0) doubles, respectively. Both pairings are a combined 8-0 in doubles action on the year.
WHAT’S NEXT
Endicott (4-1) travels to Eastern Nazarene on Saturday, September 16 for a conference matchup scheduled for 1 PM. Salem State (1-2) visits Rhode Island College this Saturday for a Little East Conference (LEC) showdown at 1 PM.
