Notes
Pawel Brzykey has been named the new Danvers High School boys soccer coach.
Today’s high school baseball games to watch: Winthrop at Lynn Classical, Peabody at Marblehead, Lynn English at Swampscott, Danvers at Gloucester, Revere at Saugus, Beverly at Salem.
Boys Lacrosse
Gloucester 8 Peabody 7 – Late goal by Pat Cross wins match for Fishermen
Marblehead 14 Swampscott 1
Essex Tech 112 St. Mary’s 7
Girls Lacrosse
Danvers 16 Salem 7
Peabody 15 Revere 4
Ipswich 20 Georgetown 5
Manchester-Essex 17 Hamilton-Wenham 9 (HW Goals – Mazey Loomis and Kayla Frain each had three goals, Tessa Landon had 2 goals and Sophie Frain had one goal. Sophie Frain had 4 draw controls, Grace Monahan had 3 draw controls.
BEVERLY – The Endicott men’s lacrosse team used a balanced attack to defeat the University of New England (UNE), 13-11, on Tuesday evening at Hempstead Stadium.
With the win, the Gulls (8-8, 7-1 CCC) locked up the No. 2 seed in the upcoming Commonwealth Coast Conference (CCC) Tournament. UNE, who drops to 10-7 overall and 5-3 in CCC play with the loss, will enter the conference tournament later this weekend as the No. 4 seed.
Endicott’s offense featured seven different goal scorers in tonight’s win, including Will Jennings (Danvers, Mass.), Colin Bannon (Westport, Conn.), Mitchell Tapley (Falmouth, Maine), Peter Field Jr. (Hampstead, N.H.), Thomas Harvey (Huntington, N.Y.), Kenneth Speak (Melbourne, Australia), and Tommy Hughes (Coram, N.Y.). Jennings paced the group with three goals, while Bannon, Tapley, Field Jr., and Harvey all buried two goals apiece. Speak and Hughes rounded out the scoring with one solo tally, respectively.
Andrew Curro (Niskayuna, N.Y.) paced the Nor’easters with a hat-trick, while Dan Auger (Nashua, N.H.), Tom Luttrell (Greebrae, Calif.), and Mitch Mullin (Cumberland, Maine) all chipped in with two goals each. Connor Leggett (Sunderland, Vt.) and Matt Layton (Medford, N.Y.) also contributed one goal apiece in the loss.
UNE held a 5-4 advantage at the end of the first quarter, but the Gulls responded in the second behind Hughes who won all four faceoffs, which helped Endicott post a 4-0 differential on the scoreboard.
Hughes also started the scoring in the second when he fired home his seventh goal of the season at the 14:53 mark of the quarter, while Harvey netted back-to-back tallies at 12:58 and 7:02, respectively, to give Endicott a 7-5 advantage. Jennings then capped the scoring with four-seconds remaining on a feed from Bannon to head into halftime leading 8-5.
In the third, Endicott continued to pour it on as the Gulls received goals from Bannon (10:53) and Speak (9:48) to extend their consecutive goals streak to seven straight after Jennings started the run with 42-seconds to play in the first. The Nor’easters finally answered with a 3-1 run to wrap up the third quarter and cut into their deficit at 11-8.
UNE brought the contest within one on two separate occasions in the fourth (11-10, 12-11), but Field Jr. squashed any chance of a comeback by the Nor’easters with his 19th marker of the season with 35-seconds to play to lock up the win.
BEYOND THE BOX SCORE
- Endicott is now 23-2 in the all-time series versus UNE.
- Hughes went 21-for-27 at the face-off X and also scooped up 18 ground balls (ties career-high).
- Bannon (2g, 4a) and Jennings (3g, 3a) tied for the team-high in points tonight with six apiece.
- Along with controlling possession at the X, the Gulls went 19-for-22 in clear attempts.
- Bannon currently ranks tied for seventh in points for a single-season with 84, while Jennings is eighth at 81.
- Jennings came in to tonight’s game ranked seventh nationally in points per game, while Bannon checked in at No. 13 overall.
- Bannon also added a team-high three caused turnovers to his stat line.
- Cameron Bell (Falmouth, Maine) finished with nine saves to improve to 8-8 on the season.
FOR THE FOES
- David Pearson (Scarborough, Maine) made 13 saves in the second half (30:00).
- John Dusel (Wilbraham, Mass.) stopped seven shots in the first half, and also received the loss (6-6) in the game.
- Auger led the team in points with six total (2g, 4a).
- Mullin and Chris Harlow (Boston, Mass.) tallied a team-high three caused turnovers.
WHAT’S NEXT
Endicott will play the winner of No. 3 Roger Williams and No. 6 Wentworth next Wednesday at a time to be determined later. UNE will host No. 5 Salve Regina in the CCC Tournament quarterfinals this Saturday (also a time to be determined later).
BEVERLY – The Endicott women’s lacrosse team rallied from an early deficit to defeat visiting University of New England, 12-9, Tuesday evening at Hempstead Stadium in the final regular season Commonwealth Coast Conference (CCC) matchup.
The Nor’easters stormed out to a fast start as they built a 4-0 lead with 22:51 to play in the first half before freshman midfielder Jackie Neilsen (Agawam, Mass.) got the Gulls on a scoreboard on a feed from junior midfielder Emily Whitney (Rye, N.H.) at the 21:29 minute mark.
UNE led 6-3 for its last lead of the game before Endicott took control in the first half with five straight goals, including freshman midfielder Ali Campbell‘s (Lakeville, Mass.) unassisted tally to give the Gulls their first lead of the day (7-6 with 7:46 remaining) and headed into halftime with an 8-7 advantage.
The Nor’easters tied it up at 8-all to begin the second half on junior midfielder Carly Sheehan’s (South Kingstown, R.I.) strike from freshman attack Nicole Carvalho (South Kingstown, R.I.) at 25:05.
The Gulls rattled off four in a row, including sophomore midfielder Olivia Larson‘s (Cheshire, Conn.) free-position goal to complete her hat trick, which gave the Gulls a 9-8 edge with 21:53 remaining in regulation and the team never looked back.
UNE managed to tack on one more AT 2:19 before the final buzzer sounded, but it proved to be too late to stage a comeback as junior Maura Grady (Marblehead, Mass.) improved to 5-9 in goal with six saves in the effort.
BEYOND THE BOX SCORE
- Whitney stretched her scoring streak to seven straight games with two goals, two assists, and a season-high/team-high three caused turnovers on the day.
- Whitney has scored in 14 of the Gulls’ 16 games this season.
- Sophomore attack Erin McCarthy (Old Lyme, Conn.) tied her career high with a game-high four goals as she netted two in each half.
- Freshman midfielder Jaime Balboni (Billerica, Mass.) won a team-high four draw controls.
- Junior midfielder Chelsea Burke (Georgetown, Mass.) registered her first career free-position goal as her fourth goal of the season.
- UNe committed 25 fouls compared to Endicott’s nine.
FOR THE FOES
- Senior net-minder Courtney Kendall (Waltham, Mass.) stopped five shots as she fell to 9-5 on the year.
- Sophomore defender Jolena Lampron (Lyman, Maine) caused a game-high six turnovers and scooped up a game-high four ground balls alongside senior defender Lauryn Huck (Saratoga Springs, N.Y.) as Endicott turned the ball over 21 times compared to UNE’s 19.
- Freshman midfielder Korinne Bohunsky (Eliot, Maine) won a game-high five draw controls and tallied a team-high two assists (tied for game-high).
- Sheehan, junior midfielder Jocelyn Davee (Freeport, Maine) and sophomore midfielder Paige St. George (Manchester, N.H.) each potted a pair of goals for the Nor’easters.
NOTES
- The Gulls are 16-5 all-time and 9-2 at home all-time against UNE, dating back prior to the 2001 season.
- Endicott has won 16 straight against the Nor’easters, including a narrow 12-11 victory in Biddeford, Maine in the most recent meeting before today on April 8, 2015.
WHAT’S NEXT
Endicott (7-9, 6-2 CCC) and UNE (10-6, 6-2 CCC) both await CCC postseason seeds to be announced soon as the CCC Quarterfinals will begin on Saturday, April 30th with the CCC Semifinals set for Wednesday, May 4th and CCC Championship on Saturday, May 7th, 2016.
Information supplied by Endicott College Sports Information Department
