Seven high school sports takeaways from an action-packed Sunday featuring the Meet of Champions and more

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The lowest seed remaining? No. 21 Bishop Fenwick girls' tennis, which will face top-seeded Dover-Sherborn in the Division 3 semifinal Tuesday at Newton North.
The highest seed eliminated? It's a four-way tie. Three No. 1 seeds have been knocked out in the baseball brackets (D1's Taunton, D3's St. Mary's, and D5's Turners Falls), but only one other No. 1 seed has fallen across all sports and divisions: Boston Latin girls' tennis, which was knocked out of the Division 1 tourney by eighth-seeded Winchester.
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The lowest seed remaining in each sport?
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Boys tennis: No. 13 Latin Academy in D3.
Boys' lacrosse: No. 10 Westwood in D2.
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Girls' lacrosse: No. 6 Westford in D1.
Softball: No. 10 Greater New Bedford in D3.
Baseball: No. 14 Chelmsford in D1.
Why didn't you include boys' volleyball or rugby? Because both volleyball divisions and all three rugby divisions (boys and girls) went to chalk, with only the top seeds still standing.
Most semifinals get started Tuesday, with a few boys' tennis semis on Monday, plus the final six quarterfinal matchups, three of which are suspended games that will be resumed.
Now onto Sunday's results, including the
1. Reading list
2. Walkoff wins
Freshman
Drew Cantrell
kept Walpole's season alive with the winning hit in the bottom of the 12th inning to defeat Mansfield, 2-1, in the Division 2 quarterfinals.
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Glenn Mello
did the same for North Reading, walking off Apponequet with an RBI double for a 5-4 eight-inning Division 3 quarterfinal victory.
Over in Reading, the Rockets needed a wild pitch with two outs in the bottom of the seventh to score
Sam Clark
and force extra innings. And in the bottom of the eighth,
Nate Vitarisi
provided the walkoff single in a 2-1 Division 2 quarterfinal win.
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On the lacrosse field, Westford senior
Kassidy Carmichael
, an Ohio State commit, split three defenders to net the winning goal with two minutes left in the second half of the first overtime, ending Lincoln-Sudbury's season in the Division 1 quarterfinal.
Scituate senior
Willy Robinson
scored the last of his eight goals in overtime to send the Sailors past Dracut, 10-9, and into a semifinal matchup with Medfield that serves as a rematch of last year's 2024 D3 title game.
3. Four stars
Three performances mirrored each other, but we also couldn't leave out Wayland's star hitter, so we decided to add a star.
Kiley Hogan
, Tyngsborough — The junior got the Tigers started right with a two-run homer in the first inning, then pitched a complete game, allowing one earned run while striking out nine without issuing a walk as the Tigers topped AMSA, 3-2, in the Division 4 softball quarterfinals.
Delaney Moquin
, Silver Lake — The senior tossed a 14-strikeout shutout and launched a two-run home run in the first inning to lead Silver Lake past Middleborough, 7-0, in Division 2 quarterfinals
Alyx Rossi
, Bedford — The Boston College-bound senior struck out 18 in a three-hit shutout and blasting the first pitch she saw for a two-run homer (for the second-straight game) in the Buccaneers' 6-0 Division 2 quarterfinal win over Tewksbury. Rossi has struck out 51 in 21 playoff innings without surrendering a run.
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Finn Bell
, Wayland — The junior slammed down 32 kills, adding 12 digs and four aces, as he surpassed 1,000 career kills in the Warriors' 3-1 Division 2 quarterfinal win over Marlborough. 'He's missed five games in every season so far, and still hit 1,000 kills in his junior year, which is pretty unbelievable,' said coach Phil George.
Finn Bell has reached 1,000 kills!
— AJ (@aj_traub)
4. Going, going, gone
Wachusett and Nipmuc both saw teammates go yard in their quarterfinal games, with
Giana Johnason
and
Kendall Grady
leaving the yard for Wachusett in a 4-1 Division 1 win over St. Paul, and
Savannah Carr
and
Maya Vercruysse
delivering dingers in Nipmuc's 3-0 Division 3 victory against Tantasqua.
Also homering were Lynnfield's
Ty Adamo
and
Andrew Schmit
of St. John's (Shrewsbury), in addition to Rossi, Moquin, and Hogan.
5. Daily lacrosse leaderboard
Goals
Willy Robinson
, Scituate, 8
Kassidy Carmichael
, Westford, 7
Jenna Wong
, Walpole, 7
Abby Beggans
, Wellesley, 6
Tara Battaglino
, Wellesley, 5
Oliva Comella
, Wellesley, 4
Jackson Gearing
, Billerica, 4
6. Daily strikeout leaderboard
Alyx Rossi
, Bedford, 18
Delaney Moquin
, Silver Lake, 14
Emily Atwood
, Hopedale, 11
Cate Larson
, Taunton, 11
Luis Mejia
, English, 11
Luke Disilvio
, Lynnfield, 10
Cormac Heney
, Hamilton-Wenham, 10
Kiley Hogan
, Tyngsborough, 9
Thurston Kiefer
, Natick, 9
Brayden Mercier
, St. John's (Shrewsbury), 9
Matt Stuart
, Chelmsford, 8
7. Getting the call
Ian Seymour
, a 2017 St. John's (Shrewsbury) graduate, was called up by the Tampa Bay Rays on Sunday morning and is on the verge of making his MLB debut.
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Seymour, a 26-year-old lefthander who played at Virginia Tech before being selected by the Rays in the second round of the 2020 draft, is 5-3 with a 2.95 ERA in 12 appearances (11 starts) for the Triple-A Durham Bulls, striking out 84 in 61 innings.
He was not one of three relievers the Rays used in a 3-2 win over the Marlins.
Congratulations to Ian Seymour '17 on being called up to the
— Saint John's HS Pioneers Baseball (@SJHSBaseball)
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