Seven takeaways from Wednesday's high school action, as well as the MIAA basketball committee

Boston Globe

22-05-2025

1. Milestones
Let's work our way down to 100, starting with Apponequet senior goalie
Ally Arruda
, who made 10 stops in a 17-5 win over Fairhaven, pushing her past 600 career saves.
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King Philip senior
Makenzie McDevitt
, who is committed to play women's lacrosse at Boston University, recorded her 300th career point while scoring five goals in a 13-9 loss to Medfield.
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Norton softball coach
Wade Lizotte
secured his 200th win, 1-0, over Joseph Case, Abington junior
Matthew Grafton
(4 goals, 5 assists) netted his 200th point in an 11-7 win over South Shore, and North Quincy senior
Iris Gjoka
earned her 200th career point while scoring seven goals in a 17-11 victory against Plymouth South.
🥍 Girls Lacrosse FINAL
North Quincy- 17
Plymouth South- 11
NQ senior, Iris Gjoka scored 7 goals in the victory - including tallying her 200th career point.
— North Quincy Athletics (@NQRaiders)
Now on to all those 100s. Dighton-Rehoboth's
Mara Levesque
(4 goals) scored her 100th goal in a 16-5 win over Bourne, Whittier Tech's
Conor Walsh
(8 goals, 5 assists) netted his 100th career goal in a 17-2 win over Minuteman, North Reading's
Lindsey Rosenthal
secured her 100th career caused turnover in a 12-5 win over Essex Tech, Quincy senior
Grace McGillicuddy
tallied her 100th career point in a 13-6 win over Plymouth North, Abington's
Brenna Howley
(2 for 3, double, triple) collected her 100th career hit in a 6-2 win over Cohasset, Bridgewater-Raynham's
Emily Keefe
(4 goals, assist) scored her 100th goal of the season in an 11-6 win over Attleboro, Brookline boys' tennis coach
Michael Mowatt
notched his 100th win in five seasons with the Warriors, Medfield girls lacrosse coach
Mary Laughna
secured her 100th career victory by beating King Philip, and Dighton-Rehoboth's
Camryn Cloonan
recently went triple-grand, reaching career milestones of 100 hits (126), 100 RBIs (101), and 100 runs (128).
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🥍 Girls Lacrosse FINAL
Quincy- 13
Plymouth North- 6
Presidents pick up the victory on Senior Night! Congratulations to senior, Grace McGillicuddy on tallying her 100th career point!
— Quincy HS Athletics (@QHSAthletics)
Congrats Coach Laughna!
— Medfield Athletics (@MedfieldAD)
BRIDGEWATER-RAYNHAM GIRLS VARSITY LACROSSE: EMILY KEEFE - 100 GOALS IN A SEASON: Emily Keefe scored her historic 100th goal of the 2025 regular season as a member of the Bridgewater-Raynham Trojans High School Girls Varsity Lacrosse team in the season finale against Attleboro on…
— West Bridgewater News (@WBNewsFacts)
Old Rochester's No. 1 singles player
Neva Matos
joined the milestone fun with her 50th career win during a 5-0 victory against Somerset Berkley that clinched a perfect league record for the Bulldogs.
2. Walkoff wins
On the lacrosse field, Holliston's
Pearce Duncan
delivered the overtime winner to finish off a 10-9 win against Nipmuc, while at Wareham's Spillane Field,
Jackson Cabe
drove in
Freddie Roy
for a walkoff, 7-6, win over Southeastern.
3. Going, going, gone
Senior
Emmy Monnreal
broke out the big bat Wednesday, crushing two homers and finishing with six RBIs for Haverhill in a 12-10 win over Burlington. She was far from the only powerful performance, highlighted by a grand slam from Lexington senior
Lidia Palys
in a 9-7 win over Woburn, a grand slam from Chelmsford senior
Jenna Nigro
in a 9-5 win over Concord-Carlisle, and Dighton-Rehoboth senior
Haleigh Kelley
, whose fourth-inning solo blast served as the lone tally in a 1-0 win over Bishop Feehan.
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The rest of the day's round-trippers belonged to Wayland's
Owen Finnegan
, Lincoln-Sudbury's
Nicole Lent
, Hamilton-Wenham's
Caden Shrock
, Walpole's
Grace Todd
, Weymouth's
Bella Pires
, Sandwich's
Joe Coughlan
, Greater Lowell's
Cora Wilder
, Tyngsborough's
Kiley Hogan
, Wareham's
Jossalyn Anctil
, and Central Catholic's
Chloe Salerno
and
Bella Boyer
.
4. Daily lacrosse leaderboard
Goals
Julia Kipperman
, Nauset, 9
Conor Walsh
, Whittier Tech, 8
Kenny Wisniewski
, Apponequet, 8
Iris Gjoka
, North Quincy, 7
Finn Wright
, Ipswich, 7
Izzy Kittredge
, Medfield, 5
Cece Levrault
, Apponequet, 5
Makenzie McDevitt
, King Philip, 5
Colin McKay
, Apponequet, 5
Katherine Morning
, Chelmsford, 5
Sophia Zeppiera
, Medfield, 5
Points
Wisniewski, Apponequet, 15
Walsh, Whittier Tech, 13
Matthew Grafton
, Abington, 9
Kipperman, Nauset, 9
Levrault, Apponequet, 9
Maddy Lubov
, Ursuline, 8
McKay, Apponequet, 8
Gjoka, North Quincy, 7
Gunner Hanna
, Abington, 7
Sean Rockwood
, Stoughton, 7
Wright, Ipswich, 7
5. Daily strikeout leaderboard
Jolee Anderson
, Wareham, 14
Taryn Clancy
, Middleborough, 13
Delaney Moquin
, Silver Lake, 13
Tessa Francis
, Marblehead, 12
Jill Ondrick
, Weymouth, 12
Tucker Bliss
, Cohasset, 11
Morgan Haskell
, Greater Lowell, 11
Chris Bratica
, Ashland, 10
Matthew Taylor
, Sandwich, 10
Reese Taylor
, Apponequet, 10
Cole Arruda
, Seekonk, 9
Camryn Jayde Collier
, Latin Academy, 9
Luca Finton
, Bourne, 9
Ryan Johnson
, Oliver Ames, 9
Elsie Testa
, Abington, 9
John Wright
, Medford, 9
6. Basketball committee rails against MOV
Margin of Victory and neutral locations for state quarterfinal games were the two main topics of discussion during Wednesday's virtual MIAA Basketball Committee meeting.
Much of the meeting was spent discussing options for altering the margin of victory cap, which is set at 10 points.
'Our committee suggested 1 [point max MOV] but that hasn't been supported by the [Tournament Management Committee],' said Dover-Sherborn boys' basketball coach
Rick Grady
, one of the coaches' reps on the committee. 'Maybe we could suggest a smaller number than 10? We've heard of situations where teams didn't foul at the end of games if you're down 4 or 5 and are afraid of losing by 10.'
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Whitman-Hanson athletic director
Bob Rodgers
, a vocal opponent of the MOV, expressed reticence to changing the number on the fly.
'I will grant that the results have been OK,' Rodgers said. 'I wouldn't want to change it so the results aren't OK, but we're still dealing with MOV. Until it's fixed, I'd rather not touch it, even though I used to be a proponent for making it 1.'
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Always pragmatic, St. Mary's AD and girls' basketball coach Jeff Newhall stepped in.
'It's a waste of time to try to reduce it to 1, it's not going to happen,' he warned. 'But maybe two possessions plus one? Whether that's 5 or 7? There may be some changes we could make, like in lacrosse where they changed it from 10 to 7.'
MIAA liaison
Peter Smith
explained that the numbers have been crunched with MOV set at 5 and 7, noting that switching to an MOV of 7 would have resulted in the same boys' basketball teams making the tournament in all five divisions, although their seedings would have shifted. On the girls' side, two teams would have moved into the playoff brackets, with two teams moving out across five divisions.
'I've seen [the data] at 5 and 7 and there's very little change,' Newhall said, also noting that running the data with a small boost for wins also produced negligible changes.
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The committee decided to review data of every possible MOV between 1 and 10 before reconvening in the fall to craft a proposal for the TMC.
Last fall, the committee voted unanimously for neutral sites in the Round of 8, but were denied by the TMC. But after hockey's quarterfinals were moved to neutral sites, there was hope on the basketball committee that the TMC would reconsider.
'I'm optimistic it could change,' said Newhall. 'It's on the [TMC] docket.'
For those data-lovers out there: The 2024-25 MIAA basketball season featured 6,993 regular-season games, followed by 417 tournament games. On the boys' side, 58.4 percent of teams qualified for the tournament, while 62 percent of the girls' teams reached the playoffs.
7. College corner
Medfield graduate
Jack Goodman
, a junior shortstop at Northeastern, was named All-Coastal Athletic Association for a second straight season, earning a spot on the first team with a .333 average, 10 homers, and 49 RBIs.
Three position players earned First Team honors - Cam Maldonado and Jack Goodman each join Harry on the All-CAA First Team, both earning All-Conference honors for the second time in their careers! 🎉
— Northeastern Baseball (@GoNUbaseball)
Joining Goodman on the All-CAA First Team were a trio of Northeastern pitchers from the Bay State:
Aiven Cabral
, a St. Mary's graduate,
Will Jones
, a Hamilton-Wenham graduate, and
Charlie Walker
, a Milton graduate.
Cabral, a junior righthander, went 10-2 with a 2.45 ERA and 69 strikeouts in 80⅔ innings. Jones, a lefthanded gradate student, went 10-0 with a 1.99 ERA and 69 strikeouts in 63⅓ innings. Cabral and Jones tied the Northeastern program record for single-season wins. Walker, a junior righty, was 3-0 with a 1.27 ERA and 49 strikeouts in 42⅔ innings.
Jordan Gottesmann
, a lefthanded graduate student from Acton-Boxborough, was named to the All-CAA second team and senior
Brett Dunham
, a North Andover graduate, was an honorable mention.
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Bryant third baseman
Pat D'Amico
, a St. John's Prep graduate from Lynnfield who previously played at Holy Cross, was named to the All-America second team after hitting .247 with eight homers and 39 RBIs in 43 games. He made just two errors in the field for a .961 fielding percentage.
Congrats to Charlie Saul, Pat D'Amico and Gavin Noriega on earning Second Team All-America East honors!
— Bryant Baseball (@_BryantBaseball)
Bryant's
Kyle Rizy
, a Worcester Academy graduate from Fiskdale, was also named to the All-America second team as a reliever after posting a 7-0 record, 3.53 ERA, and 39 strikeouts in 35⅔ innings.
UMass Dartmouth senior
Connor Richard
, a Plymouth North graduate, was named to the 2025 USTFCCCA All-Region Team for the fourth time after winning a Little East title in the javelin.
Corsairs freshmen
Ancil Alexander
, a Taunton High graduate, and
Sean Patrone
, a Wilmington graduate, were named to the All-Region team for the first time after Alexander was a Division 3 New England champion in the discus and shot put and Patrone won a Little East championship in the high jump.
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