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With a big rally at first doubles, Lexington girls' tennis squeaks past Newton South and into Division 1 final
'It was just about our mindset,' Eamranond said. 'We had to just play more aggressively and just play more offensively. We were playing very tentatively at first, definitely some nerves were kicking in.' Related : Senior Kiki Reddy came off the court first for Lexington with a dominant 6-2, 6-0, triumph at third singles, and sophomore Adhiti Hariram added a 6-3, 6-2, victory at second singles. Get Starting Point A guide through the most important stories of the morning, delivered Monday through Friday. Enter Email Sign Up The win earns Lexington a spot in the Division 1 title game on Saturday at MIT, where they will face either No. 4 Wellesley or No. 8 Winchester. Advertisement 'We have a lot of seniors on our team, and the thought of it being my last year on the team and this being possibly our last game, it motivates us,' Choi said. Division 2 State Longmeadow 3, Hingham 2 — Ellen Kennedy and Nora McMahon (6-2, 7-5) secured the deciding victory at first doubles to lead the top-ranked Lancers (23-0) to a semifinal victory at St. John's (Shrewsbury). Sarah Tiru (6-4, 6-2) and Bailey Downes (6-2, 6-1) also surged to dominant wins at first and second singles, respectively. The win sends Longmeadow back to the Division 2 championship game on Saturday at MIT, where they will face No. 2 Wayland. Advertisement Wayland 4, Notre Dame (Hingham) 1 — After trailing 5-0 in the opening set, Olivia Todd stormed back to claim a 7-5, 6-1 victory at third singles en route to a dominant semifinal win for the second-seeded Warriors (11-5) at Stoughton High. Senior Bella Camacho (first singles) and freshman Elena Tan (second singles) also earned straight-set wins. The victory sends the Warriors to the title game on Saturday at MIT, where they will face top-seeded Longmeadow. Division 3 State Martha's Vineyard 3, St. John Paul II 2 — In a hard-fought clash at first singles between Vineyarders sophomore Laina Dubin and JPII senior Lily Walker, Dubin emerged victorious with a 6-4, 6-3, triumph to earn the deciding point for third-seeded Martha's Vineyard (19-1) in a semifinal meeting of Cape & Islands foes at Somerset Berkley High. The Vineyarders' other points came from sophomores Leah Thomson and Zoe Treitman (6-4, 7-5) at first doubles and seniors Ella Moran and Clementine Zeender (6-1, 6-3) at second doubles. The win sends Martha's Vineyard to the state final Saturday at MIT, where it will face the winner of No. 1 Dover-Sherborn and No. 21 Bishop Fenwick. Division 4 state Manchester Essex 3, Bromfield 2 — When the moment got big, Grace Scarborough thought small. With the match tied, 2-2, and only Scarborough's No. 3 singles match remaining, there couldn't have been more pressure on the Manchester Essex senior to send her sixth-ranked Hornets to the championship. Caught in a three-set, three-hour semifinal epic with her Bromfield School opponent, no point came easy. Advertisement Her Manchester Essex teammates help pick up No. 3 singles player Grace Scarborough after her epic three-hour win to send the Hornets to the state championship. Evan Walsh Scarborough went ahead in the season-defining third set, 5-2, but fell back to 5-all. She had three match points in the tiebreak and lost them all. But even without the bounces going her way she earned the victory (5-7, 6-3, 7-6 (6)) and sent her team past No. 2 Bromfield to MIT's duPont courts for a shot at the state title. 'I say that I have the mind of a goldfish. I just try to let points that I lose go,' said Scarborough. 'I just try to move on, because I've learned that if I take things personally, things go south. I try to stay calm, and I just try to get it over – that's what my dad says to me.' 'This is the fourth or fifth time she's been in a big match that's come down to the third set,' said Manchester Essex head coach Barrett Alston. 'She's come through every time, and it was no different today under as much pressure as you're going to find.' Manchester Essex's Sarah Cort won at No. 2 singles (6-1, 6-1), while Nina Zalosh and Libby Lawler scored another point for the Hornets, winning their No. 1 doubles match (6-3, 7-6 (2)). Hamilton-Wenham 3, Lynnfield 2 — The fourth-seeded Generals (17-2) took control of the match early, but had to battle to hold on and upset top-seeded Lynnfield (18-3) in the semifinals at St. John's Prep in Danvers. H-W got early wins from Naomi Provost at first singles (6-4, 6-2) and Emily McIntosh at second singles (6-1, 7-5), but Charlotte Ireland lost a tough tiebreaker to lose at No. 3 singles. After a loss at second doubles, it all came to first doubles, where Olivia Romans and Evelyn Esdaile jumped out to a 6-1 first-set lead, but then dropped the second set 7-5 before rallying to win a third-set tiebreak 7-6 (5). Romans finished off the win with two vicious backhands, followed by an aggressive backhand volley at the net to clinch a spot in the state final for the Generals. 'I can't say enough about this group of girls, all of them, not just the starters but the whole team,' said coach Joe Maher. 'They stick together and support each other and work hard to make each other better. I am so proud of the way we competed today. Lynnfield is a talented and well-coached team and we had to play at a new level to beat them.' Advertisement Boys' tennis Division 3 State Weston 5, Martha's Vineyard 0 — From the moment Peter Chen (6-3, 6-1) won at first singles, the sixth-seeded Wildcats (7-7) didn't look back, upsetting the second-seeded Vineyarders (15-2) with a semifinal sweep. 'Our number one never loses so that makes it easy,' said head coach George Conlin. 'That puts pressure on everyone else like, 'Hey, look what I'm doing.'' Winston Starett (6-1, 6-3) won at second singles and Jacob Wu (7-6 (5), 6-4) won at third singles. 'We're the 'smashing seven'. We have no replacements. It makes it easier and harder because you have nobody to replace anybody, but at the same time, everybody knows how to communicate with everybody,' said Conlin. Nate Ko and Siyang Ding (6-3, 6-2) won at first doubles and Sammy Reggelman and Ben Rosenthal (2-6,6-0,6-4) were victorious at second singles. Conlin said that his team is going into the championship game with the same mindset they've had all year, 'Let's get all the way to the finals and let's play better than we did the first time we played.' Weston now awaits the winner of top-seeded Bedford (11-4) and 13th-seeded Latin Academy (12-6). Advertisement Evan Walsh reported from Shrewsbury and Chloe Wojtanik contributed. Matty Wasserman can be reached at
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02-05-2025
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Eastern Mass. baseball: Globe Players of the Week for April 23-30
Related : Evan Luekens and Sam Luekens , Newburyport — On Tuesday, Evan, a senior, threw a complete game and struck out 10 in a 5-2 Cape Ann Kinney triumph over Manchester Essex. Younger brother Sam, a freshman, fanned 12 in a 3-2 victory over Lynn English on Thursday. Advertisement Brian Mancinelli , St. John Paul II — In a whopping, 30-0, defeat of Sturgis West on Monday, the Navy-bound junior righthander drove in 10 runs with four hits and scored four times. Paul McCarthy , Xaverian — The senior righthanded pitcher and first/third baseman served up a nine-strikeout, three-hit outing for the No. 1 Hawks (11-2) in a Catholic Conference takedown of No. 4 BC High. Will Novak , Plymouth North — Prior to Plymouth North's 6-2 win over Newton South on Wednesday, the senior outfielder was batting .800 across a three-game span with two triples, six RBIs, eight hits, and an OPS of 2.033, leading the No. 3 Eagles (10-1) in all five categories. Senior Captain Will Novak on a mission the last 3 games for the Plymouth North Eagles — Connor Pratt (@PintSizePratt) Advertisement
