Upper Cape softball have been crowned as this season’s Mayflower League champions.

After beating Old Colony 20-4 on Friday, the Rams (13-5) finished their league schedule with an 8-1 record.

Taysia Lopes led the offense with two triples and four RBIs. Rosie Neville had a pair of hits and RBIs, while Jaelynn Harraden had a big base hit scoring two runs. Patience at the plate was key as the Rams walked home several runs in the first inning of action.

Defensively, the Rams were solid. Lopes had five strikeouts and the infield play of Lucy Pesta and Amya Irving shut Old Colony down, as did the outfield tandem of Jaelynn Harraden and Rosalie Neville. 

In other high school sports action:

Softball 

Falmouth 8, Dennis-Yarmouth 1: The Clippers (9-7), who won their third straight game to lock up a postseason berth, handed the Dolphins (5-10) their fourth straight defeat.

Ellie Bennett gave up just three hits and struck out eight on the mound for Falmouth. Christina Femino (one run and two RBIs) and Natasha Bradshaw (two runs and one RBI) both had two hits. Kaylee Shaw (one double), Ellie Bennett (one double), Tenley Briggs, Azaria Viall and Rachel Perry all recorded a hit.

Barnstable 5, Nauset 4: The Red Hawks (4-13) won in dramatic fashion on Senior Night with senior Juju Nardone (1-for 4, one walk, one single, one run and one RBI) delivering the walk-off hit in the bottom of the seventh inning.

The Warriors (6-11) led 3-0 in the fifth inning before the Red Hawks pulled within two runs an inning later. The deficit extended back to three runs by the sixth inning, but the Red Hawks tied the game in the bottom half.

Maddie Flynn, who struck out 11 batters, gave up two walks and allowed three earned runs, pitched out of a jam in the top of the seventh to strand two runners on base. The Red Hawks then loaded the bases before Nardone hit a 3-2 pitch into center field to secure the win.

All four of the Red Hawks’ seniors (Nardone, Sara Ormston, Madyn Field and Victoria Dos Santos) reached base.

Bella DiGiacomo drew three walks and scored twice. Ormston was 1-for-3 with a single and a walk drawn. Flynn scored a run.

Rising Tide 8, Nantucket 5: The Whalers (5-10) couldn’t build upon Wednesday’s win over Barnstable.

Norfolk Aggie 27, Cape Tech 4: The Crusaders (1-10) fell to a 10th consecutive defeat.

Baseball

Falmouth 7, Dennis-Yarmouth 0: The Clippers (12-5) clinched the Cape and Islands League title with a 7-1 record.

Josh Matta pitched a complete game shutout, scattered three hits, walked two and struck out 12. Jack Frostholm hit a two run home run to deep center in the first inning after Tre’Chaun Days’ lead off single set it up. Trey Cardoza had a huge two-RBI single in the fourth to give the Clippers a 4-0 lead. Max Inman and Eathen Vecchione chipped in with a hit and a RBI each, and Brody Palmer also had a big double and a run scored.

Nauset 5, Barnstable 4: The Warriors (3-14) capped off Senior Night by ending a two-game losing streak. The win was highlighted by James Breda hitting a pair of solo home runs and catcher Paul Alves throwing out two runners trying to steal second base to preserve a 5-3 lead in the sixth inning.

The Red Hawks (4-13) have lost back-to-back games. Eric Stanley went 3-for-4 with a triple, a RBI, three stolen bases and three runs scored. Braedon Costello went 2-for-4 with two stolen bases. Max Clark pitched great in relief, going 4 2/3 innings, while allowing just one hit and no runs.

Cape Tech 17, Norfolk Aggie 1: The Crusaders (6-8) are right back in the win column behind Mike Shea (three innings, zero hits, five strikeouts and one unearned run) and Nick Valiga (two innings and three strikeouts), who combined for a no-hitter.

Nolan Baker went 3-for-3 with three runs scored and five RBIs. George Meca was 2-for-4 with a pair of RBIs, and Josh Cohan went 3-for-4 with a trio of runs scored and four RBIs. Brayden Wright (three RBIs) and Mason Tomilson (three RBIs) both went 2-for-3. Conor Gent was 3-for-3 with a walk, two runs scored and two RBIs.

Nantucket 11, Rising Tide 1: The Whalers (6-9) halted a two-game skid with a strong win.

Old Colony 2, Upper Cape 1 (8 inn.): The Rams (12-4) lost a pitchers’ duel, which ended their six-game win streak. Devyn Shultze pitched a no hitter for five innings and also had a double. Nolan Roche added a double and scored the Rams’ lone run. Logan Ewell, Jared Coates and Patrick Acord each had a hit.

Boys Lacrosse 

Falmouth 8, Martha’s Vineyard 6: The Clippers (12-4) clinched a share of the Cape and Islands Atlantic Division crown after they matched Nauset’s 7-1 record in league play with a win over the Vineyarders (5-10), who finished 0-8 against the division.

Barnstable 16, Mashpee 9: The Red Hawks (8-8) stopped a two-game losing streak with a non-league win over the Falcons (7-9), which extended their run to three straight defeats.

Girls Lacrosse

Dennis-Yarmouth 19, Cape Tech 9: The Dolphins (10-6) won their fourth straight game behind eight goals and three assists from Kourtney David. Carolyn O’Keefe tallied three goals and an assist, while Jenna Richard added four goals and an assist. Lizzy Mendiola and Nadia Cerqueira both scored, and Mia Medeiros added two goals. Mya Cerqueira made eight saves. 

The Crusadetrs (1-9) were unable to add to their tally after picking up their first win of the season earlier in the week.

Nantucket 8, Monomoy 4: Fresh off clinching a share of the Cape and Islands Atlantic Division title in a three-way tie, the Whalers (10-4) battled to a third straight win. Mayson Lower led the way with two goals and three assists. Louisa Beni (one assist) and Dylan Damian both scored twice. Suz Peraner (one assist) and Maddie Lombardi each added a goal, and Mia Beaudette had two assists. Ella Douglas made five saves.

The Sharks (11-4) saw their two-game win streak end as they finished the week with a 2-1 record across three games. Tessa Grodzicki scored a trio of goals and Paige Nash added a goal and an assist to break 150-career points. Abrielle Long added an assist. Gaby Basset had two assists. Morgan Willis made 14 saves in goal.

Boys Tennis 

Sandwich 4, Randolph 1: The Blue Knights (11-6) emerged victorious from a 10-game superset match against Randolph.

Andrew Emmel defeated Josh Ching in first singles (10-0) and Kallen Kestenbaum defeated Louis Le in third singles (10-3). Liam McLaughlin and Finn Welden defeated Tomson Nguyon and Christian Nguyon in first doubles (10-7) and Colin MacQuade and Andrew Morrison-Sheppard defeated Azlan Hussain and Vincent Huyuh in second doubles (10-0).

Martha’s Vineyard 3, Falmouth 2: The Vineyarders (14-1) made an immediate bounce back after they narrowly beat the Clippers (13-3), which ended their six match win streak.

Monomoy 5, Barnstable 0: The Sharks (14-3) added a third straight win to their haul after they swept the season series with the Red Hawks (1-15).

Roman Pavluchenko defeated Dean Cordeiro in first singles (6-4, 6-0), Ryan Casey defeated Harry Baroni in second singles (6-0, 6-0), and Zach Shields defeated Seymour Singh in third singles (6-2, 7-5).

Nick Hadden and Blake Noonan defeated Kaleb Jones and Chase King in first doubles (6-1, 6-3), while Ethan Seufert and Thomas Hereford won by forfeit in second doubles.

Nauset 5, Dennis-Yarmouth 0: The Warriors (5-10) ended a four-game slide with their third sweep of the season, and they also swept the season series with the Dolphins (5-11) in the process.

Lucas Wilson-Bevington beat Landon Richter in first singles (6-4, 6-2), Will Murphy defeated Collin Caron in second singles (6-4, 2-6, 10-7), and Lucas Patton defeated Michael O’Reilly in third singles (6-2, 6-2).

Wyatt Carroll and Ronan O’Brien defeated Aidan Karras and Ryan Clarke in first doubles  (6-3, 6-2), and Soren Jones-Carlson and Asher Woods defeated Matt Anderson and Ben Soltis in second doubles (6-0, 6-1).

Fairhaven 4, Nantucket 1: The Whalers (4-9) fell to a third defeat in their last five games with a season finale against undefeated Cape Cod Academy left on the schedule.

Girls Tennis 

Martha’s Vineyard 3, Falmouth 2: The Vineyarders (14-0) were pushed by the Clippers (7-8) to the fifth match on court for a second straight meeting to maintain their undefeated season. They clinched the Cape and Islands Atlantic Division championship with a 10-0 record. Zoe Treitman and Leah Thomson at first doubles won the deciding point.

Sandwich 3, Randolph 2: The Blue Knights (7-9) curbed a three-game slide behind a pair of wins that went the distance in three sets in a league win that improved that record to 7-5.

Senja Kravitz defeated Linda Thea via forfeit in first singles, while Tenley Rothera defeated Michelle Phan (6-7 (4-7), 6-1, 6-3) in third singles. Izzie Bar and Maylin Alty defeated Kelsey Vo and Shaylan Phan in second doubles (6-3, 0-6, 6-2).

Monomoy 5, Barnstable 0: The Sharks (12-4) collected a second straight win in a sweep of the Red Hawks (1-13), and a fourth in their last five matches.

Hanadi Rezk defeated Sophie Davis in first singles (6-0, 6-0), Ella Cutter defeated Sophia Tymechyehyn in second singles (6-0, 6-0), Darcy Addison defeated Lily Case in third singles (6-0, 6-1).

Karina Khalsa and Madison Mahfouz defeated Kate Condinho and Ava Gregory in first doubles (6-4, 7-6 (5)), and Alexa Babes-Deel and Lauren Da Selva defeated Dame Edwenda and Emily Winfield in second doubles (6-4, 6-1).

Nauset 5, Dennis-Yarmouth 0: The Warriors (8-7) made an immediate return to the win column as they downed the Dolphins (1-14) via a sweep.

Anjali O’Brien defeated Tristin Bradford in first singles (6-0, 6-2), Sophia Volteler defeated Lia Marie Adames De Jesus in second singles (7-5, 7-5), and Haley Jackson defeated Maddy Stewart in third singles (3-6, 6-1, 10-3).

Faye Adams and Chloe Hand defeated Kelsang Gurung and Maddy Burgess in first doubles (6-3, 6-4), and Elexa Malouin and Morgan Johnson defeated Aimee Teague and Willasia Thompson in second doubles. (6-1, 6-1).

Allen Gunn covers high school sports for the Cape Cod Times. You can contact him at agunn@gannett.com and follow him on X at @allentgunn.

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WHEELING — A pair of Wheeling natives who went on to hall-of-fame athletic careers elsewhere will be among the latest to be inducted into the Wheeling Hall of Fame.

Champion golfer Scott Davis and late professional basketball player Richard “Dick” Mehen will be part of the 12-person Class of 2025. The two are being inducted under the category of sports and athletics.

The 2025 induction ceremony will take place at 6 p.m. Saturday, June 28, at WesBanco Arena. Tickets are $45 and can be purchased online at WesBancoArena.com or by calling the arena box office at 304-233-7000, Monday through Friday from 9 a.m.-4 p.m. The last day to buy tickets is June 25.

Scott Davis

Born May 6, 1956, in Wheeling, Davis dedicated his entire career to growing the game of golf in West Virginia. After graduating from Triadelphia High School — where he was a three-sport athlete in football, basketball, and golf — he was recruited to play golf at Marshall University by coach Joe Feaganes.

It was in Huntington where his career took off.

At Marshall, Davis met his mentor Harold Payne and played as a sophomore on the 1976 NCAA Tournament team while not a member of a Division I conference. The Thundering Herd finished 17th in team standings, and Davis won the NCAA Long Drive title in Albuquerque, New Mexico As a junior, he helped the Herd win the Marshall Invitational.

As a senior, he was the individual medalist in the Marshall Invitational, leading the Thundering Herd in stroke average and receiving All-Southern Conference honors in 1978.

Later that year, Davis won the West Virginia Amateur championship, recording a round of 64 to tie the all-time tournament record. He birdied six of the first 11 holes on the Old White course at The Greenbrier Resort.

After graduating from Marshall, Davis worked as an assistant golf professional under Karen Murphy at Speidel Golf Club in Wheeling, where he directed the Wheeling Junior Golf Association. A love of working with the junior golfers sparked Davis’ career.

Now a Hurricane resident, Davis has been a Professional Golf Association of America and West Virginia PGA Golf Professional for four decades. The majority of his time was spent in the Tri-State PGA Section as Head Golf Professional at Scarlett Oaks Country Club and Edgewood Country Club in southern West Virginia. In 2004, he received the PGA of America Bill Strasbaugh Award in the Tri-State Section. This award represents Davis’ career, his dedicated involvement in charitable and community activities as well as his mentoring of PGA Golf Professionals.

As a competitor, he won West Virginia Open championships in 1982, 1990, 1995, and 1998. He also was a four-time Low Senior at the Open, the 10-time West Virginia PGA Player of the Year, four-time Senior West Virginia PGA Player of the Year, Tri-State PGA champion, Tri-State Tour Championship champion, and Tri-State Match Play champion, and has competed in 18 National Club Professional Championships and six Majors Championships.

Inducted into the Marshall University Sports Hall of Fame in 2004, he also was enshrined in the West Virginia Golf Hall of Fame in 2017. The state honor cited him in this way, “Scott Davis is a trained instructor, a golf mentor, an accomplished player, a tournament director, event planner, club fitter, and merchandiser, but most importantly: A friend to the game.”

Richard “Dick” Mehen

Mehen and his older brother Bernie Mehen, who was inducted into the Wheeling Hall of Fame in 1992, probably are the most acclaimed brother athletes from Wheeling. Dick Mehen was born in Wheeling on May 20, 1922, and both brothers earned basketball fame at Wheeling High School, the University of Tennessee, and in the early era of professional basketball.

Dick and Bernie became the first two West Virginia high school basketball players to earn all-class, first-team All-State honors three times. Dick graduated from Wheeling High in 1940, two years after Bernie. Dick was a 6-foot-5, 195-pound Wildcat center who was honored as All-State captain as a senior when the Wildcats posted a 23-1 record and won the school’s second state title in three years. In 1938, with both Dick and Bernie in the starting lineup, the Wildcats went 24-0 and won a state title for coach Everett Brinkman, a Hall of Fame honoree for the city, Ohio Valley Athletic Conference, West Virginia, and the Upper Ohio Valley Dapper Dans.

The Wildcats were 64-3 in the three years Dick was a standout. As a senior, he scored 556 points to lead the Ohio Valley – and likely the state – in that low-scoring era. He ended his prep career with more than 1,300 points, a rare total for that period. He also competed as a high jumper for the Wildcat track and field team.

Dick joined Bernie at the University of Tennessee and twice earned All-Southeastern Conference first-team honors in 1942-43. He was a second team All-American in 1942. His career was interrupted by U.S. Air Force service, in 1944-45 during World War II, but he managed to finish school in 1947.

He then played five seasons of pro basketball as a power forward/center, starting with the Toledo Jeeps of the National Basketball League (coached by Wheeling Hall of Famer Jule Rivlin) in 1948. Dick Mehen played with the Waterloo Hawks two years (one in NBL, one in NBA) before playing with three NBA teams in 1950-51 – the Baltimore Bullets, Boston Celtics and Fort Wayne Pistons.

He ended his pro career in 1952 with the Milwaukee Hawks. He earned All-NBL 1st Team honors in 1949. His pro career totals for 193 games were 2,067 points, 505 rebounds, and 480 assists.

Mehen was inducted into the OVAC Hall of Fame, Legends category, and the University of Tennessee Athletic Hall of Fame. He passed away on December 14, 1986, in North Olmsted, Ohio.

ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) – Parents across Georgia are expressing concern over proposed federal spending cuts that could impact programs supporting more than a million children statewide.

Lawmakers in Washington are currently debating reductions to key federal initiatives, including the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), and Medicaid. These programs provide essential food, health care and early education support for families in need.

A new report from Emory University’s School of Medicine called “The State of Child Health and Well-being” underscores what many parents have been saying for years — they need more help, not less.

“It is a temperature check,” said Dr. Stephen Patrick, the lead researcher behind the study. “Behind every data point is a child and a story.”

The findings are stark: food insecurity affects 36% of Georgia families, more than double the national average of 17.9%. Meanwhile, 91% of parents surveyed support providing free school meals for all children, a proposal that has repeatedly failed to pass in the Georgia legislature.

Despite widespread parental support for such programs, the latest federal budget proposal — commonly referred to as “the big bill” — includes billions of dollars in cuts from Medicaid and SNAP.

“Everybody benefits when the children are well,” said Adriene Pinkney, a Georgia mother.

The Emory report also raises red flags about children’s access to health care. Roughly 41% of Georgia children are enrolled in Medicaid, one of the country’s largest safety net programs. But Patrick notes that coverage does not always equate to access.

“We asked parents: if your child has a mental health diagnosis, are they receiving treatment? Most were not,” he said. “They need insurance, but they also need access to the services that help.”

Researchers hope the report will guide policymakers toward decisions that better reflect the needs and concerns of Georgia families.

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