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Pittsburg quarterback Marley Alcantara looks to pass against San Ramon Valley during the North Coast Section Division I championship game on Nov. 29, 2024, at Diablo Valley College in Pleasant Hill. (Jose Carlos Fajardo/Bay Area News Group) Pittsburg star Marley Alcantara receives top honor. San Ramon Valley, Wilcox, Amador Valley, St. Ignatius standouts also recognized. […]

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Pittsburg quarterback Marley Alcantara looks to pass against San Ramon Valley during the North Coast Section Division I championship game on Nov. 29, 2024, at Diablo Valley College in Pleasant Hill. (Jose Carlos Fajardo/Bay Area News Group)
Pittsburg quarterback Marley Alcantara looks to pass against San Ramon Valley during the North Coast Section Division I championship game on Nov. 29, 2024, at Diablo Valley College in Pleasant Hill. (Jose Carlos Fajardo/Bay Area News Group)

Pittsburg star Marley Alcantara receives top honor. San Ramon Valley, Wilcox, Amador Valley, St. Ignatius standouts also recognized.

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CANNES, France — Much of the cinema world has descended on the Cannes Film Festival as the French Riviera extravaganza holds its 78th edition. This gallery features daily highlights from the festival curated by Associated Press photo editors. This is a photo gallery curated by AP photo editors. 0

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CANNES, France — Much of the cinema world has descended on the Cannes Film Festival as the French Riviera extravaganza holds its 78th edition.

This gallery features daily highlights from the festival curated by Associated Press photo editors.

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

Winchester first baseman Brett Daniels checks Lawrence runner Michael Caba during Thursday’s nonleague 7-6 win for the visiting Red & Black.Danielle Parhizkaran/Globe Staff We may have done this schtick before, but Wednesday was brought to you by the number 100, with no less than nine milestones involving the century mark being recorded. We also sat […]

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Winchester first baseman Brett Daniels checks Lawrence runner Michael Caba during Thursday’s nonleague 7-6 win for the visiting Red & Black.Danielle Parhizkaran/Globe Staff

We may have done this schtick before, but Wednesday was brought to you by the number 100, with no less than nine milestones involving the century mark being recorded.

We also sat in on the MIAA basketball committee meeting, which focused on proposals to reduce the margin of victory cap of 10 points, and have plenty of collegiate baseball and track honors to sort through.

But, as always, we start with the roundups: Scoreboard | Baseball | Softball | Boys’ lacrosse | Girls’ lacrosse | Girls’ tennis | Boys’ tennis | Boys’ volleyball

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.

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.

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.

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).

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.

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, Medway’s Alessandra Cautilli, King Philip’s Liv Petrillo, Taunton’s Aniyah Bailey, Reading’s Ava Kiley and Arianna Olivardia, 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

McCoy Walsh, King Philip, 19

Jolee Anderson, Wareham, 14

Alyx Rossi, Bedford, 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

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.”

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.”

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.


Brendan Kurie can be reached at brendan.kurie@globe.com. Follow him on X @BrendanKurie.

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PEORIA (25News Now) -Top times tonight earned dozens of Central Illinois track athletes a trip to the state finals next for the IHSA Boys Track Finals. Peoria Notre Dame, Normal West and Normal Community all earned big shoutout soccer wins. Plus, plenty of softball and baseball highlights. You can watch 25News – any newscast, anywhere […]

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PEORIA (25News Now) -Top times tonight earned dozens of Central Illinois track athletes a trip to the state finals next for the IHSA Boys Track Finals. Peoria Notre Dame, Normal West and Normal Community all earned big shoutout soccer wins. Plus, plenty of softball and baseball highlights.

You can watch 25News – any newscast, anywhere – streaming LIVE on 25NewsNow.com, our 25News mobile app, and on our WEEK 25News SmartTV streaming app. Learn more about how you can get connected to 25News streaming live news here.

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Preps roundup

From staff reports Roundup of Wednesday’s state soccer and district track and field tournament action. Boys soccer Auburn Mountainview 3, Ridgeline 1: Freshman Gabe Eiser scored in the 74th minute, but the visiting 18th-seeded Falcons (11-8) were eliminated by the 15th-seeded Lions (16-3-3) in a State 3A opening-round game. Ridgeline goalkeeper Brady McMahon made eight […]

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Roundup of Wednesday’s state soccer and district track and field tournament action.

Boys soccer

Auburn Mountainview 3, Ridgeline 1: Freshman Gabe Eiser scored in the 74th minute, but the visiting 18th-seeded Falcons (11-8) were eliminated by the 15th-seeded Lions (16-3-3) in a State 3A opening-round game.

Ridgeline goalkeeper Brady McMahon made eight saves.

Track and field District 6 2A

At West Valley HS. Hayden Anderson (East Valley) won the 100-meter hurdles in 15.72 seconds and the 300 hurdles in 46.02, both PRs. Anderson was also the lead-off runner on the winning 4×100 and 4×400 relay teams.

EV’s Talan Hughes won the 100 with a PR of 10.93, 110 hurdles (PR of 14.52) and the 300 hurdles (38.19).

WV’s Hadassah Duff won the 1,600 in 5:22.96 and the 3,200 in a PR of 11:53.66.

Pullman’s Chris Druffel and Luke Genz finished first and second in the pole vault at 13 feet, 2 inches, a PR for both.

Pullman’s Maile Sandberg won the girls pole vault at 10-3.

Kiera Smith of Rogers won the 100 (12.86) and took third place in the 200 (26.08). She was also part of the first-place 4×200 relay team and second-place 4×100 relay team.

Deer Park’s Mattison Wainwright had a PR of 5-2 to win the high jump and threw the javelin 90-6 for sixth.

Clarkston’s Milo Kunnap won the long jump with a PR of 21-31/2. Kunnap was the lead-off runner in the second-place 4×100 relay. He also took third in the 200 (22.68) and sixth in the 100 (11.47). Teammate Ryken Craber won the triple jump with a PR of 43-31/2 and took second place at 20-10 in the long jump.

District 6 1A

At Colville HS. Lakeside’s Jeff Winger won the javelin with a PR of 198-7. Winger took third in the 100 in 11.27 and he was the lead-off runner in the winning 4×100 relay.

Colville’s Isaiah Ortiz won the triple jump with a PR of 42-4.

Garrett Montney and Dakotah Phillips of Medical Lake finished first and second in the pole vault at 13-0.

Riverside’s Athena Jones won the shot put with a PR of 37-1/4. Jones was also the anchor on the second-place 4×100 relay team.

District 6 1B

At Valley Christian HS. Westin Madden of Valley Christian won the boys 1,600 in 4:27.05. Teammate Joseph Steinbach won the discus at 154-10.

Brady Roberts of Almira/Coulee-Hartline won the triple jump with a PR of 42-11/2. Brody Fleming of St. John-Endicott-LaCrosse won the javelin at 156-9.

Valley Christian’s Melissa Wagner won the 1,600 with a PR of 5:30.55.

Odessa’s Lily Starkel won the high jump at 5-0 and placed sixth in the long jump (15-41/2). Kyra Brantner of Garfield-Palouse won the long jump at 17-21/2.

Chloe Waddell of St. John-Endicott won the shot put at 33-111/4.

Oakesdale won the 4×200 in 1:52.88.

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Highland Park highlights 'Folk Dance Day'

Fourth-graders Sariah, Reagan and Carolina couldn’t stop talking about how much they loved to dance during their music class. All three students attend Highland Park Elementary in Stillwater and participated in the school’s Folk Dance Day Tuesday, where about 500 students took turns throughout the day practicing folk dances from around the world. × This […]

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Fourth-graders Sariah, Reagan and Carolina couldn’t stop talking about how much they loved to dance during their music class.

All three students attend Highland Park Elementary in Stillwater and participated in the school’s Folk Dance Day Tuesday, where about 500 students took turns throughout the day practicing folk dances from around the world.

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State Education Report For 2023

Credit: Plutmaverick / Shutterstock According to a report released on May 7 by the Connecticut Department of Education, there are many accomplishments for the state to celebrate, including decreased rates of chronic absenteeism and the fact that more high school juniors and seniors than ever are taking college and career readiness courses. The report also […]

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According to a report released on May 7 by the Connecticut Department of Education, there are many accomplishments for the state to celebrate, including decreased rates of chronic absenteeism and the fact that more high school juniors and seniors than ever are taking college and career readiness courses.

The report also points to some areas where the state needs to improve, including performance in English Language Arts (ELA) and the rate of college completion in six years or fewer, which has been in a steady decline over the past five years, according to the report.

Total enrollment had been hovering around 513,000 students since 2020-21, but in the 2024-25 school year it declined to 508,402, primarily due to a new requirement that children have to be 5 years old as of Sept. 1 to enter kindergarten in that year. 

Enrollment in adult education increased 20.8 percent from 2022-23 to 2023-24, the third consecutive year of growth over 20 percent, “surpassing pre-pandemic enrollment numbers for the first time since 2020-21,” the report states.

Decrease in Chronic Absenteeism 

According to the state’s website, chronic absence from learning is defined as missing at least 10 percent of the total number of dates enrolled during the school year. “Just two days per month can lead to chronic absence. It includes both excused, unexcused, and out-of-school suspensions,” the website states. 

The recently issued report notes that the chronic absenteeism rate was 20 percent for 2022-23 and down to 17.7 percent in 2023-24, decreasing the most for Hispanic/Latino, American Indian/Alaskan Native, and multiracial students.

The report did point out that “chronic absenteeism rates for all student groups remain significantly higher than their pre-pandemic levels.”

The Department of Education’s School Is Better with You campaign was created to help raise awareness of the importance of attending school. When the program was announced in late 2023, officials reported that more than 5,400 parents and caregivers outlined several factors that impact attendance, including mental health issues and chronic illness.

The report refers to the School is Better with You campaign and various other programs that help to provide mental health services and enrichment opportunities in the summer, making resources available for students who are experiencing homelessness and housing instability. 

Juniors and Seniors Taking College and Career Readiness Courses

The report states that more than 90 percent of 11th- and 12th-grade students are taking courses to prepare them for college and careers, which is the highest number ever. 

But while enrollment rates into colleges have gone up, the rate of students graduating from college in six years or fewer has decreased, the report states.  

Regarding the college enrollment rate increase to 68.4 percent for the class of 2023, the report notes that “these rates remain lower than pre-COVID levels, which were steady around 71 percent, but represent a pattern of recovery toward pre-COVID levels.” 

The rate of college graduation by six years after high school declined slightly, from 48.2 percent for the class of 2017 to 47.8 percent for the class of 2018, the fifth straight year of decline, according to the report. 

Through the Dual Credit Expansion Grant, the state has awarded $3.8 million to 89 school districts to assist students in getting college credits for courses they take in high school. 

Math and Science Scores Up; Mixed Results for ELA

Most student groups showed improvement in math and science, with overall achievement in these areas improving for the second consecutive year, according to the report, but there were mixed results in ELA.

A common theme for many grades is that they are trailing pre-pandemic levels of achievement across many categories. The report states that “across the grades, proficiency rates trail pre-pandemic levels by about five to seven percentage points in ELA, about two to five percentage points in mathematics, and about one to three percentage points in science.”


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