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Saturday's high school scores and highlights
ROUNDUP BOYS LACROSSE Cole Hogencamp scored eight goals and added an assist as Mansfield captured the Chowda Cup for the first time with a 16-9 win over Marshfield. In the third place game, Owen Quinn registered four goals as Scituate defeated Westwood, 14-11. Cooper Masso, Mikey Ferraro and Dexter Izzo each had four goals as […]
ROUNDUP
BOYS LACROSSE
Cole Hogencamp scored eight goals and added an assist as Mansfield captured the Chowda Cup for the first time with a 16-9 win over Marshfield. In the third place game, Owen Quinn registered four goals as Scituate defeated Westwood, 14-11.
Cooper Masso, Mikey Ferraro and Dexter Izzo each had four goals as Bishop Feehan defeated Franklin 14-6 in a nonleague contest. … Cole Rodgers scored four goals and teammates Reece MacKinnon and Tucker Carline added three as Sandwich defeated Whitman-Hanson, 14-1. … Chase Akstin tallied six goals and three assists as Central Catholic rolled to a 19-2 win over Cheverus (Maine). … Owen Packard tallied a hat trick, Pat Brown had two goals and three assists, and Colin Lasch and Cam McKenna added two goals and two assists each as Hingham topped Winchester, 13-9.
Colin Carfagna finished with four goals and one assist to lead Bridgewater-Raynham to a 8-6 victory over Lexington in the consolation game of the Battle Road Cup. In the championship tilt, Alex Fivek tallied six goals, while teammates Taylor Ladd and John Anderson each notched a hat trick as Concord-Carlisle defeated Natick, 15-9.
Jake Hiltz scored three goals and added an assist as Pingree defeated Dexter Southfield 9-7 in NEPSAC action.
GIRLS LACROSSE
Caroline Nozzolillo compiled six goals and two assists while Cece Thurmond added five tallies and an assist as Westwood defeated nonleague opponent Bishop Guertin 15-7. … Maddie Campbell scored four goals, Avery Regan added four, while Kate Greer distributed four assists as Cohasset (7-1) defeated Moses Brown, 14-11. … Lindsay Cain scored six goals as Concord-Carlisle defeated Longmeadow, 15-8. Teagan Morrissey, Karleigh Mutch and Scarlett Mirak all had hat tricks for the Patriots.
BASEBALL
In nonleague action, Jake Carr drove in a pair and scored once as Shawsheen (9-0) topped Wilmington 7-2. He also pitched six scoreless innings, allowing just three hits and fanning three to get the win.
SCORES
BASEBALL
Shawsheen 7, Wilmington 2
SPARTAN INVITATIONAL
Masconomet 2, Marblehead 0
BOYS LACROSSE
Bishop Feehan 14, Franklin 6
Central Catholic 19, Cheverus 2
Hingham 13, Winchester 9
Medfield 14, Wellesley 8
Nantucket 12, Groton-Dunstable 3
Noble and Greenough 14, Thayer Academy 12
Pingree 9, Dexter Southfield 7
Sandwich 14, Whitman-Hanson 1
St. Sebastian’s 16, Middlesex 8
Staples (CT) 12, St. John’s Prep 6
CHOWDA CUP
Champ: Mansfield 16, Marshfield 9
Third: Scituate 14, Westwood 11
Fifth: Norwell 7, Falmouth 5
Seventh: Cohasset 17, Hanover 6
PLAYERS CUP
Champ: BC High 10, Duxbury 6
Third: Acton-Boxboro 14, Walpole 12
Fifth: Reading 11, North Andover 8
Seventh: Xaverian 12, Needham 9
BATTLE ROAD TOURNEY
Cons: Bridgewater-Raynham 8, Lexington 6
Champ: Concord-Carlisle 15, Natick 9
GIRLS LACROSSE
Central Catholic 21, Weymouth 10
Cohasset 14, Moses Brown (RI) 11
Concord-Carlisle 15, Longmeadow 8
Nashoba 10, Bedford 8
Peabody 14, Billerica 7
Wayland 9, Belmont 8
Westwood 15, Bishop Guertin (NH) 7
GIRLS TENNIS
Berwick 3, Portsmouth Abbey 2
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Five takeaways from Thursday, as champions were crowned, coaches hired, TMC met, and …
For the first time in school history, Concord-Carlisle girls’ lacrosse was No. 1 in the state.Barry Chin/Globe Staff Championship weekend is upon us, with four teams getting a head-start on the celebrating Thursday night. Over at Babson College, Concord-Carlisle girls’ lacrosse claimed its first state championship in the Division 1 title game, and Norwell beat […]
Championship weekend is upon us, with four teams getting a head-start on the celebrating Thursday night.
Over at Babson College, Concord-Carlisle girls’ lacrosse claimed its first state championship in the Division 1 title game, and Norwell beat its old coach to capture the Division 4 belt, its first state title in seven years.
- The culmination for Concord-Carlisle girls’ lacrosse: history, and a Division 1 title to cherish
- Charlotte Pithie, Norwell girls’ lacrosse save the best for last to close out Cohasset in Division 4
- Re-live the action as it happened by revisiting Thursday’s live blog
And in Shrewsbury, top-seeded Agawam bounced back after dropping the second set to win the last two in commanding fashion against Wayland and secure its second Division 2 title in three seasons.
While not an MIAA sport, St. Mary’s captured the 2025 girls’ flag football title.
With the conclusion of the softball and tennis semifinals, every championship match is locked in, and with a shift in softball to put every game on Saturday, that means 23 champions will be crowned that day, weather permitting.
You can find out when every championship game is with our title tracker, and you can revisit every game from the last two rounds with our playoff guide.
The rest of Thursday’s coverage:
- Softball roundup: Addie Willett and Delaney Moquin send Silver Lake softball to Division 2 championship with clutch performances
- With renewed focus, Bella Gopen zeroed in on a singles win and a spot in the D1 final for Wellesley girls’ tennis
1. Commitment corner
Holland (formerly Burke) senior Jay’von Depina has committed to play at Northern Essex Community College, making it five of the six Bulldogs seniors who are going on to play collegiately.
Blessed enough to say i’m commiting to Northern Essex Community College! Go Knights! #AGTG pic.twitter.com/Judirawk0v
— Jay’von Depina (@DepinaJayvon) June 10, 2025
Dartmouth College announced an incoming women’s soccer class that includes two Massachusetts products: Brookline defender Anna Leschly, a two-time EMass All-Star and Bay State Conference All-Star, and BB&N’s Maeve Theobald, who made the All-NEPSAC and All-ISL first teams.
2. Coaching carousel
Methuen football coach Tom Ryan will be the athletic director at the school after serving on an interim basis last year. Longtime offensive coordinator Ryan Dugan will be promoted to interim head coach.
Ryan went 81-48 in 12 seasons coaching the Rangers. Dugan has been the offensive coordinator at his alma mater, where he teaches math, for 12 years.
Nipmuc has promoted Britt Kahler from assistant to head girls’ basketball coach. Kahler was formerly the head coach at Blackstone Valley Tech.
Congratulations to current Nipmuc Asst. Coach and former BVT Head Coach Britt Kahler. Britt will be taking over the helm of the Nipmuc Girls program @tgsports pic.twitter.com/gbNsfdiEL7
— Nipmuc HS Sports (@NipmucAD) June 12, 2025
Tabor Academy announced the promotion of 2014 graduate Lydia Caputi from assistant to head girls’ basketball coach.
Caputi takes over for Will Becker, who she coached under the last two years. An All-New England player while at Tabor, she went on to play at Babson, where she was a three-year starter.
She has coached at Trinity College and Dartmouth and was head coach at Westminster School in Simsbury, Conn.
We are excited to announce Lydia Caputi’14 as the Next Girls Varsity Basketball Head Coach! #SeawolfNationhttps://t.co/4JzHYOn4KH pic.twitter.com/ZqBRCj99iD
— Tabor Athletics (@taborathletics) June 11, 2025
Westwood athletic director Matt Gillis announced he will be retiring next week after 33 years with the school district. The Blue Hills graduate has served as the Wolverines’ AD for 13 years.
3. Milton Academy’s Partal wins Gatorade boys’ soccer award
Milton Academy senior Josh Partal has been named the Gatorade Massachusetts Boys Soccer Player of the Year.
The midfielder from Bangor, Maine, notched seven goals and eight assists, leading the Mustangs to the NEPSAC Class A championship game. A United Soccer Coaches High School All-American selection, he participated in the High School All-American Game and will play at Stanford.
“Josh just controls the game from minute one to minute 90,” said BB&N coach Joe Campbell in a release. “He never plays a bad pass and is silky smooth on the ball. His game awareness is uncanny for such a young player.”
Partal volunteers as a youth soccer coach and is a member of the Milton Academy Science Olympiad team and co-head of the MicroFinance Club.
5. TMC talks big picture, tweaks wrestling postseason
The MIAA’s Tournament Management Committee discussed two big-picture topics and made a slight change to wrestling during its Thursday meeting.
The only vote of the day was to reduce the number of wrestlers who qualify for All-States from six to five per weight, which was recommended by the wrestling committee.
“They’re trying to get their arms around the number of people who are wrestling,” said TMC chair Shaun Hart, the Burlington AD. “The events are so huge.”
Two athletic directors, Newton North’s Mike Jackson and Franklin’s Karrah Ellis, proposed that basketball quarterfinal games be held at neutral locations instead of home gyms.
“It’s definitely difficult to host an Elite Eight game in basketball,” Ellis said. “From turning people away at the door because tickets sold out, to locking down your facility. We had people break in through our loading dock trying to sneak into a game. That’s an unreasonable expectation of your event staff.”
The committee decided to add the issue to a future agenda when they have more data, with Paine noting that only three quarterfinal games in 2025 sold more than 1,000 tickets.
“We understand Newton North and Franklin had a problem, but we need to look at the numbers and look at the ticket sales,” Hart said.
Hart also noted that while hockey quarterfinals were moved to neutral locations last season, it’s not an apples-to-apples comparison.
“Everyone owns their own basketball gym and less than half the hockey teams play at a venue that is theirs,” Hart said. “They’re not the same.”
The committee also discussed the need to make the alignment process, which just wrapped up for the 2025-26 and 2026-27 school years, less arduous and acrimonious.
“We have to seriously consider what we are doing and why we are doing this work,” Hart said. “My hope is no person needs to do alignments again. We put the formula together and it runs the state and where you land is where you are.”
A sub-committee was discussed to look at alternate methods for settling alignments.
Brendan Kurie can be reached at brendan.kurie@globe.com. Follow him on X @BrendanKurie.
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Girls flag football camp highlights rapid rise of the sport in Colorado
COLORADO SPRINGS — About 75 girls, ages 10 to 18, gathered this week at a girls pro flag football camp in Colorado Springs — a clear sign of how fast the sport is gaining ground across Colorado. “To see the growth, just for women in general, is amazing… these young women are coming out and […]
COLORADO SPRINGS — About 75 girls, ages 10 to 18, gathered this week at a girls pro flag football camp in Colorado Springs — a clear sign of how fast the sport is gaining ground across Colorado.
“To see the growth, just for women in general, is amazing… these young women are coming out and wanting to play in a sport that’s mainly for men,” said Vana Medrano, quarterback for the Denver Rush, who coached at the camp.
Medrano shared her passion for the game and her hope that these young athletes take full advantage of the opportunities now available.
“I wish I started when I was younger… the opportunity is amazing,” she said.
Now recognized as Colorado’s 33rd sanctioned high school sport — and the 18th for girls — flag football marks a significant step forward for gender equity in athletics.
The sport’s momentum is especially clear at schools like Denver South, where flag football is quickly becoming part of school culture.
“It means a lot because I got to be part of the first official flag football team at my school,” said one camper who did not want to be identified for this story. “Never even thrown a football before, and I instantly fell in love.”
Medrano said the biggest takeaway she hopes to leave campers with is belief in themselves.
“I hope they leave this camp with confidence… knowing they can do it, and that the sky is the limit,” Medrano said.
The local nonprofit Pro Football Camp will host three youth events this summer, bringing in NFL, UFL, and women’s pro players to coach and mentor kids on and off the field.
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Maxwell Moldovan sinks eagle at U.S. Open
Green High School alum Maxwell Moldovan has one of the early highlights at Oakmont Country Club. On the first hole of his first round at the 2025 U.S. Open Golf Championship, former Green and Ohio State golfer needed just two strokes to get his ball into the cup, earning him an eagle on the par-4 […]
Green High School alum Maxwell Moldovan has one of the early highlights at Oakmont Country Club.
On the first hole of his first round at the 2025 U.S. Open Golf Championship, former Green and Ohio State golfer needed just two strokes to get his ball into the cup, earning him an eagle on the par-4 hole.
Moldovan, who turned pro in June 2024 and in April won his first pro event at the PGA Tour Americas Brazil Open, was one of four players in a field of 83 to qualify out of Springfield Country Club, located in Springfield, Ohio. He put together rounds of 69-65 to go 5 under, which sent him to the U.S. Open.
This is his fourth straight year competing in the event.
Dispatch reporter Rob Oller contributed to this report.
Breaking and Trending News Reporter Nathan Hart can be reached at NHart@dispatch.com and at @NathanRHart on X and at nathanhart.dispatch.com on Bluesky.
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Skiing Introduces Five
Story Links CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – Harvard University skiing will introduce five first-years to the program in 2025-26 as part of the Class of 2029, Cate Brams, the Paul J. Finnegan Family Head Coach for Harvard Nordic Skiing, and Scott MacPherson, The Peter H. Carter ’69 Head Coach for Harvard Alpine Skiing, announced on Thursday. The Crimson’s […]
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – Harvard University skiing will introduce five first-years to the program in 2025-26 as part of the Class of 2029, Cate Brams, the Paul J. Finnegan Family Head Coach for Harvard Nordic Skiing, and Scott MacPherson, The Peter H. Carter ’69 Head Coach for Harvard Alpine Skiing, announced on Thursday.
The Crimson’s Class of 2029 includes three skiers on the nordic side and two skiers for the alpine team. The group includes one student-athlete each from Alaska, California, Idaho, New York, and Ontario.
Harvard’s incoming class features Braden Bellizzi (Honeoye Falls, N.Y.), Caleb Boyce (Boise, Idaho), and Logan Cuddy (Anchorage, Alaska) on the nordic side as well as Maya Eisner (Pacific Palisades, Calif.) and Tristan Leightell (Toronto, Ontario) on the alpine side.
The group joins a Harvard program that has qualified skiers on both the alpine and nordic sides for the NCAA Championships in each of the last five competitive seasons.
Braden Bellizzi
Nordic | Honeoye Falls, N.Y. | Honeoye Falls-Lima
Earned All-Greater Rochester Skier of the Year honors in 2023 … Gained First Team All-Greater Rochester from 2021-23 … Garnered First Team All-Monroe County from 2021-23 … Represented the Mid-Atlantic Region at Junior Nationals from 2022-25 … Won an individual New York state title in 2023 … Helped team win New York state titles in 2022 and 2023 … Captured an individual sectional championship in 2023 and team sectional championships from 2021-23 … Also competed in soccer and track and field … National Honor Society member and chapter president … Enjoys surfing, whitewater kayaking, and exploring nature … Son of Kellin King ’99 and Matt Bellizzi ’96; both parents competed in nordic skiing at Harvard.
Caleb Boyce
Nordic | Boise, Idaho | Boise High School
Earned the Hummel-Fereday Award as a junior … Raced for the Bogus Basin Nordic Team … Also competed with the Boise Brave Mountain Bike Team … Won the Tour de Bogus 25k … Helped mountain bike team win the state championship three times … National Merit Finalist and an AP Scholar … Selected as the Idaho winner of the “Celebrate the West” art competition … Plays the piano … Son of Heidi and Cody Boyce.
Logan Cuddy
Nordic | Anchorage, Alaska | Robert Service High School
Earned All-America honors in 2023 … Gained All-State accolades in 2024 … Captured Team MVP laurels in 2024 … Helped team win a state title in 2022 and finish as state runner-up in 2023 and 2024 … Part of team that garnered a rating as the top high school team in the nation in 2022 according to U.S. Skiing … Served team as a two-year captain … Raced for Alaska Pacific University Nordic Ski Center … Earned the 2024 Youth Volunteer Award … Selected as an Outstanding Youth in Philanthropy … Served as the President of high school’s Special Olympics Partners Club … Aunt Nina Kemppel competed in nordic skiing at Dartmouth and represented Team USA at four Olympics (1992, 1994, 1998, 2002) … Son of Denali Kemppel and Kevin Cuddy; Denali competed in nordic skiing at Dartmouth, earning All-America honors.
Maya Eisner
Alpine | Pacific Palisades, Calif. | Rowland Hall (Utah)
Qualified for U.S. Nationals in 2024 and 2025, for U18 Nationals in 2024 and 2025, and for U16 Nationals in 2022 and 2023 … Qualified for U16 NPS at Burke Mountain in 2023 … Competed for the Mammouth Mountain Ski Team from 2021-23 and for Rowmark Ski Academy from 2023-25 … Earned Academic All-State honors … Also played soccer; helped team win a Utah 2A State Championship in 2023 … An AP Scholar with Distinction … A volunteer and student chapter co-founder of Grow the Flow, an organization advocating for the Great Salt Lake’s survival through legislation and research … Daughter of Sydney and Brian Eisner.
Tristan Leightell
Alpine | Toronto, Ontario | Green Mountain Valley School (Vt.)
Earned a bronze medal at the U19 Canadian Giant Slalom National Championships in 2025 … Ranked in the top five overall in the Canadian Giant Slalom standings in 2023, 2024, and 2025 … Placed first at the Ontario Cup in 2020 and 2021 … Selected as the Best Ontario Cup Boy at the U14 level in 2019 and the U16 level in 2021 … Raced for the Georgian Peaks Alpine Club, Ontario Development Ski Team, Green Mountain Valley School, and the Burke Mountain Academy E-Team … Also played ice hockey and lacrosse … Organized a skateboarding marathon, raising over $5000 for Beaver Valley Outreach … Son of Karen and Stephen Leightell.
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The worlds best surfers are showing their talent this week at Lower Trestles. The famous wave just south of San Clemente is the eighth stop on the World Surf League Championship Tour. Local surfers are making their mark, advancing to the final rounds, while some bigger name are left watching from the sand. Here are […]
The worlds best surfers are showing their talent this week at Lower Trestles.
The famous wave just south of San Clemente is the eighth stop on the World Surf League Championship Tour.
Local surfers are making their mark, advancing to the final rounds, while some bigger name are left watching from the sand.
Here are some of the highlights from the first two days of competition.
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