Clarissa Pollard finished second overall Saturday to help the Mohawk Trail Regional High School girls’ cross country ski team to a second-place finish during a Berkshire League meet in Buckland.
Pollard completed the course in 14 minutes, 13 seconds to finish one second back of Mt. Greylock Regional High School’s Brandi Gill and tied with Mt. Greylock’s Margo Smith for second place.
Mt. Greylock won the girls’ team score with 16 points, while Mohawk was second with 39 points. Lenox Memorial High School was third with 47 points, and Northfield Mount Hermon School was fourth with 61.
Lilly Wells was sixth overall for Mohawk in 15:02, and Sarah Gokey tied for 10th overall at 15:57. Mae Rice-Lesure was 23rd overall in 17:05, and Erika Looman was 27th in 17:12.
Nevada Powers led NMH with a seventh-place finish (15:15). Eliza Mann was 15th in 16:21.
• On the boys’ side, Aidan Sandvik was 11th overall in 13:19 but the Mohawk team did not have enough skiers to score as a team.
Max Carr came in 29th for Mohawk in 15:50. Guy Rice-Lesure was 32nd overall in 15:57.
The NMH boys came in second as a team with 37 points. Kent Yoshikawa won the race in 12:11 for the Hoggers, and Toby Weed was third in 12:21.
Amherst 8, Turners Falls 0 — Nathan Masteralexis scored five goals, four during a six-goal first-period by Amherst Regional High School, and the Hurricanes dominated Turners Falls High School, 8-0, in a Fay-Wright Division hockey game Saturday night at Collins-Moylan Arena in Greenfield.
The Indians were playing without an experienced goalie due to an illness, so Mike McGoldrick put on pads and did his best in the spot start in net. It did not help McGoldrick that Amherst crushed Turners in the shot department, peppering McGoldrick with 46 to the Indians’ 14. McGoldrick was able to turn aside 38 on the day, but the first period was a disaster and Amherst jumped out to a 6-0 lead.
Masteralexis got the Hurricanes on the board just over a minute into the game. Then Jake Balderston made it 2-0 just over three minutes in. Masteralexis made it 4-0 with a pair of consecutive goals in the middle of the period, and added his fourth of the frame with 6:52 to play in the first. Max Hopley also scored in the first period for Amherst.
Masteralexis and Brand Feldman each scored in the second period. Feldman also had three assists, while Balderston notched two assists. Clayton Bowser stopped 11 shots in the win.
McGoldrick made 38 saves in the loss.
Belchertown 5, Greenfield 1 — Cam Cass scored twice to lead Belchertown High School to a 5-1 win over Greenfield High School Saturday in a Fay-Wright hockey game at Collins-Moylan Arena in Greenfield.
Chris Buffone, Ray Langevin and Justin Pendrick also scored for the Orioles, who scored twice in the second and twice in the third after each team traded goals in the first period.
Evan Simmons scored on an assist from Sarah O’Sullivan in the first period for the lone Green Wave goal.
Kyle Greene stopped 20 shots to pick up the win. Finn O’Connor turned aside 28 shots in the loss.
Tech third at Northbridge
Franklin County Technical School placed three wrestlers second overall in their weight classes Saturday and the Eagles came in third as a team at the Northbridge Invitational Tournament.
Bridgewater Raynham High School and Nashoba Regional High School took the top two spots at the tournament.
Peter Saladino made the championship bout at 113 pounds but was pinned 28 seconds in by Toll Gate (R.I.) High School’s Bill Brogno to finish second. Skyler Rouse was also in the finals at 126 and his bout went the distance against Toll Gate’s Datyn Deasler, but Rouse came out on the losing end of a 13-9 score.
The third Eagle wrestler to make the finals was Chris Ludwig at 145 pounds and he suffered a 3-1 loss to Dana Tripp of Bristol County Agricultural High School.
Two other Eagles finished third. Spencer Telega defeated Bridgewater-Raynham’s Shane Corboy, 6-5, in the third-place bout at 152 pounds, and Caileb Milton pinned John Charbonneau of Northbridge 1:15 into the third-place bout to take third at 182.
The Eagles also had a pair of wrestlers fall in the third-place match to settle for fourth. Jordan Bashaw dropped an 8-2 decision to Kyle Brown of Toll Gate at 152 pounds (the second time Brown beat Bashaw on the day) to finish fourth, and Brody Wood lost an 8-1 decision to Ethan Hill of Nashoba in the consolation finals at 170 pounds.
Franklin County Tech will host Granby High School Wednesday at 7.
Frontier 1-2 at Ludlow
Frontier Regional School went 1-2 Saturday at the Ludlow High School duals.
The Red Hawks defeated Mt. Greylock (48-30) but fell to both Ludlow (45-34) and Putnam Vocational Technical Academy (69-12).
Seventh-grader Bailey Murry was perfect at 120 pounds with a pair of wins via pin, while Connor Pettis matched him with an unbeaten day at 1126 pounds that also featured a pair of pins.
Joey Hildreth earned a pair of victories at 182 pounds for the Hawks. Tanner Finch (106 pounds), Rearkeous McMillan (132), eighth-grader Jackie Phong (285) and Nate Austin (152) each earned wins via pin on the day.