Can’t wait for major-league baseball’s opening pitch this spring? Start warming up at the annual “NMH Dick Peller Hot Stove Night” at Northfield Mount Hermon School.
ESPN’s Buster Olney will host an informal panel of baseball professionals who will talk candidly about the upcoming season and America’s pastime Friday night at 6:30 p.m. The event, which is free and open to the public, takes place at the Rhodes Arts Center on the NMH campus in Gill.
Panelists include Galen Carr, the Los Angeles Dodgers’ director of player personnel and a 1993 NMH graduate; Sarah Langs, ESPN baseball researcher; and Rob Bradford, WEEI radio reporter and broadcaster. Olney, a writer at ESPN, is a 1982 NMH graduate.
The event will also be livestreamed at nmhschool.org/livestream.
NMH’s hot stove night is named for longtime NMH teacher and coach Dick Peller, who is now retired.
Mt. Institute results
Kikka Giudici and Valerie Hetherington took the top two spots for Deerfield Academy, but the next four skiers belonged to Northfield Mount Hermon School to help the Hoggers win the girls team title during the race No. 3 of the Mt. Institute Ski League Wednesday at Berkshire East in Charlemont.
Giudici had two of the fastest times in the slalom race on the day — including the best overall time in 34.75 seconds — and easily won the overall title with a combined score of 70.66 seconds. Hetherington finished second with a combined time of 73.34 seconds.
NMH stormed back with the next four races crossing the line. Ashley LaCross finished third overall at 75.02, and Izzy Campbell was fourth at 77.64. Olivia Weinstein was fifth in 77.73, and Arden Bacon was sixth in 78.88.
Madeline Carey of DA was eighth in 81.10, and teammate Chloe Monty was ninth in 82.13.
Mackenzie Gahan of NMH was 10th overall in 82.47.
On the boys’ side, Isaac Foster raced to a combined time of 68.21 to help NMH to a second-place finish with 291 points on the day.
Foster had the fastest time in the slalom on the day at 33.93 seconds.
Deerfield won the team crown with 308 points as five the of the next six finishers belonged to the Big Green. Garrett Alexander and Axel Mattsson tied for second overall at 70.40 seconds, while Achille Sarachek took fifth overall at 70.64. Tait Kline was sixth at 71.36, and JP Patton was seventh at 71.81.
Nils Skaane was fourth for NMH at 70.52, while Eli DiBari was ninth for the Hoggers at 74.20.
Deerfield results
The Deerfield boys swimming & diving team improved to 5-1 on the year with a 97- 68 win over NMH, Wednesday in Deerfield.
The girls team moved to 4-2 on the season with a 101-80 victory over the Hoggers.
The girls hockey team captured the Hastings Cup with a 6-0 victory over Pomfret.
Kailen Coelho, Mary Edmonds and Kelly Howe each scored goals in the win, as Deerfield improved to 10-5-2.
The boys hockey team fell to Pomfret, 4-3, in overtime to drop to 10-5-1 on the season.
The boys squash team won a pair of matches as it defeated Westminster and Millbrook by identical 7-0 scores.
The boys basketball team fell to Loomis, 78-45, and the girls basketball team suffered a 70-51 loss to New Hampton.
GMS boys roll
Behind 34 points from Maverick Ward, the Greenfield Middle School boys basketball team captured a 72-59 win over Eaglebrook School Wednesday afternoon at GMS.
Deion Brewington and Dante Ruggiano added 12 and 11 points, respectively. Seventh-grader Jacob Blanchard chipped in 7 points for Greenfield.
Greenfield SL wins
Ten different players scored points, and Greenfield defeated Amherst, 45-30, in a Suburban League grades 7 and 8 boys basketball game Tuesday in Greenfield.
Khalil Brown and Maverick Ward had 10 points apiece, while Jacob Blanchard added 6.