Senior Todd Chiasson scored a tight victory at 160 pounds, and host Mahar Regional School closed out its stellar dual meet portion of the season with a tight 45-36 victory over Smith Vocational in an independent wrestling match Tuesday night in Orange.
Chiasson edged Smith Voke’s Casey Baldwin, 4-3, to snag three points toward the team total for the Senators, which already wrapped up the Suburban League North championship.
“I really, really trust Todd in a close match,” Mahar coach John Speek. “He knows what he needs to do. He was trailing 3-2 late in the match, pulled out a reversal in the final moments and got the job done. He knew exactly what he needed to do to pull that out.”
Jon Mahony needed just 17 seconds to earn a pin for Mahar at 120 pounds, defeating Charlie Winstch in quick fashion.
Henry Gilmore also scored a first-period pin at 152 pounds, where he finished off Smith Voke’s Tyler Prats just before the end of the opening frame after jumping out to a 7-1 lead.
Rounding out the winners on the mat for the Senators was Gracin Bisceglia at 220 pounds, who stormed to a 5-0 lead against Zac Martinez and eventually scored a first-period pin. The victory sewed up the team win for Mahar.
“I told him that we needed that pin to put it out of reach and he went out and got it,” Speek said of Bisceglia.
Mahar (21-6) received forfeit wins from Issa Gilmore (106 pounds), Jeff Kidwell (113), Domanic Cacciolfi (126) and Leighton Soucie (195) to secure the team victory.
Northampton 36, Mohawk Trail 18 — Jaden Moore and William VanVleet scored victories on the mat for the Warriors in a 36-18 independent loss to Northampton, Tuesday night.
Moore captured an 8-5 decision over Northampton’s Evan Renauld at 152 pounds, and VanVleet held off Colin Evans, 9-5, in a 285-pound contest.
Elliot Gougeon (120 pounds) and Quinton Romer (160) added victories forfeit for the Warriors.
Greenfield 60, Athol 33 — A big second half propelled Greenfield to a decisive 60-33 victory over Athol in a Franklin County League North girls basketball game Tuesday at Nichols Gymnasium.
Greenfield (12-4, 5-0) led 27-17 at halftime, but outscored the visiting Red Raiders by a 18-3 margin in the third quarter to create some additional separation.
Katie Haselton just missed a triple-double, going for 17 points (all in the first three quarters), 12 steals and nine rebounds to pace the Green Wave. Racquel Provost drilled a trio of 3-pointers en route to a 13-point outing, while Lillia Kachelmeyer made it three Greenfield players in double figures with 11 points. Bry Rivera chipped in eight points in the victory.
Athol (6-11, 0-6) received a game-high 18 points from Haley Bigwood. Geca Baptista followed with five points, and Taylor Cleveland tossed in four.
Athol hosts Frontier on Friday while Greenfield visits Hopkins.
Putnam 45, Turners 27 — The Thunder held strong for three quarters, but ran out of gas late as the Beavers outscored the hosts by a 15-7 margin in the fourth en route to a 45-27 FCL South victory on Tuesday in the Powertown.
Taylor Greene provided the offense for the Thunder (5-11, 1-4), leading the way with 14 points.
Steph Peterson added five points for Turners while Eliza Johnson, Karissa Fleming, Lindsay Whiteman and Morgan Dobias each scored two points in the loss.
Johanys Andrades led Putnam (8-7, 4-1) with 20 points.
McCann Tech 51, Mohawk 30 — Turnovers plagued the Warriors throughout Tuesday’s contest with the Hornets, with Mohawk suffering a 51-30 FCL West loss in Buckland.
The Warriors were never able to get much going on the offensive end, scoring just 12 points at the half and adding four in the third quarter.
Grace Ward led the way for Mohawk (3-12, 0-5) with eight points while Mya Lesieur added in seven points, knocking down the team’s lone 3 of the night.
Grace Poplawski, the Warriors leading scorer, was held in check with four points.
Grace Towler knocked down three 3’s to lead McCann (7-8, 4-1) with 13 points.
FC Tech 46, McCann Tech 44 — It was the Eagle defense that got the job done Tuesday in North Adams.
Franklin Tech trailed McCann Tech, 35-33, going into the fourth quarter, where the Eagles locked down and held the Hornets to just nine points in the final eight minutes.
McCann had a pair of chances to win it late, but were unsuccessful in those attempts and Franklin Tech came away with an impressive 46-44 Tri-County League North road win.
“Another good road win for us, good win overall,” Franklin Tech coach Tim Artus said. “Any league win is a good win. Our defense was some of the best I’ve seen all year as a team. McCann is a talented team. They’re playing well, it took all of us communicating to get our rotations right.”
Bailey Young finished with a game-high 19 points for the Eagles (11-5, 3-2), and the senior also snagged three steals in the win.
Garret Cole had another big all-around effort, scoring 15 points, pulling down 12 boards, dishing two assists and blocking three shots. Justin Littlewood did all the little things, scoring four points but also grabbing 11 rebounds, getting two steals and tossing three assists.