The Belchertown boys and girls cross country teams each won its final home meet of the season, downing Greenfield in a 5K dual-meet at Chestnut Hill Community School on Wednesday afternoon.
The Orioles boys fluttered past the Green Wave with a 24-33 victory, while the score of the girls race wasn’t as close as Belchertown won, 15-50.
Greenfield’s Ryan Spofford took first place in the boys race in 17 minutes, 50 seconds, but the next three finishers were all Orioles. Cian Lindsay (18:03), Emmett Howard (18:14) and Ryan Toner (18:23) rounded out Belchertown’s top three runners.
Dylan Breiwick (18:39) and Alex Scotera (18:54) from the Green Wave joined Spofford as their top three runners in the defeat.
In the girls race, four of the first five finishers were Orioles, led by race winner Molly Mazzaferro, who posted a time of 22:38. Serena Jones (22:42) and Kylie Fitzgerald (23:29) came in behind Mazzaferro for Belchertown.
Greenfield only had three runners, but all three finished in the top 10. Lauren Helie led with a fourth-place finish in 23:48, then Lillian Caron grabbed sixth in 25:23, before Lillianna Badillo earned 10th in 26:51.
Mahar 15, McCann 50
Mahar 15, Smith Voc 50
Franklin Tech 15, McCann 50
Franklin Tech 15, Smith Voc 50 (boys) — William Thomas won the race in 18:58 to lead the Eagles to a pair of team victories.
Isaiah Whitmore was the top Senators finisher, claiming second in 19:47.
Mohawk 27, Frontier 28
Mohawk 18, Pope Francis 39
Frontier 19, Pope Francis 42 (boys) — The Warriors showed off their depth in the tri-meet victory.
Mohawk had four runners finish before the Red Hawks’ third runner, proving to be the difference in Wednesday’s close competition.
Evan Hedlund and Luke Howard were first and second overall as Frontier’s best runners (both had times of 15:07), but Peter Healy (15:15), Rex Kuoppala (15:17), Carson Richardson (15:45) and Aymeric Loucka (16:24) all raced well for the Warriors to snag the victory.
Mohawk 27, Frontier 28
Mohawk 16, Pope Francis 45
Frontier 16, Pope Francis 47 (girls) — The first eight finishers alternated between the Warriors and Red Hawks, but it was Mohawk which came out on top in the neck-and-neck meet.
Warriors’ Anya Read won the girls race in 17:31, while Frontier’s first finisher went to Louise Flagollet who came in second place with a time of 18:11.
Boys soccer
Turners 3, Franklin Tech 2 — The Thunder got past the Eagles in an evenly-matched, mid-week contest.
Yolvin Ovalle-Mejia, John Ramirez and Noah Kolodziej contributed goals for Turners. On the other side, Cody Yetters and Dorin Marin scored for Tech.
Field hockey
Turners 2, Mahar 1 — Anna McCarthy and Ella Larouche potted goals as the Thunder earned their third win of the season.
The Senators’ goal came from Nevaeh Woods.
Volleyball
Mahar 3, Mohawk 0 — For the fifth straight match, the Senators walked off the court with a sweep.
Set scores were 25-17, 25-9 and 25-9.
Mahar got great performances from Madelynn Burgess (11 assists, five kills, four aces, dig) and Hayden Comeau (eight kills, four digs, three aces, assist).
Athol 3, Franklin Tech 0 — The Bears rounded out their regular season slate with a sweep against the Eagles.
Athol had lost its previous seven matches heading into the home finale.
Giana Vaillancourt (seven kills, nine assists, seven digs), Aby Spooner (four kills, nine digs) and Abbie Desrosiers (five kills, four digs) led the Bears back into the win column.
Set scores came in at 25-21, 25-20 and 27-25.
Sarah Beckwith (three aces, 10 kills) and Madison Pettengill (two aces, four kills, 11 digs, assist, block) did well in the defeat for Tech.
Greenfield 3, Pioneer 0 — The Green Wave swept the Panthers to take their third straight win.
For Pioneer, Jacobia Tyminski (four kills, two block, 21 digs, four aces) and Sophia Wood (kill, three blocks, nine digs, 16 assists) stood out in the loss.
LATE TUESDAY RESULTS
Boys soccer
Hopkins Academy 3, Greenfield 1 — Three unanswered goals from the Golden Hawks spoiled the Green Wave’s Senior Night at Veterans’ Memorial Field.
Jack Laurie put Greenfield ahead, 1-0, with a goal in the 17th minute, but Hopkins netted the next three, off strikes from James Anderson, Drew Crutch and Wyatt Soriano.
Matt Feltovic took the win for the Hawks with a six-save performance, while Green Wave goalie Liam Grahame-Lawson made seven saves in the loss.
Four Rivers Charter 6, St. Michael’s 0 — Silas Kopera and Cooper Whitney each found the back of the net twice to lead Four Rivers in the win.
Kolin Broderick and Marley McConkey also scored for the victors.
Field hockey
Frontier 3, Greenfield 0 — The Red Hawks received a hat trick from Macy DeMaio to move to 10-3-2 on the season.
Kayden Viencek made 13 saves as the Green Wave’s goalie.
