BEVERLY – The best way to start a tournament run is by going against a team of equal strength. On paper, Sunday’s Div. 1 softball tilt was billed as a showdown between 16th-seeded Beverly and No. 17 Weymouth. Thanks to rising ace Jillian Ondrick, the Wildcats coasted onward. The junior tossed a complete game, allowing two runs (neither earned) to go with three hits while striking out 13, as the Wildcats (12-9) clinched a trip to the Round of 16 with a 6-2 win over the Panthers in their playoff opener. “We just did what we’ve done all season,” said…
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As the Bruins’ scouts and executives convene in Buffalo for this week’s NHL scouting combine in advance of what will be a pivotal draft for the organization, the rest of us have our eyes fixed upon the sky over Causeway Street, waiting for the puff of white smoke to appear. A month and a half after the B’s season ended, with the team out of the playoffs for the first time in nine years, the club has yet to name a head coach that will undertake the job of rebuilding/retooling this team back into a contender. But, barring a late…
Boston Red Sox manager Alex Cora took a cautionary trip to the mound to check on closer Aroldis Chapman midway through the ninth inning of the team’s 3-1 win over the Atlanta Braves on Sunday afternoon. Chapman got ahead of Braves second baseman Ozzie Albies with an 0-1 count and drew a grounder to shortstop to record the first out of the frame. But when Sean Murphy followed up with his trip to the plate and hit a deep foul ball down the left field line, Chapman made an agitated expression that caught the attention of Boston’s dugout. Cora requested…
The Boston Celtics had the third-best record in the NBA this season, which gave them the No. 28 overall pick in the first round of the 2025 NBA Draft on June 24. The odds of the C’s finding a star player at No. 28 are obviously low. But that doesn’t mean quality players don’t exist in this range. Every year there are usually a couple rotation players to be found in the bottom third of the first round and top third of the second round. For example, the Celtics got center Robert Williams III at No. 27 in 2019 and…
NORTH ANDOVER — The team boasted some 18 runners two years ago. Besides some local allegiance to the Coffee Cake Running Club in the area, Amherst wasn’t exactly a hotbed for track talent. When Moriah Luetjen was a freshman, she never imagined hoisting hardware at the Div. 4 outdoor track and field championships. She said she didn’t see the big picture of what her career would bring. But a lot has changed in four years. Now a senior, Luetjen has watched the numbers grow before her eyes and the results they have yielded. Luetjen claimed first in the 400-meter run…
ATLANTA (AP) — Trevor Story had a three-run double in the first inning and Garrett Crochet struck out 12 in seven innings of one-run ball, leading the Boston Red Sox to a 3-1 win over the Atlanta Braves on Sunday.Story went 2 for 3 and just missed a grand slam in the first when he hit a 1-0 pitch from Bryce Elder 413 feet off the top of the wall in center, driving in Boston’s only runs. Story had a big series in Atlanta, hitting a go-ahead two-run homer in a 5-1 Red Sox win Friday.Crochet (5-4) has pitched at least five…
Dominic Smith, a once-Boston Red Sox fan favorite, is once again a free agent. Smith officially departed the New York Yankees, per ESPN’s Jeff Passan, after exercising his opt-out clause to return to free agency. The 29-year-old signed a minor league deal which included an invite to spring training with New York in January and gave Smith an opportunity to compete for a big league roster spot. But since Smith didn’t make the cut, he instead settled for a brief stay with the organization’s Triple-A affiliate. In 45 appearances with the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders this season, Smith slashed .255/.333/.781 with eight…
Getting shutout yesterday was not a fun look on the heels of actually scoring more than three runs in Friday’s match-up. The rubber gave before heading back to Fenway. Can Crochet stitch things up tight for the Red Sox or will the Braves keep pulling on loose threads and make our season unravel? ⚾️ First Pitch: 1:35pm EDT TV: NESN, MLBN (out-of-market) Radio: WEEI Source link
ROUNDUP SOFTBALL Claire Puglielli tied the game with a double in the seventh then won it two innings with a sacrifice fly to give No. 11 Reading (19-2) a 4-3 win over No. 22 Doherty in a Div. 2 first-round contest. Ava Kiley scored all four runs for the Rockets. Kiley Hogan threw a no-hitter, striking out 13 as No. 6 Tyngsboro (17-4) defeated No. 27 Rockland 12-0 in a Div. 4 first-round contest. Kristin Deschenes went 3-for-4 with a three-run homer to propel the offense. Alivia Baldwin hit a three-run homer and Mia Rousseau pitched five shutout innings as…
On Sunday, the New England Free Jacks took a big step toward a chance to defend their two straight Major League Rugby championships, clinching a top two-seed in the Eastern Conference and guaranteeing a home playoff game by beating the Seattle Seawolves 37-30. Things started poorly at Veterans Memorial Stadium in Quincy as Seattle jumped to a 12-0 lead. The Jacks went to work, first narrowing the halftime edge to three at 15-12, then dominating the second half. New England flipped that 15-12 first-half deficit with tries by Paula Balekana, Ben LeSage, Cam Nordli-Kelemet and two penalty kicks by Brock Webster…