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Boston Globe
10-06-2025
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Alex Lutky dreamt of walking off Franklin. The King Philip senior did so in the Division 1 quarterfinals
With a swift motion, Lutfy caught the pitch with the end of his bat, lifting it the opposite way to left, and the ball was not handled, dropping in to lift the fourth-seeded Warriors to a frenetic 2-1 win. Fairy-tale ending! Alex Lutfy lifts a bases-loaded single over Franklin's left fielder, who barely caught a piece of the ball but didn't manage to haul it in. Unreal. — Graham Dietz (@graham_dietz) KP (20-4) will take on No. 8 Braintree (15-8) in a state semifinal (TBD). 'You can't make that feeling up,' said Lutfy, who was 3 for 4 in the designated hitter spot. 'It's like Christmas morning. I don't know how else to put it. Probably the greatest thing I've ever done.' Advertisement 'We battle Franklin every year and they've had our number for quite a while,' King Philip coach Jeff Plympton Jr. said. 'This year, we got two wins against them [in the regular season] probably [for the first time] since 2016. If we won those two, we needed to win this one.' Get Starting Point A guide through the most important stories of the morning, delivered Monday through Friday. Enter Email Sign Up The game was a duel into the seventh, with Cam Hasenfus and Franklin's Zach Winer matching pitch for pitch. Winer yielded two hits over six innings, fanning seven, allowing an unearned run. Hasenfus scattered seven hits in a complete-game effort, walking one and striking out four. 'Unbelievable. MVP of the Hockomock, and it's not an easy thing to do — pitch like that in front of this environment,' Plympton Jr. said. 'Anytime he takes the mound, this team has tremendous energy, and they want to play for him … It felt like a basketball atmosphere there at the end.' Advertisement The Arlington Catholic baseball team shows off its new banner after advancing to the Division 3 state semifinals. Graham Dietz Division 3 State Arlington Catholic 5, Foxborough 3 — In the bottom of the sixth inning, in a bases-loaded, two-out jam, Arlington Catholic senior Matthew Toland saw his pitch ricochet off the bat of Foxborough's Ben Angelini. His reaction? 'Oh no.' A trip to the semifinals, the first in program history, was on the line. 'You know, this could be a bases-clearing double,' Toland said. 'But [Ryan Tarello]'s the fastest kid I know. He covers ground so well.' By the time Angelini's moonshot to center field reached its apex, Tarello was already perched under it with his mitt open. The ball landed safely into his glove, and 11th-seeded Arlington Catholic (16-6) was on its way to the victory in a game that was suspended Saturday (with AC on top, 3-1) because of rain. Toland put away all but one batter in the seventh, who walked, and recorded the final out himself by tossing a short grounder to first. 'Toland, he's the [Catholic Central] league MVP two years in a row,' Arlington Catholic coach Chris Hall said. 'We have confidence in all our pitchers, but he's been the central core. And it's ironic that when Matt pitches, Ryan goes to center, and he maybe made the catch of the program on that play.' In addition to pitching the final five innings, Toland also had two RBIs — one Saturday, and another in the top of the fourth when play resumed. Coleman O'Neill, Tyler Valente, Pat Clair and Trey Flaherty all collected hits, with Clair's RBI double to left-center in the top of the fifth increasing the lead to 5-1. Advertisement Aidan Stow had an RBI double for Foxborough in the fifth. 'It's obviously easy to pitch coming in with the lead,' Toland said. 'We just knew we had to come in here and get on them early, because we had to keep up the momentum and couldn't let them get anything.'
Boston Globe
31-05-2025
- Sport
- Boston Globe
Playing for the second time in 24 hours, No. 27 Taunton boys' volleyball shocks No. 6 Nipmuc in D1 first round
3-1 win for — AJ (@aj_traub) 'Two games in 18 hours, we're asking a lot of our guys,' Chaperon said. 'We had some guys cramping up, and a little tired, a little hungry, but they pushed through and were able to beat a very, very good team today. So happy to move on.' Senior Travis Johnson (16 kills, 6 digs) worked opposite junior Donny Providence (9 kills, 10 digs) to power the pins, with senior Ike Asiegbunam and sophomore Syre Duverna each smacking 12 kills in the middle. Get Starting Point A guide through the most important stories of the morning, delivered Monday through Friday. Enter Email Sign Up 'We live in Taunton and we're always going to get a low seed and disrespect like that,' said Freitas, who finished with 45 assists, 3 digs, and 2 kills. 'So honestly, it brings us up and we all come together to show them who really is, who really deserves the high seed.' Related : Advertisement The Division 1 tournament has seen an historic amount of upsets, and with the Tigers (17-4) about to face No. 22 Milford (Tuesday, 6 p.m.), with which it split the season series and Hockomock title, after the Scarlet Hawks took down No. 11 Chelmsford. No. 21 Weymouth and No. 23 St. John's (Shrewsbury) are still standing in the second round after eliminating No. 12 Wellesley and No. 10 Springfield Central, respectively. Advertisement 'We have talented players that could probably compete with anybody in the state,' Chaperon said. 'That's what we believe. That's what we tell our kids. If you're in the state tournament, if you don't believe that, you don't even belong. So we tell our kids we're in every match and we have to execute . . . As far as the seed thing, I don't really pay too much mind to it.' Related : Freitas played club with a lot of the Warriors, and saw them posting about their victories en route to an 18-3 season. It made for another wrinkle in what the Tigers accomplished. 'I'm going to remember this probably for the rest of my life,' Freitas said. 'Especially since I love these guys on Nipmuc.' AJ Traub can be reached at
Boston Globe
09-05-2025
- Sport
- Boston Globe
Globe Top 20 baseball poll: Meet the new No. 1, same as the old No. 1
There was limited movement in the top 10, with North Andover joining the top half of the poll and Weymouth moving up to No. 9. Andover, St. John's Prep, and Wellesley all rise two spots in the back half of the rankings. Related : New entrants include Attleboro, which is off to an 11-3 start and an 8-2 mark in the Hockomock, and Chelmsford, which returns to the poll after a week away. Records based on scores reported to the Globe. Advertisement The Globe's Top 20 baseball poll The Globe poll as of May 9, 2025. Teams were selected by the Globe sports staff. No. Team Record Previous 1. St. John's (S) 13-2-0 2 2. Xaverian 12-3-0 1 3. Plymouth North 12-1-0 3 4. BC High 9-5-0 4 5. Taunton 11-3-0 5 6. St. Mary's 14-1-0 6 7. King Philip 12-2-0 7 8. Braintree 8-4-0 8 9. Weymouth 10-5-0 10 10. North Andover 9-3-0 12 11. Andover 8-1-0 13 12. St. John's Prep 7-5-0 14 13. Wellesley 9-4-0 15 14. Lincoln-Sudbury 9-5-0 9 15. Walpole 6-6-0 11 16. Bishop Feehan 10-3-0 16 17. Duxbury 12-2-0 18 18. Attleboro 11-3-0 – 19. Lawrence 8-4-0 17 20. Chelmsford 8-6-0 – Mike Puzzanghera can be reached at
Boston Globe
23-04-2025
- Sport
- Boston Globe
Eastern Mass. softball: Globe Players of the Week for April 14-22
Get Starting Point A guide through the most important stories of the morning, delivered Monday through Friday. Enter Email Sign Up Taryn Leonard , Whitman-Hanson — Raising her career homer total to 20, the senior clubbed a pair of long balls, knocking in six runs during an 18-5 Patriot League triumph over Hingham. Leonard kicked off her week with a home run and a double in a 7-6 league win against Pembroke. Advertisement Liv Petrillo , King Philip — The senior slugged six homers in three games, all wins. Petrillo mashed three two-run blasts in a 12-0 Hockomock win over Milford. She launched another two-run blast, finishing with three RBIs and two runs scored in a 12-0 league victory vs. Oliver Ames. In a top-10 matchup vs. Bishop Feehan, the Providence-bound Petrillo belted a grand slam in a 5-1 win. Related : Advertisement Alyx Rossi , Bedford –– The Boston College-bound southpaw struck out 16 in six innings Thursday, cracking a pair of home runs in an 18-1 nonleague victory against Natick. Her effort Tuesday at Abington was jaw-dropping, 26 strikeouts in a one-hit shutout during a 10-inning, 2-0 nonleague victory.
Boston Globe
17-04-2025
- Sport
- Boston Globe
Eastern Mass. boys' lacrosse: Globe Players of the Week for April 8-15
Brayden Mattera , Walpole — The 'quarterback' of Related : Cullen O'Brien , Canton — The junior racked up 17 goals and six assists while lifting the Bulldogs (4-2) to Hockomock wins over Oliver Ames (15-6) and Taunton (16-0), plus a 12-5 nonleague victory at Wayland. Advertisement Nathan Tremlett , Medford — The senior captain led the Mustangs (3-1) to consecutive Greater Boston League wins over Somerville and Revere with four goals and three assists in both contests, and is now up to 17 goals and 14 assists through four games. Travis Smith , Falmouth — After going 9 for 14 on faceoffs in Friday's 6-5 win at Norwell, the junior went 18 for 19 at the X and netted a hat trick in Tuesday's 16-5 win over Barnstable. Nate Weitzer can be reached at
