It's a Duxbury double
Wins for girls', boys' lacrosse
In two highly anticipated lacrosse matchups in Duxbury yesterday, the girls' and boys' Green Dragon squads defended their turf, shutting down competition from near and far.
After losing Thursday to unranked Norwell, the sixth-ranked Duxbury girls regrouped and put together a 17-10 nonleague win over No. 19 Weston.
The boys squashed Western Mass. powerhouse Longmeadow (11-2), using an early nine-goal run en route to a 14-10 victory.
Duxbury's girls (9-2-1) qualified for the state tourney.
"Draw control was huge for us today," said coach Sue Paull. "I think in the first half we came up with more then Weston did and Stephanie [Hoomis] had some nice saves in goal."
Weston (9-5) found itself trailing, 10-5, at the half. Duxbury opened the second half with a goal by senior captain Erin Levesque, one of two on the day for her. But Courtney Davenport (two goals, three assists) tallied to keep Weston within reach.
Duxbury then went on a scoring spurt - two by Meg Muncey (four goals) and one each by Jill Caramello (four goals, one assist) and Trish Babson (two goals, four assists) - to produce a 15-6 cushion.
Weston scored the next three to make it 15-9, but "we called a timeout and had the kids regroup," said Paull. "The kids [then] played better, they moved the ball better, and they played their game as opposed to the game we brought to Norwell.
"We just have to keep focused for the rest of the season."
Sophomore Ginny Desmery added four goals for the winners.
In the later boys' matchup, the sideline looked tense in the second minute as David Thor struck first for Longmeadow, which endured an almost three-hour bus ride to take on the Dragons, ranked No. 1 in Eastern Mass.
But the tension lasted about a minute and a half before Duxbury (14-2) ripped off its nine-goal spurt, five in the first quarter and four more to start the second.
Longmeadow rallied twice, answering the nine-goal streak with four consecutive tallies and finishing the game with another four in a row to make it interesting.
But strong defending from seniors Craig Sullivan and Mark Murphy, as well as three second-half goals from Scott Austin, kept the Lancers at bay and extended Duxbury's MIAA unbeaten streak to 83 games.
"We like [spurts] when they're in our favor. When it swings the other way, you've got to knuckle down," said coach Chris Sweet.
In other girls' lacrosse action:
Catholic Central: Courtney Winters's three second-half goals propelled St. Mary's (8-5) to a 9-5 win over Archbishop Williams. The Spartans outscored the Bishops, 7-1, in the second half to earn their fifth straight win.
Nonleague: No. 13 Hopkinton rolled to a 17-4 win over Hingham, thanks to a four-goal, three-assist performance by Jamie Dolan. Mallory Bannon had 10 saves for the Hillers.
Baseball
Cape Ann: Kevin Singer went 3 for 4 with three RBIs and three doubles and also got the win in North Reading's 12-2 victory over Amesbury.
Old Colony: Tyler Waterman had a two-run home run in Bridgewater-Raynham's 11-2 defeat of Dartmouth.
Softball
Old Colony: Brittany Eldridge scattered two hits and struck out 15 for No. 11 Bridgewater-Raynham in its 3-0 win over Dartmouth. She also had three hits and an RBI.
ISL: BB&N's Ali Parker pitched a two-hitter and Mallory Carroll hit a two-run single in the sixth in the Knights' 2-1 win over Middlesex.
Globe correspondent Sarina Mathai contributed to this report.
