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Arlington resident Steph Quinn earned high marks in goal for Connecticut College’s field hockey team this fall as a senior.
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Standing tall in goal for Camels
Arlington resident Steph Quinn earned high marks in goal for Connecticut College’s field hockey team this fall as a senior.
Connecticut College goalie Steph Quinn of Arlington finished her senior season on a high note, backstopping the Camels field hockey team this fall to its first appearance in the New England Small College Athletic Conference postseason tournament since 2005.
A graduate of the Brooks School in North Andover, Quinn ranked third in the NESCAC and 32d in the nation with an average of eight saves per game. In a 2-1 victory against 16th-ranked Amherst College on Sept. 26, Quinn recorded 10 of her 13 saves in the second half, earning her selection to the Womensfieldhockey.com website’s weekly honor roll.
“Steph was a tremendous asset to our program,’’ said head coach Debbie Lavigne. “I was most impressed with her leadership. She played with a ton of confidence and stepped up in several games. Her competitive attitude was contagious.’’
Quinn’s teammates included freshman Kelsey Nickerson (Weston High), who had four goals and four assists and was second on the team with 12 points, and sophomore Hanna Wagner of Sudbury (Lincoln-Sudbury High), who chipped in with four goals and eight points.
Spielman dives right in as a college freshman
Sara Spielman, a freshman at the University of Rochester and a graduate of Belmont High School, has already impressed the university’s diving coach, Greg Brandes, after her first two meets.Spielman finished second overall on the 1-meter board in a meet against Case Western Reserve and New York University, with her scoring average of 204.5 including a first-place finish against Case Western’s divers, and was third overall on the 3-meter board, with 209 points. Her performance was noted by the University Athletic Association, which named her its women’s swimming and diving athlete of the week. She followed that up with a pair of third-place finishes (against eight competitors) last weekend in a match with Union College.
“Sara’s the only diver I’ve coached in my six years here to score at least 200 points in her first meet,’’ said Brandes. “She’s been consistently good and sometimes great. She trains long and hard, and that’s going to make her an even better diver in college.’’
In both her junior and senior years at Belmont High, Spielman was a third-place finisher at the Division 2 state meet, and she was a three-time Middlesex League diving champ and four-time league all-star. She also competed for the Charles River Diving Club.
Ortiz skating toward a banner season
With nine points in as many games, University of Massachusetts at Amherst senior Will Ortiz of Framingham was on track for the most productive season of his college hockey career. The 5-foot-9, 164-pound forward had 3 goals and 6 assists, including the game-winner against Boston University. His 21 points as a freshman is his single-season high at UMass.“Will is athletic and energetic and is playing the best hockey of his career. He’s a great ambassador for our program, on and off the ice,’’ said head coach Don (Toot) Cahoon, whose team was 7-2 going into Thursday’s game against Yale, and ranked 11th in two national polls. Ortiz is a member of the university’s student athlete advisory panel, and has participated in the NCAA’s summer leadership conference.
Hudson High to hold hall ceremonies Friday
Hudson High School’s Athletic Hall of Fame induction ceremonies will take place Friday at 11 a.m. at the Elks Hall on Park Street. The honorees and year of graduation: Ken Clark (1928, posthumously); Roland Chartrand (1955); John Clark (1960); Bob Alicea (1970); Mark Kosinski (1981);Karen Anastas (1994); Lisa Chamberlain Horan (1998); and Katie Bowen Paoletta (1999). Vic Cunha, parks foreman, will be inducted as a contributor.Teams to be recognized are the 1960 and 1972 boys’ track & field squads, the 1975 boys’ tennis team, and the 1999 state championship baseball team.
The inductees will also be honored at halftime of Hudson’s Thanksgiving Day game against Marlborough; a pregame coffee hour will be held at 9 a.m. at Hudson High. For information, contact Stephen Smith at 978-568-1023.
Here and there
The Boston Bruins Alumni team, including all-time greats Ray Bourque and Rick Middleton, will play an all-star team representing the Massachusetts Down Syndrome Congress today at 1:15 p.m. at the New England Sports Center in Marlborough. Tickets are $5; children 12 and under are free. Spectators are invited to skate with the players at noon. . . Mount Pleasant Country Club in Boylston has honored course superintendent Todd Sauer by adding his name to the bridge on the 13th hole. The Boylston resident has worked at the club since the late 1970s and has been superintendent since 1994. . . Wheaton College junior guard Anthony Coppola of Watertown became the men’s basketball program’s 12th player to reach the 1,000-point plateau. He hit the mark in the Lyons’ season-opening 59-56 loss to Emerson, his 52d game for the Norton school. Other local players on the squad include senior forward Ben Stehle (Newton South), who led Wheaton in rebounding a year ago, and freshman forward Brian Johnson (Brimmer & May School. . . St. John’s High senior Nathan Lapointe, a standout on the Shrewsbury school’s baseball squad, has signed a letter of intent to attend Boston College. Other former Pioneers playing Division 1 baseball include Garret Smith (Boston College), Chad Gallagher (Marist), Kevin Quaranto (Siena), and John Andreoli (UConn).Marvin Pave can be reached at 508-820-4223 or marvin.pave@rcn.com. 
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