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Algonquin girls tennis beats Beverly, falls to Lincoln-Sudbury in playoffs
NORTHBOROUGH/SOUTHBOROUGH - The Algonquin girls tennis team’s season came to an end this week after the squad initially marched to a playoff win last Friday.
Ranked 32nd overall entering this year’s state tournament bracket, the Titans managed to hold off 33rd-ranked Beverly in their preliminary round match, securing a 4-1 win.
That punched Algonquin’s ticket to a Round of 32 clash with Lincoln-Sudbury, which ended in a 5-0 Lincoln-Sudbury sweep on Monday.
“Congratulations on a great season,” Athletic Director Mike Michael Mocerino tweeted following Monday’s seasonending loss.
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Left: Algonquin’s Elly Beauchesne returns a serve during her team’s match against Beverly last week. Above: Algonquin’s Riya Mahanta returns a serve. Right: Algonquin’s Caroline Dane returns a serve.
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Algonquin baseball advances in state championship tournament
NORTHBOROUGH/SOUTHBOROUGH - An underdog season continued on Monday for the Algonquin Regional High School baseball team, which downed St. John’s just a matter of days after defeating Peabody in their playoff opener on Saturday.
Ranked 27th overall, the Titans squad beat Peabody at home in Northborough by a score of 6-3.
That put them into the Round of 32, where they took on St. John’s with their season on the line.
Though now seeking an upset, Algonquin carried momentum with it, tracing a five game winning streak through the regular season, the recent CMADA tournament, and its most recent Peabody game.
Algonquin started that unbeaten stretch on May 23 with a win over St. John’s, securing additional wins before defeating Shrewsbury High School for a CMADA title last Tuesday.
The Titans promptly kept things going against the Pioneers, falling behind early before howling to a 7-5 win.
Algonquin was next scheduled to face Central Catholic High School in the Round of 16 on Wednesday as of press time.
PHOTOS/DAN HOLMES
Top left: Algonquin’s James Jankovich just misses the tag during his team’s playoff game against Peabody at Algonquin Regional High School in Northborough on Saturday. Top right: Algonquin’s James Jankovich connects with the ball. Bottom left: Algonquin’s Sam Salvi sends a hit to the outfield. Bottom right: Algonquin’s Connor Lee snags a ground ball during his team’s game against Peabody on Saturday.
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Westborough boys tennis dominates in playoff opener
WESTBOROUGH - The Westborough High School (WHS) boys tennis team swept its way into the next round of the state championship tournament on Monday with a 5-0 win over King Philip Regional High School.
Hosting their playoff opener in the Round of 32 after a preliminary round BYE, the second-seeded Rangers were able to handily defeat the 31stranked Warriors.
Westborough has been dominant throughout this year’s spring season, massing a 12-4 win-loss record.
The squad hadn’t lost a match since April 28 as of press time, taking 11 consecutive wins across nearly six weeks.
Six 5-0 sweeps in that batch included a CMADA tournament finals win over Algonquin on Tuesday of last week, which vaulted the Rangers into the playoffs on a high note.
The team was due to advance to the Round of 16 on Wednesday to host Dartmouth back at WHS as of press time.
PHOTOS/DAN HOLMES
Top left: Srinjoy Gosh serves in the first singles match during his team’s playoff match against King Philip on Monday. Top right: Andrew Chen returns a serve. Bottom left: Ben Dubrovsky serves. Bottom right: Eehab Khan returns a serve in the second doubles match during his team’s playoff tennis match against King Philip at Westborough High School on Monday.
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Assabet Valley student recognized for bowling success, welding sculpture
By Stuart Foster Reporter MARLBOROUGH - A junior at Assabet Valley Regional Technical High School recently won both a bronze medal for bowling and a gold medal for a welding sculpture.
The honors came within a week of each other.
Sofia Ramirez-Granick won her gold medal at the Massachusetts Skills USA competition for welding sculptures at Blackstone Valley Technical High School on April 29.
A few days later and several thousand miles away, Sofia Ramirez-Granick won the bronze medal in the individual competition at the Colombian
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Left: Sofia Ramirez-Granick recently won a major bowling honor immedeatly after being recognized for her welding prowess. Right: Sofia Ramirez-Granick won a SkillsUSA gold medal for her welding sculpture, pictured above.
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“I really just went for the experience; I didn’t expect to get a medal or anything,” Ramirez-Granick said of the bowling win. “It was really exciting. It truly was a dream come true for me.”
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Ramirez-Granick started bowling when she was 10-years old. She was inspired by her brother, David, who had also bowled.
Ramirez-Granick, whose grandparents live in Colombia, said it had then been a dream for her to bowl for the country’s team.
She was eventually offered a spot to bowl. And though most of the players she bowled alongside live in Colombia, she said she knew most of them from traveling to visit her grandparents and training at bowling.
“It was really cool to get to know them more and see their normal day, compared to what I would normally do getting ready for a tournament,” Ramirez-Granick said. “They’re used to getting up early for tournaments, and here tournaments are at noon or 2.”
Student honored in welding
Separate from bowling, Ramirez-Granick said she was extremely excited to see that her welding work was worthy of a gold medal at SkillsUSA.
Her sculpture was Day of the Dead-themed and had a sugar skull on the front with a bridge going down from the top of the skull to a boat with a Catrina in it, representing the relationship between Mexican people and their ancestors.
Ramirez-Granick said the sculpture was inspired by her Hispanic background, adding that she has always loved seeing how Mexican people celebrate their ancestors.
“Getting the chance to go to Mexico kind of pieced all of those together to inspire me for the piece,” she said of the latter bowling trip.
Ramirez-Granick became interested in welding after visiting her brother’s backto-school night when he was an Assabet student.
She saw sculptures students had welded and entered the metal fabrication shop because of her interest in art.
“I just fell in love with the shop. Everything about it was what I wanted to do,” Ramirez-Granick said.
Continuing her journey, Ramirez-Granick will next go on to the national Skills USA tournament, which is being held in Atlanta this year.
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Hudson baseball claims CMADA title, begins state playoffs
By Dakota Antelman Managing Editor HUDSON - A tight pitchers’ duel broke open in the fifth inning of the Central Massachusetts Athletic Directors’ Association (CMADA) Class B finals in Hudson on Tuesday of last week.
The Hawks baseball team then held on and beat Nipmuc, securing a tournament title on the eve of bracket seeding for this month’s state championship tournament.
“It’s huge,” Hudson’s pitcher Brady Stuart told the Community Advocate after the game.
Hudson scores in fifth inning
Held under the lights at Guidotti Field at Hudson High School, this game pitted Hudson against Division III rival Nipmuc.
Ranked sixth in updated state playoff power rankings on May 19, Hudson held a slight edge over the seventhranked Warriors coming into this game.
Closely matched, the teams then settled into a largely scoreless affair, battling into the bottom of the fifth inning in a 0-0 tie.
That’s when Hudson was finally able to advance runners before ultimately taking a 1-0 lead.
“That was a huge sigh of relief,” Stuart said.
He added that he was then confident that his team would score again.
“That’s kind of who we are,” he said. “We built some momentum.”
Hudson soon doubled its lead, now putting offensive backing behind Stuart as he navigated his squad’s remaining six outs in the sixth and seventh inning.
‘We put balls in play’
Stuart ended the day with 14 strikeouts, pitching the complete game shutout and walking no one.
“It was a great pitcher’s duel,” head coach Tim Reinhardt said of the performance. “Brady pitched well, their pitcher pitched well.”
In a year of standout pitching throughout Hudson’s rotation, Reinhardt further lauded his larger crew.
“Just to know any time that you put any of these guys out there, whether it’s Brady or [Jason] Jakobsons or [Max] Person or Conner [Madden], that you’ll be in a game and have an opportunity to win it, it’s huge,” he said, referencing other pitchers. “We always know that they’re going to give us everything they got.”
Reinhardt similarly commended his team’s offense, noting their ability to pounce on the Warriors when their time came in the fifth inning.
“Hard on the line, hard on the ground — if you do that, you make the other team make plays and you put pressure on them,” he said. “That’s what we did.”
“We put balls in play and we were able to scratch a couple runs,” he continued.
PHOTOS/DAKOTA ANTELMAN Left: Brady Stuart delivers a pitch for Hudson during his team’s CMADA championship game last week. Below: Hudson’s Max Person swings on a pitch during his team’s CMADA Class B finals game against Nipmuc last week.
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Hudson had recently maintained momentum going into its CMADA finals game, downing the Marlborough Panthers on Memorial Day with a 7-1 final score.
The team then jumped into its state tournament bracket on Monday, shutting out Norwell in a 10-0 win.
Hudson was next due to face Newburyport on Wednesday in the Round of 16 as of press time.
“We’ll enjoy this tonight,” Reindhart said last Tuesday. “Then, we’ll go get ready for tomorrow.”
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