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Julia Valenti was once again a dyanamic presence, winning the pole vault (10-6) and 100 hurdles and taking second in the shot put as North Reading won the EMass. Division 4 team title with 99 points.

North Reading's Julia Valenti broke the EMass. Division 4 meet record with a 12-7.5 in the pole vault. That also added 1.5 inches to her all-time area mark. Jenna Raffael won the pentathlon and Cole Godzinski took the gold in the 100 hurdles and was second in the triple jump.

The Methuen-Tewksbury girls hockey team keeps reaching milestones in its first year. After making the tournament, Methuen won its first postseason game yesterday, blasting Norwell 10-3. Amanda Conway continued her scoring spree with four goals while seventh grader Kelly Golini had three goals and two assists. Methuen plays again tomorrow at Canton at 4:30.

WELLESLEY — North Andover senior Caroline Barclay wiped away a few tears and smiled as she reflected on the season.

“We won’t be Scarlet Knights anymore,” said Barclay. “But it doesn’t end here. I’ll still be playing plenty of lacrosse. I’m excited.”

WELLESLEY ­— The North Andover girls lacrosse team lost in the Division 2 state championship game to Norwell last night 15-6 in front of about 1,000 fans at Babson College.

Norwell’s quad-captain Kate MacDonald’s six points (3 goals, 3 assists) and sophomore Molly Cox’s hat trick in the first half were too much to overcome. The Knights went into the half trailing 8-1.

If last year was its coming out party, then this year Newburyport announced its presence with authority (to quote Tim Robbins from the movie "Bull Durham").

A year ago, Newburyport may have only played two bad games. The first being against North Reading | a team the Clippers traditionally had trouble playing | losing 1-0 in the middle of the regular season.

Newburyport girls soccer coach Robb Gonnam does not call her the "energizer bunny" for nothing.

Just when legs on the field at Quincy Memorial Stadium appeared to be looking a little heavy last night, there was Taylor Bresnahan running hard to set up the dramatic game-winning goal over Norwell in double-overtime in the Division 3 state semifinals.