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With No. 1 player, junior standout Ryan Swanson out with the flu, Pentucket's boys tennis team dropped a 3-2 decision to Austin Prep in the first round of the Division 3 North tournament. Both doubles teams —  Nick Giannino and B.G. Smith at No. 1 and Nates Bames and Pat Baga at No. 2 — won their matches for the Sachems (10-5). 

Breanna Yocum (4 goals, 3 assists), Kayla O’Connor (5 goals, 4 assists) and Liz Jayne (4 goals, 3 assists) all starred as No. 7 Pentucket downed No. 10 Bishop Fenwick 21-14 in the Division 2 North first round. Hilary Dandurant made 11 saves to help lead the Sachems.

Victoria Castigione won the pole vault with a career-best 8-6 for Pentucket at the Eastern Mass. Division 3 meet. Alanna Poretta added a second in the mile for the Sachems.

Shortstop Billy Lafferty made a backhand stab of a bad-hop grounder and turned it into a double play, then contributed two hits and an RBI offensively in Whittier's 7-0 win over Pentucket. Freshman Nathan Frongillo added a double and two singles, driving in runs with each hit for the Wildcats. Sophomore Corey McNamara had two hits for the Sachems.

Making just his second varsity start, Pentucket third-baseman Max Cavanaugh cranked a solo homerun in the seventh inning to break a 1-1 tie. The homerun sparked a three-run inning for the Sachems, as they hung on to beat Triton 4-3.  

Pentucket won its third straight match, knocking off Wilmington, 4-1. Sarah Dillon battled for a 7-5 second-set win as part of a straight-set victory for the Sachems.

Five Pentucket errors led to six unearned runs and a 7-2 loss to Amesbury, eliminating the Sachems from postseason play.  Despite the defeat, pitcher Julianne Meehan was stellar allowing five hits while striking out five and walking no one.

Two pressure-packed goals earned Pentucket a 6-5 overtime victory over Arlington Catholic, setting the stage for a state tourney berth win a victory in its last game against Haverhill Thursday. Jeremy Krugh kept the Sachems alive by tying the contest with one second left in regulation. With 50 seconds left in the second OT period, Jay Duchanes took a feed from Alex Connolly and found the mark for the game-winner.

8 losses combined 10 runs

 Daryl Varney set a meet record   4:22.1 - meet recordByung Cha won the 100 meters for the second straight year - 10.9 and anchored our 4x100 to a win "We almost didn't run him today because he was a little beat up.  We were 50-50 and he wanted to run today and be part of the team effort and he convinced us and the results stand for themselves."