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Sean Thompson was dominant, holding New Bedford to two hits and one earned run while fanning nine in five innings, as Central Catholic rolled 11-3. Dom Keegan drove in four runs.

Kelvin Davila and Josh Paige were both undefeated for Andover wrestling in Foxboro. Davila went 3-0 with three pins at 152, and Paige was 2-0 with a pair of pins at 120 as the Warriors won two matches in a quad meet.

Methuen is no longer perfect, but it's still unbeaten.

Wrestling without standouts Nate Green and Matt Cabezas, the Rangers (17-0-1) whipped BC High (42-24) and Duxbury (44-23) but had to settle for a 39-39 tie against a solid Foxboro club. Trevor Abdallah had thee pins at 170 while Darius Franklin and Travis Manick were also 3-0 from 182 to 220.

Methuen won twice but also dropped its first two meets of the season, both on the last match of the meet, 42-36 to Milton and 40-33 to New Bedford. Christian Monserrat and Darius Franklin both remained unbeaten on the year despite wrestling in two weight classes, Billy Wehring was 4-0 despite moving up to 120 and Mike Golio continued his recent surge by winning three matches at 120.

In his first action since recovering from a concussion suffered in football, Haverhill senior Parris Williams went 3-0 with three pins in a multi-team wrestling meet at Pentucket.

Check out plenty of highlights from Andover's victory over New Bedford, including interviews with all five Golden Warrior starters and coach Jim Tildsley.

Behind 28 points from Nicole Boudreau and 12 from Devon Caveney, Andover edged New Bedford, 54-46 to advance to this weekend's Division 1 state finals.

Andover set state records in the high jump (Moira Cronin, Jess Salley, Alyssa Cummings) and the pole vault (triple winner Eve Bishop, Cummings, Abbey Pettoruto) and the 4x100 (Terra Organisciak, Vanessa Singleton, Bishop, Kayla Baldwin) mark just has to be verified. That was enough to earn the Blue and Gold a second-place finish at the Division 1 state relays.

Andover held off New Bedford, 46-44, to repeat as the Class A Relays. New Bedford almost tied up the Golden Warriors but the Whalers took third in the high jump and Andover held on. Adam Vetere was a double winner (4x400, 4x800). Connor O'Neill, Kerrick Stevens and the victorious 4x800 team of Scott Waller, Simon Voorhees, Chris Goodwin and Vetere turned in a stellar effort to take that event.