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LAWRENCE — Wilmington did an admirable job of defending Pentucket senior guard and high scorer Angelica Hurley Wednesday night in the Division 2 North semifinals, holding her to just one field goal in four attempts.

Cole Fagan, Sean Corliss and Tim Berube scored as North Andover trimmed Wilmington, 3-2, in the Haverhill Christmas Tourney. Patrick Green turned aside 18 shots and had his "A" game late in the third. In Saturday's title game (7 p.m.), the Knights will play the winner of Thursdayt's late game Newton North vs. Exeter. 

Central Catholic was highly regarded in the preseason and Saturday the Raiders showed just why by capturing the Sons of Italy crown in Wilmington.

The Raiders, who crowned four champions, finished with 174 points, comfortably ahead of runner-up Brookline (149) and defending champion Haverhill (147).

Whittier rallied with two runs in the seventh to edge Wilmington, 4-3. Alicia Habib, Alyssa Michel and KJ Campbell had big hits in the comeback win for the surging Wildcats (9-1).

Haverhill's wrestling team battled Shawsheen all the way at the Sons of Italy tournament in Wilmington before settling for second, just ahead of Central Catholic.

The star of the day for the Hillies was heavyweight Jay Levy, who pinned all three of his opponents on his way to the title while remaining undefeated. Ben Davoli, who had a big win over Central's Jimmy Glynn in the semifinals, was second at 106 and Jake Nicolosi was second at 138, losing a tough 2-0 decision to Central's Tyler Glynn.

Whittier Tech opened the Ryan Richards coaching era with three wins in a quad-meet. Returnees Edgar Feliciano (126) and Ethan Calderwood (145) were both 3-0 for their new coach and heavyweight Chris McNulty won all three of his matches. 

Newburyport girls volleyball rallied back in the fourth and fifth sets to pick up an exciting 3-2 win over Wilmington on Friday night. The Clippers won the opening set 26-24, lost the second 25-23 and the third 25-22 before winning the fourth 25-16 and the decisive fifth-set tiebreaker 15-8. Jillian Stallard led the Clippers with seven kills, Jess Rosseau had six blocks, Sydney Yim had 10 assists and Abigail Gillingham had three aces.

Triton's Paige Volpone had a hat trick as the girls lacrosse team downed Wilmington 11-10 on the road. Erin Power and Gianna Conte each also had two goals and Ashlyn Smith made 11 saves in the win.

Whittier Tech got off to an impressive start to the season by sweeping Hopkinton, Wilmington and North reading/Lynnfield, scoring at least 48 points in every meet. Angel Alicea, Edgar Feliciano and Andrew Buzzell were all a perfect 3-0 on the day.

Isabelle Comerford won at first singles 7-6 (7-4), 6-3, and the first doubles team of Jess Langston and Tina Gichana won 4-6, 6-3, 6-4, but it wasn't enough as North Andover girls tennis fell 3-2 to Wilmington in a tightly contested Division 2 North First Round match. The Scarlet Knights wrap up the season 12-5.