Southwick’s Kayla Andrade lets the ball fly high over the Palmer defense Monday night. (Photo by Bill Deren)
SOUTH DEERFIELD – The Southwick boys basketball team rallied from a 24-21 halftime deficit to pull off a thrilling 43-40 opening night victory on the road Monday at Frontier.
Dan Scharmann led Southwick with 17 points, Hunter Iglesias pumped in 11, and Connor Roy made a key lay-up with 10 seconds left to give the Rams a 3-point cushion.
Frontier missed a game-tying 3 at the buzzer, and Southwick snuck away with the win.
“It was really a team effort defensively,” Southwick coach Dylan Dubuc said. “We turned them over a lot and we were able to get stops down the stretch.”
Bushor paces Gators
Pathfinder 28, Gateway 24
Pathfinder outscored Gateway 10-5 in the third quarter to pull off a low scoring affair in Huntington.
“We probably should have won the game,” Gateway coach Kevin McVeigh said, “but they had a better third quarter.”
Gateway produced the game’s top scorer as Nathaniel Bushor recorded 14 points. Pathfinder’s Tyler Bienvenue scored a team-high nine.
The game was tied 12-12 at the half.
GIRLS BASKETBALL
Burke nets nine in Rams’ debut
Palmer 42, Southwick 24
Eighth grader Hannah Burke scored a team-high eight points in her first varsity effort.
“We have a very young team,” said Southwick coach Mike Gill said, who saw most of his experience graduate from last year’s squad.
“We are looking to be better in February than we are today,” he said. “We’re going to take it day by day, week by week, and month by month, and see what happens.”
Gators top Tigers
Gateway 36, Westfield Technical Academy 16
Gateway enjoyed a convincing victory in the season opener for both teams.
LATE RESULTS
BOYS BASKETBALL
Sat., Dec. 9
Westfield 54, Longmeadow 48
Aidan Dunn made five 3-pointers and scored a game-high 19 points to propel Westfield (1-0) in its season opener.
WEEKEND WRESTLING – West Side Duals
Westfield 45, Smith Voke 18
Senior captain Isaac Santos (126 pounds), junior Ed Towers (132), junior Vitaliy Borodin, senior Dennis Sevastianov (160), and junior Vadim Kazimirov (195) all won by first period pins for Westfield (2-0).
Westfield senior captain Jack Yvon won by one point in a hard fought match over Justin Flores.
Westfield freshman Jack Demarinis earned the praise of his coaching staff for taking West Side’s Caleb Hogan deep into the third period.
Westfield 42, Frontier 30
Santos, sophomore Kaleb Cree (145), sophomore Cam Foster, and Kazimirov earned pins.
Westfield junior Doug Rogers and junior Kirill Okhrimenko picked up key victories, and sophomore Carlito Serrano, sophomore Mike Durkee, and freshman Cam Clausen also wrestled well for the Bombers.
