The Westfield Bombers girls soccer team celebrates a 3-1 road win over Medway Friday. (Submitted photo)
MEDWAY – The Westfield High School girls soccer team ended the week on a high note, avoiding a potential road block in beating Medway on the road 3-1 Friday.
Chandler Pedolzky scored two goals to lead Westfield, and Emma Pedolzky had one.
Chandler opened up the scoring with a goal in the game’s fourth minute. Saige Smith assisted. Emma made it 2-0 with an unassisted goal about midway through the first half.
Medway cut Westfield’s lead in half, but Chandler tacked on an insurance goal. Catie Bean assisted.
Westfield goalie Adrianna Arona collected four saves.
Westfield Technical Academy 3, Commerce 1
Westfield Tech captains Angelica Chepurin and Jess Bush each recorded one goal and one assist in downing Commerce on the road in Springfield. Ari Lever also scored for the Tigers. Senior Ashley Torres assisted.
Westfield Tech captain Leillani Marsh, Kiki Serrano, Jordyn Sanders, Deajah Barbour, and Christina Mosijchuk combined to slow Commerce’s attack. Tigers’ goalie Caitlen Carter finished with five saves.
BOYS SOCCER
Westfield Technical Academy 2, Putnam 0
Darryl Reopel scored in the first half and Adam Strycharz tallied a goal in the second half on a great cross from Ruvim Vdovichenko to lift Westfield Tech.
GIRLS VOLLEYBALL
Westfield def. Mount Greylock 25-13, 27-29, 25-23, 25-17
Westfield improved to 4-2 overall, 3-0 Western Division with solid efforts from Viktoria Pavlyuk (12 kills, 2 aces, 5 digs), Irelis Rodriguez (8 kills, 15 digs), Brigid Moriarty (32 assists, 3 aces), Olivia Hadla (4 kills, 1 ace) and Maia Kelso (8 kills).
GOLF
Ware 23, St. Mary’s 1
Ware’s No. 1 golfer John Soltys and No. 4 Mason Harper each shot a 39 to lead the field at Tekoa Country Club. St Mary’s top golfer Manny Umana finished with a 50.
Thurs., Sept. 19
GYMNASTICS
Westfield 130.9, Agawam 118.025, Chicopee Comp 114.40
Kaela Johnson set the tone for Westfield (2-0) in the Bombers’ season opener, finishing first in the all-around with a score of 32.925. Johnson claimed gold on the balance beam (8.8) and floor exercise (8.725).
Westfield’s Kylie Liptak placed third in the all-around competition with a 32.65. Liptak tied for third on the vault (8.2), and finished fourth on the uneven bars (7.7) and floor (8.45).
Claire Smith topped the competition on bars (8.3) for Westfield. Smith also tied for third on the beam (8.45). Bombers’ Lindsay Jacobs tied for third on vault (8.2) and placed third on the bars (7.9).
GOLF
St. Mary’s 15.5, Smith Academy 8.5
St. Mary’s (1-3) recorded its first victory of the season with a win at Greenfield Country Club.
Ryan Sweeney led St. Mary’s with a 42. Saints’ Manny Umana had a 39; Collin Freeman and Katie Sweeney each finished with a 48.
GIRLS VOLLEYBALL
Longmeadow def. Westfield 26-24, 23-25, 25-21, 10-25, 17-15
Maia Kelso (5 kills, 2 blocks, 4 aces, 5 digs), Viktoria Pavlyuk (23 kills, 20 digs, 3 blocks), Iris Rodriguez (31 digs, 2 aces), Shelby Rowell (22 digs, 2 aces), and Brigid Moriarty (33 assists, 6 digs) led Westfield.
GIRLS SOCCER
St. Mary’s 5, McCann Tech 5
St. Mary’s rallied from a 5-1 deficit with a heroic comeback, scoring four goals in the final 15 minutes to escape with a tie and remain unbeaten.
Emma Goodreau began the rally, hammering home a penalty kick after being tripped in the box. Down four starters and playing their sixth game in nine days, St. Mary’s fought back and incredibly put home three goals in the final 10 minutes to walk away with a wild tie.
Goodreau remained on fire to net a hat trick, making it seven goals in two days. Allie Goodreau had a goal and an assist. Emma Bialas had a goal and an assist, and Erin Olearcek delivered a fantastic direct kick onto the foot of her teammate 35 yards away for an assist.
St. Mary’s goalie Amelia Willenborg made 16 saves.
“I am so proud of the determination, the pride and the shear desire to fight back the Lady Saints showed today,” St. Mary’s girls soccer head coach Pat Olearcek said. “We were physically so beat up, playing a very skilled team, that any realist would have said this was a bad day. Most importantly the girls did not feel that; they felt that they could make that comeback.”
“I asked them to show me the pride, the character and the heart I know they have and they came back and showed me that and then some,” coach Olearcek said. “(I’m) so proud these girls really care for their teammates and their school, and it is apparent every time they take the field.”
With the tie, McCann also remained undefeated.
Hampden Charter School of Science 4, Westfield Technical Academy 2
Westfield Technical Academy freshman Rileigh Sagan scored her first varsity goal on an assist from captain Jess Bush. Bush also set up a goal for captain Angelica Chepurin.
Caitlen Carter made 11 saves in net for Westfield Tech.
“The girls are generating more and more shots on goal so I’m confident it’s just a matter of time … getting that ‘W’,” Westfield Technical Academy girls soccer head coach Lyle Washington said.
Southwick 3, Holyoke 2
Kayla Russ and Lauren Kowal scored in the 34th and 35th minutes to give Southwick a 2-0 halftime lead. Jordyn Demyon tallied an insurance goal two minutes into the second half, and the Rams held off a late Holyoke Purple Knights’ rally.
Demyon, Russ, and Clare Hanna had assists.
Tues., Sept. 17
BOYS CROSS COUNTRY
Amherst 19, Westfield 42
Willem Goff finished first overall in 17:24 as Amherst swept the top three spots. Antonio Phaneuf and Kaleb Cree placed fourth (17:39) and fifth (18:10) respectively.
