Westfield’s Mackenzie Millikan leads the way on the team’s winning 4×400 meter relay team at Smith College in Northampton late Friday. (Photo by Chris Putz)
NORTHAMPTON – The Westfield High School girls’ indoor track and field team is off and running.
Westfield defeated Central 70-24 late Friday evening to improve to 3-0. Mackenzie Millikan won the mile (6:15.18) and helped the 4×400 relay team (Millikan, Abby McCarthy, Katrina Arona, Kyra Schoenfeld) finish first for the Bombers.
Jessie Pratt (55-meter dash, 7.76), Morgan Sanders (55-meter high hurdles, 9.35), Julia Santangelo (600-meter run, 1:57.32), Allyson Morin (1000 meters, 3:17.97), Julie Guarente (2 mile, 14:09.02), and Emily Ann Andrews (high jump, 4-6) all won for Westfield.
Morin recently committed to the University of Massachusetts-Amherst as a Division 1 NCAA incoming cross country and track and field athlete in fall 2014.
BOYS’ ICE HOCKEY
Groton-Dunstable 3, Westfield 1
Chris Sullivan scored the lone goal on a power play for Westfield, which fell to 2-2-2 overall with the loss at Amelia late Friday night. Conner Sullivan and Mike Santinello assisted on the play.
GIRLS’ HOOPS
Gateway 45, Commerce 38
Chelsea Derrig scored a team-high 14 points to lead Gateway to its fourth straight victory, following an 0-2 start to begin the 2013-14 regular season. All four Gators’ wins came last week (vs. Commerce, Dean Tech, St. Mary, Pioneer Valley Christian School).
Gateway (4-2), which is in the midst of playing seven games in nine days, next plays at Pathfinder Tuesday night at 6:30 p.m.
GIRLS’ ICE HOCKEY
Leominster 3, Cathedral 1
Annie D’Mario scored Cathedral’s only goal on a pass from Katelyn Joyal. Lilly Delaney scored a second- and third-period goal to help spur a Leominster rally.
Cathedral goalies Lexi Levere (no goals allowed) finished with seven saves, and Kaylee Basile had five.
GIRLS’ HOOPS
Southwick-Tolland 41, Turners Falls 28
Jackie Maziarz (10 points), Mackenzie Sullivan (9), and Ashley Shea (7) led Southwick, which improved to 7-0 with Friday night’s victory.
“Our team came out a little flat, but it was a very team-oriented game,” Southwick assistant coach Rick Harriman said. “Everyone had a hand in helping us overcome (a lack of emotion).”
JV RESULTS
Southwick 44, Turners Falls 26
Alyssa Cournoyer had eight points, and Amber Nobbs and Stephanie Devine each chipped in seven for Southwick.
“It was one of the better teams we played even though the (score) doesn’t show it,” said Harriman, the team’s JV head coach. “Our shots fell; theirs didn’t. It was a tough team and a good test.”
