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12<br />

Prep baseball<br />

moves to<br />

losers’ bracket<br />

By Harold Rivera<br />

BROCKTON -- There are<br />

games where you have to credit<br />

your opponent for beating you<br />

fair and square. Then there are<br />

games where you make costly<br />

mistakes and you beat yourself.<br />

The latter was the feeling the<br />

No. 3 St. John’s Prep baseball team<br />

walked away with after Saturday<br />

morning’s 7-6 loss to No. 7<br />

Franklin in the Division 1A “Super<br />

8” winners’ bracket at Campanelli<br />

Stadium. St. John’s committed key<br />

errors, including a dropped pop-fly<br />

in the fifth inning, and the miscues<br />

hurt the Eagles.<br />

“We beat ourselves,” Eagles<br />

coach Dan Letarte said. “It<br />

came down to some things that<br />

we should’ve executed and we<br />

didn’t.”<br />

With the loss, St. John’s<br />

falls into the losers’ bracket<br />

and was scheduled to play a<br />

must-win clash against No. 8<br />

Walpole Tuesday afternoon (4)<br />

in Brockton. St. John’s defeated<br />

Walpole, 7-2, during the regular<br />

season. A win keeps St. John’s<br />

alive in the tournament while a<br />

loss ends the Eagles season.<br />

Eagles starting pitcher Sean<br />

Letarte didn’t piece together<br />

his best effort, allowing three<br />

earned runs on three hits and<br />

three walks in three-plus innings.<br />

Matt Relihan pitched<br />

4 1/3 innings in relief, Garrett<br />

Siegel tossed 1 1/3 and Kevin<br />

Dewing logged Franklin’s out.<br />

“Sean was off today,” Letarte<br />

said. “I didn’t like that two spot<br />

in the first inning. He settled<br />

down a little bit after that. We<br />

were looking to get four innings<br />

out of him. Relihan came in and<br />

he pitched very well.”<br />

The Panthers scored twice in<br />

the top of the first, then Michael<br />

Yarin (4-for-5, three RBI) got<br />

St. John’s on the board in the<br />

bottom half with a RBI single,<br />

plating Alex Lane (1-for-5, two<br />

RBI) who reached on an error.<br />

Down 2-1, the Eagles<br />

claimed the lead in the bottom<br />

of the third with a three-run<br />

rally. St. John’s loaded the bases<br />

with Sean Lang (walk), Josh<br />

Cerretani (fielder’s choice) and<br />

Tyler MacGregor (walk). Lane<br />

followed with a 2-run single to<br />

give St. John’s a 3-2 lead. Jacob<br />

Bolger (2-for-5, RBI) added a<br />

sac-fly to boost the lead to 4-2.<br />

The Panthers added one run in<br />

the fourth and tied the game in<br />

the fifth on the pop-fly miscue.<br />

“They jumped on our mistakes<br />

and they scored,” Letarte said.<br />

“They’re a good hitting team and<br />

they came ready to play.”<br />

Scott Elliot’s three-RBI triple<br />

gave Franklin the lead for good<br />

in the eighth.<br />

Showing no quit, Yarin hit a<br />

two-run homer in bottom of the<br />

ninth but it was too little too<br />

late.<br />

WEEKLY<strong>NEW</strong>S.NET - 978-532-5880 JUNE 14, 2018<br />

Heather MacLean caps<br />

off a stellar career<br />

By Anne Marie Tobin<br />

University of Massachusetts women’s track<br />

and field redshirt senior Heather MacLean<br />

of Peabody capped a stellar five-year career<br />

with the Minutewomen last Thursday at the<br />

NCAA Division 1 Outdoor Track and Field<br />

Championships at the<br />

University of Oregon’s<br />

Hayward Field in Eugene,<br />

Oregon. MacLean placed<br />

fifth in her heat of the<br />

800 in 2:03.61 and finished<br />

eighth overall, but<br />

just missed qualifying<br />

for final. The top two<br />

finishers from each of<br />

the three heats and the<br />

next two fastest times<br />

advanced. Four of the<br />

eight qualifiers ran in<br />

MacLean’s heat, which<br />

featured six of the nine<br />

fastest times.<br />

“Congratulations to<br />

Heather MacLean on a<br />

fabulous five-year career<br />

as a true scholar-athlete<br />

at UMass,” said head coach Julie LaFreniere.<br />

“I’m so proud of all of her accomplishments,<br />

on and off the track. She has been nothing<br />

short of a treasure to coach and I’d like to<br />

thank her for five unforgettable years.”<br />

Previously an All-American in the indoor<br />

mile (2016) and in cross country (2017),<br />

MacLean finished her UMass career as a<br />

four-time NCAA Outdoor East Preliminary<br />

qualifier, an eight-time New England champion,<br />

and a 10-time Atlantic 10 champion on<br />

the track in addition to two individual A-10<br />

titles in cross country. She earned the title of<br />

New England Cross Country champion in the<br />

HOME AND GARDEN DIRECTORY<br />

fall of 2017 and was a two-time Atlantic 10<br />

Most Outstanding Cross Country Performer.<br />

MacLean also garnered Atlantic 10 Indoor<br />

Most Outstanding Track Performer honors in<br />

2016 and 2018 outdoor honors this spring after<br />

winning gold medals in both the 800 meter<br />

and 1,500 meter run. She finished her UMass<br />

career holding seven<br />

individual school records<br />

and a share of<br />

four relay records,<br />

three New England<br />

records and two<br />

A-10 records.<br />

In an interview<br />

prior to the NCAA<br />

championship meet,<br />

MacLean said it was<br />

all about going back<br />

to her roots.<br />

“I dad fallen in<br />

love with the 1500<br />

and thought that the<br />

1500 was the event<br />

for me and the one I<br />

would have the most<br />

growth but I’m going<br />

back to my roots in the 800 knowing I’m just<br />

as good in the 800 now than I have ever been<br />

before,” she said. “It’s not something I have<br />

to get used to and I know I am ready to go at<br />

NCAAs.<br />

MacLean hopes to continue her running career<br />

after she graduates.<br />

“I am excited to keep growing as an athlete<br />

and as a student,” she said. “I have one<br />

more year left on my masters and know I will<br />

have more time to devote to my masters program<br />

and my future passion on being a sports<br />

administrator once I’ve graduated from the<br />

track and field sport at UMass.”<br />

PHOTO | UMASS-AMHERST<br />

Heather MacLean just missed qualifying<br />

for the final in the 800.<br />

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