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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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