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JUNE 9, 2022<br />

WEEKLYNEWS.NET - 781-593-7700 9<br />

Sports<br />

Lynnfield races to victory over Bishop Fenwick<br />

BOYS LACROSSE<br />

By Mike Alongi<br />

LYNNFIELD — The<br />

Lynnfield boys lacrosse team<br />

put an exclamation mark on<br />

its regular season Wednesday<br />

afternoon, rolling to a 15-5<br />

win over Bishop Fenwick in a<br />

non-conference bout at Pioneer<br />

Stadium.<br />

The star of the day for the<br />

pioneers was junior Jack<br />

Calichman, who had three<br />

goals and five assists and broke<br />

the school’s single season<br />

scoring record in the process.<br />

Calichman now has 104 points<br />

this year.<br />

“He’s a blue line to blue line<br />

player, and he’s the engine that<br />

makes our offense go,” said<br />

Lynnfield coach Pat Lamusta.<br />

“He’s got the talent, he’s got<br />

the leadership qualities and<br />

he’s just an all-around great<br />

player for us. We’re incredibly<br />

lucky to have him.”<br />

Drew Damiani had six goals<br />

and two assists to propel the<br />

Pioneers’ offensive attack,<br />

while Will Steadman had two<br />

goals and two assists. Mike<br />

Murphy scored two goals, Will<br />

Norton had one goal and one<br />

assist and Janssen Sperling<br />

scored one goal. Mark<br />

Sweeney notched one assist.<br />

For Fenwick, Kevin Wood<br />

led the way with one goal and<br />

two assists. Brady McClung,<br />

Anthony Sasso, Jake Westin<br />

and Nathaniel Ricciuti each<br />

scored one goal, while Manny<br />

Alvarez-Segee notched two<br />

assists.<br />

“Our offense just didn’t come<br />

through for us,” said Fenwick<br />

coach Dave MacKenzie. “We<br />

need to play smarter out there.<br />

We have these lapses where we<br />

lose focus and it kills us every<br />

time. We’ve got to clean that<br />

stuff up.”<br />

Lynnfield got the scoring<br />

started early, notching a goal<br />

from Damiani just 33 seconds<br />

into the game. Fenwick responded<br />

back with goals from<br />

Wood and Westin to take a 2-1<br />

lead, but Lynnfield answered<br />

back and went on a four-goal<br />

run over the final 3:23 of the<br />

first quarter to take a 5-2 lead.<br />

The last of those four goals<br />

— an unassisted tally from<br />

Calichman — gave the junior<br />

his 100th point of the season.<br />

The Pioneers really broke<br />

things open in the second<br />

quarter, as two more goals from<br />

Calichman and one goal each<br />

from Damiani and Sperling<br />

stretched the lead out to 9-2.<br />

Only a goal from McClung<br />

with 37 seconds left in the half<br />

broke the streak, and the score<br />

stood at 9-3 Pioneers at the<br />

PHOTO | SPENSER HASAK<br />

Lynnfield’s Jack Calichman had three goals and five assists in a win over Bishop Fenwick on June 1, breaking the Pioneers’<br />

single-season scoring record in the process.<br />

halftime break.<br />

Lynnfield never allowed the<br />

Crusaders to get close after<br />

that, scoring the first three<br />

goals of the third quarter to<br />

take a commanding 12-3 lead.<br />

Fenwick once again scored at<br />

the end of the quarter to stop<br />

the streak, but the Pioneers<br />

were able to score a few more<br />

goals and run out the clock to<br />

take home the victory.<br />

Bishop Fenwick wraps up<br />

the regular season at 8-10 and<br />

ended up earning the No. 28<br />

seed in the Div. 3 state tournament.<br />

The Crusaders were able<br />

to earn a home game due to the<br />

seeding, and they knocked off<br />

No. 37 Southeastern by a score<br />

of 15-0 in the preliminary<br />

round. Fenwick then went on<br />

the road to No. 5 Foxborough<br />

for the Round of 32, but the results<br />

came in too late to print.<br />

“If we’re going to go anywhere,<br />

provided we do make<br />

the tournament, we’re going<br />

to have to improve the 6-inch<br />

space between the years,” said<br />

MacKenzie. “If we can keep<br />

our focus, we have the talent<br />

to compete against all of these<br />

other teams. But the question<br />

for us is which team is going<br />

to show up.”<br />

Lynnfield closes the regular<br />

season at 14-4 and has earned<br />

the No. 6 seed in the upcoming<br />

Div. 4 state tournament. The<br />

Pioneers hosted No. 27 Tri-<br />

County Regional Tuesday<br />

night, but the results came in<br />

too late to print.<br />

“We’ve been trying to hold<br />

ourselves to a really high standard<br />

no matter what the score<br />

is each game,” said Lamusta.<br />

“It’s all about keeping our<br />

composure, taking it one<br />

quarter at a time and continuing<br />

to play the way we’ve<br />

been playing. There are a lot<br />

of great teams in the division<br />

IV bracket, and it’s going to<br />

be interesting to see how it<br />

shakes out. But we’re excited,<br />

we’re enthusiastic and we’re<br />

confident as we head into the<br />

tournament.”

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