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With two minutes left in the first half, a deflected pass found it's way to the foot of Haverhill's Meredith Budds. The senior collected the ball, then dished it to Kylee Murphy who released a strike into the back of the net as the Hillies stunned North Andover, 1-0.

Led by seven kills on 14 service points from Shania Garcia and eight kills by Liliana Foucault, Presentation of Mary took down Shawsheen in four games. It was the second win of the season for PMA, now 4-1, over CAC Large schools — swept Whittier.

Alicia Habib was dialed in on her serve, recorded a whopping 11 aces to help Whittier earn a 3-1 victory over Chelsea. She also had a team-high 14 digs, and sophomore Gace Efosa had seven kills and three blocks.

Off a free kick, Emily Orciani booted it to Ali Schiebel who used her noggin to send a pass to an open Maria Popovici-Muller. The latter buried the lone goal of the game to give Windham the win over ConVal. Grace Harootian and Jess Stuckart played well on defense, keeping their goalie Olivia Gomes without a shot her way.

In the 36th minute, sophomore Denilson DeLeon booted a well-place, 25-yard free kick over the goalies head to give Lawrence a 1-0 lead. Sam Ajualip scored exactly a minute later, and the Lancers finished off the 2-0 shutout over Tewksbury.

Senior Allan Tsao scored his first career varsity goal to help unbeaten Windham (7-0) blank ConVal 3-0. Ben Wentworth (4 saves) notched the shutout.

LAWRENCE — After all of the hype, the state championship chatter, and an extra day of waiting thanks to a flood, it was time for Central Catholic to prove itself against another Massachusetts football power.

LAKEVILLE, Conn.  — The Phillips defense had the Hotchkiss quarterback scrambling for his life in a 47-13 season-opening win over Hotchkiss.

The Big Blue had a whopping nine sacks and 300-plus pound lineman Ricardo Hernandez had a 2-yard fumble recovery for a score. Adam Cohen and Kevin Milowski each had three sacks.

WEST NEWBURY — Pentucket’s Nate McGrail was focused on his assignment with the game on the line, when he heard the crowd erupt.

“I was dropped back in coverage,” he said. “Then I looked up and saw our linemen getting to their quarterback. I saw the ball come out, and I knew that was the game and we had a hard win.”

HAVERHILL — Whittier Tech football had plenty of reason to be excited following a dominant 32-16 win over Randolph High on Saturday, but the mood after was tempered after a Randolph player suffered a horrible leg injury in the third quarter and had to be taken off by an ambulance.
The injury came with 3:48 to play in the third quarter, when Randolph senior running back Charles Dillworth caught a 14-yard pass to bring the Blue Devils into the red zone. Almost immediately, players from both teams frantically started calling for the trainer, and coaches said afterwards that Dillworth suffered a broken leg on the play.
The injury resulted in a 40-minute delay, after which players from both teams offered words of encouragement before Dillworth was carted off to the ambulance. 
"It was pretty scary and I felt really bad," said Whittier senior Julio Joubert, who was among those who spoke to Dillworth before he left. "I wanted to wish him my condolences so he can get better as soon as possible."
Randolph wound up scoring an 11-yard touchdown on the next play, but by then the game was already well in hand for Whittier. The Blue Devils scored once more late in the fourth quarter, but otherwise Whittier more or less ran out the clock.
The injury cast a pall over what was otherwise a terrific afternoon for the Wildcats. The star of the day was senior Thomas O'Mahony, who scored three touchdowns and led the team with 83 yards rushing and 61 yards receiving.
O'Mahony's first score came as time expired to end the first half, scoring on a 4-yard rush to make it 20-2 Whittier at halftime. Then, O'Mahony received the opening kickoff of the second half and took it 90 yards to the house to extend the lead even further.
Finally, O'Mahony added another touchdown through the air when he hauled in a 30-yard pass from quarterback Kevin Bradley to make it 32-2. Bradley also had a 1-yard touchdown run in the second quarter, and senior Corey DeFusco got Whittier on the board in the first with a 23-yard touchdown run, his first of the season.
Randolph scored its first two points on a Whittier safety early in the second quarter.
Whittier is now 2-0 for the first time since 2009. The Wildcats are at Chelsea on Friday at 7 p.m.

Methuen soccer obliterated Chelsea 14-0. Katie Swallow had five goals and Emily Donovan and Bella Keaney added two each.

KINGSTON, N.H. — Chris Hanna scored on runs of 19 and 47 yards and Sanborn blitzed Manchester West 39-8.

Coach John Welch said he had to tabulate the numbers but that Hanna was over 200 yards rushing.

NORTH READING - First half penalties plagued the North Reading football team Friday night against Hamilton-Wenham.

Self-inflicted wounds positioned the Hornets with one foot in the grave, but it was General senior captain Cam Peach who buried the opposition.

PELHAM — Milford took an early lead and ran with it, leading wire to wire to beat Pelham football 28-7 on Friday night.

Pelham's lone score came in the fourth quarter when quarterback Peter Lawson found Brett Lindsay for a 10-yard touchdown pass. Jake Kirane converted the extra point.

DRACUT — Lawrence trailed by one touchdown with just over three minutes to play, but Dracut executed a third-and-long and added the game-clinching score in the final moments to down the Lancers 27-14 on Friday night.