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Surprising North Andover will be playing for its first sectional volleyball title Monday (4:30 p.m.) at Westford Academy.

The Knights (11-4), who were 12-68 since the program started in 2016, earned that right by defeating Winchester 3-1 in Friday's North semifinals.

The surprising North Andover volleyball swept Lowell Catholic to advance to the North semifinals Friday at Winchester. Liam Ross led the Knights (10-4) in kills (13) and digs and also had five aces. 

An 0-10 Methuen volleyball squad had its bus break down en route to Boston Latin Academy. Methuen lost Game 1 but pulled the stunner for a 3-1 win over a BLA squad which was 8-8. Starring in the preliminary round tourney shocker were Chris Huynh, Randy Reyes, Davy Faulkner, Andrew Lussier and Mitchell Crowe. Coach Matt Twomey said, "It was a crazy day."

Jacob Colon had 37 assists and four aces and Andrew Jones added 14 digs as North Andover volleyball upset St. John's Prep, 3-1, in the North first round.

GOFFSTOWN, N.H. — A perfect season had a perfect finish for the Windham High boys volleyball team on Saturday.

Windham's unbeaten volleyball zoomed into the state finals with a sweep of Winnacunnet to improved to 18-0. Jeff Draper led the Jaguars with 15 kills and Kyle Gschwend had 35 assists. Windham will face Goffstown in Saturday's championship game at a site to be determined. Goffstown defeated Timberlane 3-1 in the other state semifinal.

Sean McCarthy scored team-highs in kills (21), blocks (5), service points (16) and aces (4) as Central Catholic edged Methuen 3-2, winning the decisive set 17-15.

The beat goes on for the Windham volleyball team. The Jaguars improved to 17-0 with a 3-1 quarterfinal victory over Hollis-Brookline as Jeff Draper had 12 kills and Kyle Gschwend had 35 assists. They'll be at Winnacunnet at 5 p.m. Thursday in the semifinals. 

Jyles Amirault led with 16 kills and six aces and Marco Gomez-Cabo added five blocks as Andover volleyball beat North Anodver 3-0.

Matt McCloskey scored team-highs in kills (14) and blocks (5) as Salem beat rival Pinkerton 3-1 in the Division 1 preliminary round. Kai Esker-Greenhalge added 26 assists for the Blue Devils, who will play Timberlane in the quarterfinals on Tuesday (6 p.m.)

Tate Thompson had 11 kills as Pinkerton shut out Londonderry on Senior Night to finish the regular season at 11-3.

Connor Buscema had 19 kills, four aces and nine digs and Brian Wrenn added nine digs as Haverhill volleyball swept Billerica.

The Windham boys volleyball team finished the regular season undefeated (13-0) with a sweep of Keene. Jeff Draper had 12 kills and three blocks for the Jaguars and Braeden Manti served six aces.

Andover started seven seniors on Senior Night and they all delivered in a 3-0 sweep of Methuen. Akshay Godhani had 37 assists, Zach Dutton led in service points and Edward Lai had 14 digs.

Andover senior Jyles Amirault recorded a personal-high 38 kills in a 3-1 win over Methuen. Akshay Godhani had 43 assists. Methuen's Ramsis De Los Santos had seven blocks and 12 service points.