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Ryan Sanborn's RBI sac fly in the seventh inning plated the game-winning run as No. 2 seeded North Reading won 5-4 over 19th-seeded Austin Prep in walkoff fashion in the semifinals of the Division 3 North tournament. 

Thanks to a complete-game effort by Scott Allan and RBI hits by Tom Day and Ryan Sanborn (game-winning triple), North Reading edged Bishop Fenwick 2-1 in Division 2 North action to extend the career of veteran coach Frank Carey at least one more game.

In its last regular season game, North Reading's baseball team crushed Triton 11-0. Ryan Boucher went six innings, allowing just four hits, for the win and both Ryan Sanborn and Scott Allen blasted homers as the Hornets enter the tournament with a 16-4 record.

Scott Allen hurled a complete-game, one-hit shutout, struck out seven and walked two to lead North Reading baseball 2-0 over Lynn Classical in the semifinals of the Clancy Tournament. 

Ryan Sanborn's huge afternoon, with four hits and four RBIs, helped power North Reading in a 12-9 shootout with Pentucket. Keith Linnane drove in three for the winners. Leadoff man Pat Beaton had three hits and drove in a pair for the Sachems.

North Reading’s Frank Carey set the Massachusetts record for all-time wins by a baseball head coach last week with victory No. 726. He set yet another milestone yesterday by coaching in his 1,000th career game. The Hornets won 4-3 over Hamilton-Wenham on a walkoff, two-out single to right-center by Scott Allen. It scored Colby Maiola who led off the bottom of the eighth by getting hit by a pitch. Maiola then stole second and third.

North Reading's Scott Allan used a big day to record a pair of victories on the hill yesterday.

With North Reading set to complete a game against Newburyport that had been postponded after nine innings on April 7, Allan pitched the lone inning as the Hornets scored seven times to win 9-2 in the 10th yesterday.

Ryan Sanborn delivered the game of his career, going 4 for 4 with a home run, three RBIs and three runs scored to lead North Reading past Ipswich 7-1.