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The Haverhill baseball and softball teams went 2-0 on the day with the boys beating Tewksbury 9-2 and the girls dropping Newburyport 10-8.

For the boys, Taylor Robinson went 2 for 3 with a team-high four RBIs while Chad Kimball scattered seven hits over seven innings while striking out five to earn the win. In softball action, Lisa Betances cracked a pair of triples, including a huge three-run three-bagger in the seventh, to rack up four RBIs. Katelyn Demers had the game's decisive hit as she singled home the go-ahead run as well as an insurance run with a seventh-inning single.

Central Catholic sophomore Meg Donegan took a perfect game into the seventh inning for the second time this year, but had to settle for a two-hitter in a 5-0 win at Haverhill. Leadoff hitter Briana Martin was 2 for 2 and scored twice for the surging Raiders (12-4) and Carla Borrelli (3 for 3) remained hot and knocked in two runs.

Haverhill senior Katelyn Demers hit triples in both the fifth and seventh innings and scored both times on RBIs from winning pitcher Alicia Briggs as the Hillies edged Lawrence 3-2. Briggs also started a controversial double play to end the game when she caught a line drive and doubled a runner off third base in a close play.

Pentucket out-hit Haverhill eight to three but left eight runners on base as the Sachems got the tough luck loss. Sam Morrow was 2 for 3 and Colleen Jenkins got the lone RBI on a groundout for Pentucket.

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Haverhill senior Alicia Briggs had a no-hitter denied in the bottom of the sixth, but settled for a one-hitter in an 11-1 rout of Notre Dame. Briggs struck out seven and walked two.

Lisa Betances and Katie Demers each blasted two-run homers as Haverhill cruised past Pentucket 12-0. Alicia Briggs and Kianna Nicosia each added two RBIs.

Lindsey Tomasz continued her prodigious hitting, slapping out three hits and driving in a run in Newburyport's 3-1 non-league victory over Haverhill.