It looked as if the Mahar Regional baseball team was going to pick up its first win of the season heading into the seventh inning against Smith Academy. The Senators held on to a 1-0 lead and kept the Falcons’ bats quiet throughout the entirety of the game.

But the Falcons woke up and came up with several timely hits, scoring one run in the seventh to send the game into extra innings. In the top of the eighth, they added another to go up 2-1. Harrison LaFlamme, who pitched all eight innings, slammed the door shut in the bottom of the frame to give Smith Academy a 2-1 comeback win on Tuesday afternoon in Orange.

Robert Slysz and Callan Payne tallied three hits apiece for the Falcons, with Payne driving in one of the big runs in the final two frames. LaFlamme added a base hit as well and Jake Wilcox came around to score a run. LaFlamme finished with 12 strikeouts and walked only two on the mound.

Smith Academy (2-7) snapped a five-game losing streak with the win, and will look to keep things rolling with two more contests coming this week.

Smith Voc 2, St. Mary’s 0 — Another game, another Vikings win and another James Lavallee gem on the mound. Lavallee struck out nine in 6 2/3 scoreless innings, and the two runs Smith Voc scored in the top of the first were enough to get the job done.

Kaleb Jorritsma and Gavin Kukucka (two hits) each drove in a run for the Vikings (9-0) while Jared Baer and Brayden Kukucka hit safely in the victory.

Greenfield 7, Hampshire 0 — Arthur Fitzpatrick was dominant for the Green Wave, striking out nine and only allowing four hits as the young Raiders squad struggled to score in Greenfield on Tuesday.

Jacob Sicard knocked two hits while Phil Morin added a base hit for Hampshire.

Softball

Frontier 8, Taconic 1 — The Redhawks broke the game open in the fifth and sixth innings, turning a 3-1 lead into an 8-1 edge in the blink of an eye – propelling them to a Franklin County League West victory in Pittsfield on Tuesday.

Skyler Steele and Olivia Machon ripped three hits apiece for Frontier, Raine Wonsey had two hits including a double and Lu Fifield tripled. Wonsey didn’t allow a single walk and surrendered just one run while striking out five in the circle.

Hopkins 15, Monson 5 — The wins just keep on piling for the Golden Hawks, which captured a 10th straight on Tuesday afternoon in Hadley to improve to 11-2 on the year.

Lily Ellia (four), Maggie Potter (three) and Cassandra Dion (three) combined to score 10 Hopkins runs. Dion singled twice, doubled and drove in three runs, Olivia Earle singled, doubled and had three RBIs and Cora White hit a home run to pace the offense. Dion struck out six in the circle for the Hawks.

Belchertown 16, Pathfinder 2 (5) — For the fourth straight game, the Orioles scored at least 14 runs and won as Tuesday they stomped on Pathfinder in Palmer.

Belchertown (6-2) next hosts Renaissance on Thursday looking for a fifth consecutive victory.

Boys lacrosse

Wahconah 10, South Hadley 9 — A trip to Dalton ended in heartbreak for the Tigers, which dropped their third straight game in a nail-biter on Tuesday evening.

South Hadley (2-7) next travels to Amherst on Friday afternoon at 4:30 p.m.

Girls lacrosse

Amherst 18, Granby 12 — It was quite the head-to-head matchup between the Hurricanes’ Ava Carey and the Rams’ Kalli White on Tuesday, as Carey recorded nine goals and two assists while White tallied 10 goals. Amherst had too much firepower as it swept the season series against Granby.

Kiko Bhowmik scored three goals and dished out five assists, Sylvia Walker added two goals and Eden Polek made six saves to help the ‘Canes.

Granby’s Kelly-Lynne Kennedy (three assists) and Ava-Elizabeth Lougman (one assist) each scored a goal and Faith Ramos made five saves in the loss.

Hampshire 12, McCann Tech 3 — Rylie Simmons’ hat trick helped the Raiders get past the Hornets on Tuesday, snapping Hampshire’s three-game losing streak.

Reese O’Connell and Ryleigh Fennessey each nabbed a pair of goals for the Raiders while Dana Warren, Holly Kowalczyk and Breighlyn O’Brien secured single strikes.

Boys tennis

Northampton 5, Ludlow 0 — It didn’t come easy, but the Blue Devils won all five matches on Tuesday to pick up a sweep victory over the Lions to improve to 5-1.

Reilly Fowles (first singles) won 6-0, 6-1, Durrell Patrick (second singles) grabbed a 7-5, 6-3 triumph and Ollie Levine (third singles) earned the 6-2, 6-1 victory. In doubles play, Kaz Sugihara and Reed O’Connor (6-1, 6-0) won at the No. 1 spot while Eli Wool and Emiliano Hidalgo (6-2, 6-3) won at No. 2.

Frontier 5, Palmer 0 — The Redhawks got back in the win column on Tuesday, improving to 7-1 with a sweep over the Panthers in South Deerfield. 

Casey Bestler (6-0, 6-0), Brayden Reipold (6-0, 6-0) and Anthony Lionardi (6-0, 6-0) each cruised to singles wins while Xavier Fripp and Noah Nichols (6-1, 6-1) and Liam Wells and Oliver Brown (6-3, 6-0) earned victories in doubles for Frontier. 

Girls tennis

Amherst 5, Pope Francis 0 — Not one of the Hurricanes’ three singles players dropped a single game on Tuesday, helping them to a sweep of the Cardinals in an independent match in Amherst.

Katie Gromacki (first), Emma Learned-Miller (second) and Mahina Ganesun (third) all won 6-0, 6-0, while the first doubles pair of Daniella Sherman and Aliya Osman earned a 6-2, 6-2 victory and the second doubles tandem of Janaki Ewoton and Cynthia Tian cruised to a 6-2, 6-0 triumph.

St. Mary’s 3, Frontier 2 — The Saints swept the singles matches to defeat the Redhawks in Westfield on Tuesday. 

Esther Ehle and Aylen Shaw won in No. 1 doubles (4-6, 6-1, 6-3) while Brooke Charest and Hailey Fernandez took No. 2 doubles (6-3, 6-4) for Frontier. 

Boys volleyball

East Longmeadow 3, Granby 1 — The Spartans remained perfect this season (12-0) following their four-set, match victory over the Rams. Granby fell in the first set, 25-19, but responded with a 25-18 win in set two, however East Longmeadow took the final two sets to drop the Rams to 8-3 overall.

Daniel Santiago (11 kills, four digs, assist, two aces), Brandon Chatel (seven kills, block, 11 digs, ace) and Nathan Walsh (block, six digs, 33 assists, two aces) all put together strong performances for Granby in the defeat.

Track

Frontier 90, Mohawk Trail 55 (girls) — In a meet that will go a long way to deciding the Intercounty title, the Redhawk girls walked away with a 90-55 victory. 

Winners for the Frontier girls were Lilly Novak in the shot (31 feet, 11.75 inches) and discus (104-1), Hannah Davis in the long jump (15-1) and 100 hurdles (17.5 seconds), Maia Christensen in the high jump (4-10), Elsa Brown in pole vault (7-6), Josie Fosnot in the 400 (65.0), Maddie Antes in the 400 hurdles (75.0), Addie Morrey in the 800 (2:34.8) and Sylvie DiBarolomeo in the 2 mile (12:24). The Redhawks won the 4x400 relay (4:28.3). 

Frontier 84, Mohawk 59 (boys) — Garrett Dredge won the triple jump (37-6.5) and long jump (18-10.5) while Ben Cachiguango took the 110 hurdles (15.9) and 400 hurdles (61.3) in the Redhawks’ victory over the Warriors in South Deerfield Tuesday. 

Rounding out the Frontier winners were Ezra Rich in the shot put (36-9.5), John Reloj in the discus (120-6), Adrien Pazmandy in the pole vault (10-6) and 400 (53.4), Gus Radner in the mile (5:14), Charles Dennis in the 800 (2:16) and Evan Hedlund in the 2 mile (9:56.2). The Redhawks won the 4x400 relay (3:45.7).