SCHOOL ROUNDUP: Lion girls hitting the right notes

Coming off a 3-2 road win over Boston Latin on Wednesday afternoon, the Newton South girls tennis team claimed its second straight Dual County League victory, a 3-2 triumph at Concord-Carlisle.

Junior Lauren Hollender swept to victory at first singles over senior Liz Yates (6-3, 6-2), the first doubles team of Stacey Eisenberg and Marissa Mamon beat senior Charlotte Ehrlich and freshman Nat Collins (6-1, 6-2), and Jilli Schwartz slipped by senior Steph Lehman (6-4, 3-6, 6-4) at third singles.

Hollender and the first doubles tandem resume play in the North section of the State Individual tournament Saturday at 9 a.m. at Lexington High. The Lions (6-5, 6-5 DCL) then visit Tyngsboro Sunday morning at 10 a.m. at Greater Lowell Technical High School.

Boys Lacrosse
Wellesley 7, North 3
Juniors Mike Lopez and Nick Toyias and sophomore Mike Vaglica each scored once for Newton North, but host Wellesley scored the last three goals to turn a 4-3 halftime lead into a 7-3 victory in Bay State Conference boys lacrosse action yesterday afternoon.

Wellesley jumped out to a 3-0 lead at the end of the first quarter before the Tigers scored all three of their goals in the second quarter to make it 4-3 at the break. But Wellesley tallied once in the third and twice more in the fourth while holding the Tigers scoreless in the second half.

``We were still in the game at the end of the third quarter,'' said North coach Bussy Adam. ``Wellesley had some excellent players with sharp stick skills but we shot ourselves with some turnovers at some critical times. The effort is always there, the guys work extremely hard, but we just had a few stick-skill mistakes, whether it was an errant pass or a dropped ball, and we we played a little too much defense down the stretch.''

Senior goalie Dan Monahan continued his strong play in net, saving 11 shots.

``He's bailed us out a lot this year with great saves and he played consistently well again (yesterday),'' said Adam of Monahan. ``He was clearing the ball well and starting the transition game.''

North (10-8) visits BSC foe Needham Monday at 4 p.m.