Roundup: Marblehead softball powers past Gloucester

The Marblehead softball team had its own fireworks Saturday at the middle school field during a 10-5 win over Gloucester.The Magicians hit four home runs – all of them over the fence – and three of them were by catcher Emily Messinger, who basically did it all.Messinger knocked in six runs with her homers – a solo job, a three-run jack, and a two-run job. Also going deep was centerfielder Rachel McKay, who was 2-for-4. Olivia Vener was also 2-for-4.Messinger also threw out two Gloucester baserunners.Pitcher Michaela LeBlanc won her seventh game of the season, striking out seven. The Magicians (7-4, 7-2) jumped to a 5-0 lead in the first inning.St. Mary’s 19, North Shore 3At Middleton, the Spartans (7-3) took out last Friday’s tough loss to Spellman on the Bulldogs, with Alison Butler going 5-for-5 with four RBI and Cassi LaFauci going 3-for-4 with two RBI. Mia Nowicki and Jordan D’Orsi combined for 11 strikeouts with only one walk. The game lasted five innings.BOYS LACROSSELynnfield 13, Matignon 4At Matignon, Blake Strader and Matt Boehner had four goals and two assists each. Danny Sullivan had two goals and Andrew Crampe had two goals and three assists.The Pioneers are 5-6.Revere 10, Lowell Cath. 1At Revere, coach Mike Guanci credited his defense with playing a great game as the Patriots raised their record to 6-4 (4-2).”All of them (Matt Roncevich, Ben Digiulio, Mike Ciambelli, Ilyass Abdou and Chris Venezia) played great defense,” Guanci said.On offense, Brian McNitt had three goals and an assist, helped along by Adam Comeau (2 goals), Kyle Gotham (goal and an assist), and Mike Dreezsen (goal). Jay Seigal and Stephen Piazza had multiple ground balls to help in the win.GIRLS LACROSSELynnfield 16, Georgetown 15At Lynnfield, one day after setting a team record with 20, the Pioneers did one better, notching 21 draw controls.Tied 6-6 at halftime, the Royals went up, 14-10, with just under 12 minutes left in the half. But Lynnfield rattled off four goals over seven minutes and tied the game at 14.After another Royals score, Lynnfield scored twice within the next minute to take the lead back.Sophomore Paige MacEachern again dominated the draws with 17.Senior captain Kate Lucich had five goals and captain Jess Miles added four. Freshman Meryl Braconnier added two.Goalkeeper Jess Folkins made 14 saves.TRACKFour Swampscott athletes competed at the Weston Twilight Invitational, with two coming home winners.Senior Melinda Wilson won the girls discus with a throw of 122-1, which is her lifetime personal best in the throw, and senior Rob Seymour was fifth in the boys shot put with a throw of 51-41/4.Senior Peter Hale won the boys two-mile with an outdoor personal best time of 9:19.25, which is currently the fastest two-mile time in the state. Junior Matt Mahoney placed eighth in the two-mile with a lifetime personal best of 9:37.12.At the New England Catholic Invitational at Bishop Feehan, the Fenwick boys and girls teams finished third and fourth, respectively.For the Crusader boys (50 points overall), top performers were: Charlie Maistrellis, first in 200 (23:56) and fifth in long jump (18-6 1/2); Pat Corcoran, first, shot put (48-1 1/2) and sixth in discus; Dan Deschenes, second, 400 (52.88); Bryan Mendes, third, 2-mile (10:20); 4×100 relay, third, 47:29 (Maistrellis, Deschenes, Nick Tambini, Alex Heroian).For the Crusader girls (55 points overall), top performers were: Senior captain and Lynner Maggie Lepley, won javelin (107-1) and second in shot put (31-7 1/2); 4×4 relay, won, 4:26 (Hannah Smith, Caitlyn Parrot, Julia Pierce, Andrea Klos).Fenwick and St. Mary’s also competed in the CCL Freshman-Sophomore Meet at Archbishop Williams on Saturday.Top performers for the Crusader girls (89 points, second place overall) were: Colleen Corcoran, 24 points on three second places, in the 100 (13:11), 200 (27.0) and high jump (4-6); Lindsay Haley, won 400 hurdles (79.8); Jackie Edgett, won mile (5:56); Sydney Packard, won 800 (2:26); 4×4 rela