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Victoria Castigione won the pole vault with a career-best 8-6 for Pentucket at the Eastern Mass. Division 3 meet. Alanna Poretta added a second in the mile for the Sachems.

Haverhill's wrestling team only took seven wrestlers to the Oliver Ames Invitational, but they crowned four champions and also had a runner-up. Freshman Paris Williams (119), Edwin Rozon (125), Dan Chory (140) and Isaiah Williams (171) all came in first and Michael Brigandi (189) was second.

Danvers High girls soccer coach Jimmy Hinchion didn't have a speech prepared for the postgame last night.

Even if he had, it couldn't have eased the pain of the 16 seniors who fell short in their bid for a state title. Meeting their match for the first time this postseason, Danvers fell at the hands of a powerful Oliver Ames team, 1-0, at Veterans Memorial Field in the Eastern Mass. final. Hinchion has delivered the season-ending speech several times before, but it hasn't become any easier over the years.

Division 2 South champion Oliver Ames came to last night's girls state semifinal girls looking to force Division 2 North champ Danvers to play their style of soccer.

The strategy worked to a T as the Tigers forced the Falcons out of their comfort zone and emerged with a 1-0 victory to advance to Saturday's Division 2 state championship game. "They play a difficult style. They don't put it on the ground the way we like to play | and that disrupted us all (night)," said Falcons coach Jimmy Hinchion.