Saugus High Sachems Sports Round-Up

By Dom Nicastro

Saugus boys lacrosse picks up first win

Last week, the Saugus High School boys lacrosse team picked up its first victory in two years. It did not have a team a year ago because of a lack of participation but is hungry to grow the program this season with a young foundation.

The Sachems beat Lynn, 7-5, last Friday night. The teams were tied 4-4 at halftime, and Saugus played a great second half to win.

“It was a big team win for us,” Saugus coach Rob Scuzzarella said. “We shared the ball well on offense and got some huge stops when it mattered most. I was really proud of the effort we got in the second half, especially after going down 5-4 early in the start of the third quarter.”

Larry Barrows made some big saves in the fourth quarter to keep Saugus ahead, and its defensemen were awesome. The coach was also really happy with midfielders Cam Preston, Hunter Arsenault, Jake Kelley and Cam Marchand offensively.

“I think Preston came off the field maybe one time in the second half; he’s been a warrior,” Scuzzarella said. “A lot of positive things to say about Jake and Marchand. Jake scored the goal to put us up by two, and Marchand has been our best player this season. We had a timeout with 49 seconds left, and we put the ball in Cam’s stick coming out of the timeout; that’s says a lot about him. Our attackmen were all good in the second half. Ryan Jones scored the eventual game-winning goal unassisted on a great take.”

Saugus dropped its other games last week. It fell to Gloucester, 18-7, on Tuesday and lost to Swampscott, 14-3, on Wednesday.

“We played a great first quarter in both games and then got ran over,” Scuzzarella said.

Saugus girls lacrosse continues hot streak

Last Wednesday, the Saugus High School girls lacrosse team traveled to Whittier Tech in Haverhill and won, 15-3.

Scoring for Saugus were: Violet Hawley with two goals and three assists; Nina Penachio with three goals and one assist; Jessica Valley with three goals and one assist; Ashley Rezendes with one goal; Mara Faiella with two goals; Aly Mabee with two goals and one assist and Natalie Justice with two goals and one assist.

The team later traveled to Masconomet, losing 15-2. Penachio had one goal, and Mabee scored the second.

The team is 4-2 after six games and has no games over school vacation week.

Saugus girls tennis knocks off Winthrop

The Saugus High School girls tennis team defeated Winthrop, 3-2, on the road.

Junior Samantha Sarnacchiaro won, 2-0. Senior Abby Enwright and junior Tameira Klempa-Brown lost their first set in a tiebreaker but won the next two. This was Abby’s first tennis match ever. She used to play softball.

Sophomore Jennifer Tran and sophomore Evelyne Meas won their first set, 6-0, and almost lost the second, but rejuvenated themselves and won the second, 6-4.

The Saugus girls tennis roster includes:

Seniors

Madison Casaletto

Abigail Enwright

Madison Riera

Juniors

Kathryn Barletta

Sofia Correa

Giselle Guillen-Zamora

Tameira Klempa-Brown

Abrianna Perry

Nevaeh Rogers

Samantha Sarnacchiaro

Jessica Scandone

Sophomores

Jessica Andrade

Malak Chahboun

Anna Enwright

Evelyne Meas

Jennifer Tran

Meghan Xavier

Saugus baseball takes third win out of four games

Red-hot like their uniforms. The Saugus High School baseball team beat Northeast, 9-1, a few days after dropping its first game of the season – 3-0 to Masconomet.

Against Northeast, Saugus built its lead a few runs at a time at World Series Baseball in Saugus.

Saugus got on the board in the first when Tyler Riley doubled, scoring one run. Saugus added to its early lead in the top of the second inning after Jordan Rodriguez hit a sacrifice fly, and Riley doubled, each scoring one run.

Saugus added two runs in the third after Connor Bloom singled.

Danny Zeitz earned the win for Saugus. The starting pitcher allowed two hits and one run over four innings, striking out five and walking two.

Saugus couldn’t figure out Masconomet’s Drew Gustafson, who held the Sachems to just one hit over six innings in a battle of Northeastern Conference unbeatens. Gabe Fales scored the save for the Chieftains.