Around the region

• Sophomore Tori LoPresto (Stonington) has started all but one game this season for the St. John Fisher softball team. In a recent doubleheader sweep of Houghton, LoPresto had three hits, three runs scored and an RBI. She leads the Empire 8 Athletic Conference in sacrifice flies with four and ranks second in sacrifice bunts with eight.

• Graduate transfer Kevin Ferrer (Stonington) had two hits and an RBI for the Northwestern baseball team’s 10-0 shutout of Milwaukee. He’s hit safely in five of the last six games, raising his batting average to .260. He has three home runs and 11 RBI overall.

• At Tufts, sophomore Connor Podeszwa (Waterford) continues to be a key part of the rotation for the baseball team. He’s 4-3 with a 4.58 earned run average in 10 appearances, including eight starts. He’s allowed 49 hits and 20 earned runs in 39.1 innings, walking 17 and striking out 39 for the Jumbos, who are 26-7 overall, 11-1 in the New England Small College Athletic Conference.

On the softball field, junior Sophia DiCocco (Norwich Free Academy) pitched well in a 1-0 loss to Bates in the first game of a NESCAC doubleheader on Saturday. DiCocco (11-2, 1.25 era) gave up just four hits. Tufts is 31-3 overall, 13-1 in the conference.

• Senior Julia Bates (East Lyme) chipped in four goals and three assists for the Mount Union women’s lacrosse team in an 18-4 win over Baldwin Wallace on Wednesday in the regular season finale. Bates has a team and career best 44 goals to go with 10 assists in 14 games. Her 54 points also are a career-high.

• Senior Julia Adrian (Fitch) and sophomore Brianna am Ende (East Lyme) helped the Endicott College women’s track and field team capture the program’s first Commonwealth Coast Conference championship. Adrian posted a personal best 19 minutes, 45.80 seconds while placing 11th in the 5,000 meters while am Ende ran a leg on the 4x400 relay team that placed second and finished in a school record of 4:12.75.

• At Wentworth, graduate catcher Briana Beverly (St. Bernard) ranks first on the softball team in RBI (21) and doubles (10) while starting all 35 games. Matt Robinson (Fitch) has eight hits in the last seven games for the baseball team, raising his batting average to .263.

• Senior captain Sarah Christensen (East Lyme), a starter on defense, recently helped York College clinch the MAC Commonwealth regular-season title in women’s lacrosse. The Spartans (14-3) are ranked ninth in the nation.

• St. Bonaventure redshirt sophomore reliever Ryan O’Connell (Waterford) earned his second save this season in a 7-5 win over UMass in the second game of a doubleheader Saturday. He went 3.2 innings, giving up one hit and one run while striking out five and walking one.

• Junior lefthander Trystan Levesque (East Lyme) has gone at least six innings in six straight starts for the University of Rhode Island baseball team. He’s 5-3 with a 4.06 earned run average, striking out a career-high 76 batters and walking 11. He’s first on the team in wins, innings pitched (62) and strikeouts

• Ben Jerome (Waterford), a junior catcher, went 1-for-2 with two walks and a run scored from the leadoff spot for Nichols College in a 4-3 victory over Roger Williams on Saturday.

• Senior Ken Turner (Ledyard) has put together two consecutive solid starts for the Bryant University baseball team. In a total of 10 innings against Albany and NJIT, Turner has allowed six hits and three runs while walking four and striking out 10.

• At Southern Connecticut State University, Karlie Rowe (East Lyme) had four goals and an assist in the women’s lacrosse team’s 17-9 win over Saint Rose on April 22. She has a career best in goals (38), assists (15) and points (53).

• Central Connecticut State University senior Cam Whalen (Stonington) finished first in the 400-meter hurdles in 56.3 seconds at the Blue Devil Invitational on Friday. He also ran a leg on the winning 4x100 relay team that crossed the line in 41.92. CCSU won the meet with 184 points.

Mariners riding a wave

• The Mitchell College softball team earned the second seed in the New England Collegiate Conference Championship tournament. The Mariners (23-17, 9-3) will play No. 3 New England College (16-20, 6-6) in first-round action at 6 p.m. Friday.

Host Eastern Nazarene (19-19, 9-3), which clinched the top seed with a doubleheader sweep of Mitchell in the regular-season finale, will play No. 4 Lesley (3-35, 0-12) on Friday. The double-elimination tourney continues Saturday.

• Mitchell’s Emily Reynolds is first in the NECC with a 3.05 earned run average and Brooke Whitmarsh has a league best 42 RBI. Reynolds was named the NECC pitcher of the week after going 2-1 with a 0.40 earned run average. She struck out 12 and walked two in 17.2 innings.

• After winning the regular season title, Mitchell (28-8, 11-1) will host the NECC baseball championship, starting Friday. As the top seed, the defending champion Mariners will face No. 4 Lesley (13-23, 2-10) in the first round on Friday in New London.

No. 2 Eastern Nazarene (24-12, 6-6) plays No. 3 New England College (15-20, 5-7) in the other first round game on Friday.

Dougie DelaCruz (Montville) leads the NECC with a .448 batting average while teammate Matt Falk is first in home runs (eight) and RBI (54). Pitcher Eddie Kaftan (Old Lyme) is tied for first in wins with seven.

Tracking the Bears

• The Coast Guard Academy women’s lacrosse team will play at top-seeded MIT (15-2) in the New England Women’s and Men’s Athletic Conference tournament semifinals at 6 p.m. Wednesday in Cambridge, Mass. The fourth-seeded Bears advanced with a 13-5 win over No. 5 Smith College on Saturday. Gianna Cascio led the way with four goals.

During the regular season, Coast Guard (12-6) lost to MIT, 20-13, on April 12.

• The fifth-seeded men’s lacrosse team (5-8 overall mark, 2-4 NEWMAC) will play in the first round of the league tournament at 7 p.m. Tuesday at No. 4 Clark. Seniors Taylor Gustafson (a team-high 28 goals, eight assists) and Caleb Holdridge (17 goals, a team-best 18 assists), a Waterford High School graduate, lead the Bears in scoring.

Camel highlights

• The Connecticut College men’s lacrosse team earned its way into the NESCAC tournament with a win in the regular-season finale last week. But the eighth-seeded Camels (6-8) saw their season come to an end with a 20-6 loss to No. 1 Tufts in the quarterfinals Saturday. Senior Jared Rainville helped power the offense this season, finishing with team highs in goals (32) and assists (26). Sophomore JJ Ford added 28 goals and 10 assists.

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