Athletic Updates: May 15

Preparing for their State Tournament run, the Golden Hawks baseball team shut out Leonia 11-1 on Saturday in five innings. A six inning first inning gave the Hawks the lead they needed as Dylan Smith kept the Lions off balance. Smith also contributed four RBI's and a double. Dave Crouch and Glen DeMarrais blasted a double as well.

Golden Hawks Boys Lacrosse struggled in their final home game falling 14-2 to the Fair Lawn Cutters. Shut out for the first three periods, Mike Neville and Kevin Barry connected on a pair of goals to eliminate a complete shut out. Ben Sagerman made 10 saves in goal.

The Lady Hawks Girls Lacrosse took to the field in their final home match and knocked off Scotch Plains-Fanwood in a 13-7 victory. The Lady Hawks came out strong from the first whistle with a 7-2 lead by half time and then continued to dominate the field. Emily Wong had four goals followed by Nadia Bousada's hat trick and Julia Boccanfuso's pair. Tori Schettino, Emily Lawler, Same Kay and Emily Dominguez each had one goal a piece. Rebecca Myers deflected seven goals from the cage.

River Dell track and field boys took first place in the Patriot Division Big North Conference and the girls placed second. Chris Bang ran to a third place finish in both the 100 and 200 meters with Craig Marulis placing second in the 200 and 400 meters. Kevin Connelly took third in the 110 HH while Matt Koh threw the shot put for first place. Pat Sellers's discuss toss landed him in second with Sam Becourtney's javelin putting him in first. Brandon Jurasin hit 5-8 for a third place high jump with Brad Hoey flying 14-4 for a first place pole vault.

Over in the girls competition: Cat McQuade propelled herself to a 400 IH first place with Jill Hudson going three-for three in shot put, discuss and javelin to first place. Caitlyn Gallagher came in second in the high jump, followed by Laura Gibbons third place pole vault. As usual, the 4-x-400 team of Sam Schleiger, Cat McQuade, Paige Fernandez and Melissa Gibbons bested their own time for first place.

Over at Demarest High School, the Crusaders Tennis Team tied for 8th in the County Tournament.  In the First Singles preliminary round, Golden Hawk Dzan Harba fell 6-3, 6-4 to Kevin Chen of Demarest while Brian Balico advanced over PV's Harry Zahn, 6-0, 6-1.

In second singles, Sean Fernandez moved forward while in third singles RD's Andrew Bortnick was bounced out with BC's Bradini Black advancing. BC's second doubles team Chris Chi and Dan Gomez were also ousted out of the tournament.

In the next round of the singles matches, Balico was knocked off by Andrew McNulty (Bosco); Fernandez defeated Kevin Kim of Mahwah and Black came out on top over Kevin Cheetham (Indian Hills). Both Fernandez and Black fell in the quarterfinals.