Wednesday’s seven high school sports takeaways, with more brackets and a new North Quincy football coach

The brackets have been released.

As of 1 p.m. Wednesday, all MIAA postseason brackets were published, and the postseason was lurching forward in earnest.

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Browse all the seedings and matchups for baseball, softball, and boys’ lacrosse, as well as earlier releases for boys’ volleyball, rugby, girls’ lacrosse, and boys’ and girls’ tennis.

Wednesday also featured the South girls’ golf sectional, which Walpole claimed for a third-straight season by following the lead of senior Tori Adams, who dominated the rest of field by three strokes to earn medalist honors. It was also the MIAA’s unified track state championships, won by Natick (four-peat!) and Peabody, but more importantly, offering a good time to all participants.

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▪ With an 18-8 victory over Bishop Fenwick, St. Mary’s girls’ lacrosse reached the second round of the Division 3 tournament for the first time in program history. They were led by six goal each from Ava Nason and Shaye Denning.

▪ While making 15 saves on Tuesday in Central Catholic’s 13-12 Division 1 first-round girls’ lacrosse win over Hopkinton, senior Anne Cashman recorded her 600th career stop.

Greater New Bedford went 1-1 in large MVADA championship games Wednesday, capturing the boys’ volleyball title with a 3-1 victory over Greater Lawrence (25-22, 25-13, 22-25, 25-21), while the softball team suffered a 14-1 loss to champion Bristol-Plymouth.

Cape Cod Tech captured the small vocational boys’ lacrosse title, riding five goals from Talon Joia and four from Miles Yerkes to a 9-6 victory over Upper Cape.

It’s tough being a No. 14 seed in the girls’ lacrosse tournament. For the second day in a row, the biggest upset was a 19 over a 14, this time in Division 3, as Cecelia Tripp’s 5-point performance lifted No. 19 Swampscott to a 9-8 win over No. 14 North Reading.

“I felt like in a lot of ways, we were underrated,” said Swampscott coach Al Eaton. “We weren’t looking at it [as an upset], we felt like it was an even matchup.”

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In the barely-counts category was No. 17 Marshfield girls’ lacrosse slipping past No. 16 Woburn, 13-12, thanks to crucial second-half goals from Julia O’Brien, Clara McGrath, and Lily Hawkes, and No. 17 Hanover girls’ lacrosse nipping No. 16 Nauset, 6-3, in a Division 3 defensive battle.

▪ Junior Sasha Miller was the hero in regulation and overtime for Beverly, knotting a Division 1 girls’ lacrosse first-round match at 8-all with under a minute to play, then depositing the winner with 0.1 seconds left in the first overtime to send Beverly to the second round with a 9-8 victory. Madeline Reynolds’s 13 saves helped keep the Panthers close.

▪ As part of a 13-point outing that included eight goals, Ursuline senior Maddy Lubov kept Ursuline’s season going when she netted the go-ahead goal with 20 seconds to play in a 17-16 Division 3 girls’ lacrosse first-round thriller.

Nash Goldstein, Watertown — The 12th-seeded Raiders needed a point from the senior at first singles and he delivered despite trailing in the second set, emerging with a 6-2, 7-6 win in a tight 3-2 Division 3 first-round victory over Pope Francis.

Grace and Emily Hagan, Walpole — The twins, and senior captains, both delivered six goals as the top-seeded Timberwolves cruised past Marblehead, 21-7, in Division 2 girls’ lacrosse first-round action

Maddy Lubov, Ursuline — The senior did it for the 13th-seeded Bears in a 17-16 Division 3 first-round win, compiling 13 points with eight goals and five assists, netting the winning tally with 20 seconds left, and harnessing 16 of 29 draw controls.

Olivia O’Brien, Bedford — The junior erupted for eight goals, powering the sixth-seeded Bucs to a Division 2 first-round girls’ lacrosse win over Masconomet.

▪ North Quincy has promoted Greg Sommers from assistant to head football coach. Sommers, a 2002 alum who serves as the school’s dean of students, has been on the football staff for three seasons. Prior to that he spent 14 years on the Quincy staff, serving as varsity assistant, JV head coach, and freshman head coach. He also spent 10 years coaching Quincy softball and he has been an education in the Quincy district for 19 years. North Quincy went 4-7 last season under Ryan Craig, who stepped down after eight seasons, going 34-47.

▪ Burlington announced the hiring of Ashley Gillies as its new field hockey coach and James Johnson as cross-country and track head coach. Gillies, who played at Sacred Heart, is a speech language pathologist in the district. Johnson, a Red Devils alum, ran at Tufts and was a two-time Globe All-Scholastic selection.

▪ WPI sophomore Lucy Latour, a Dighton-Rehoboth graduate, was named to the National Fastpitch Coaches Association Division 3 All-America third team. She hit .500 with 66 runs, 5 triples, 9 homers, 41 RBIs, and 23 steals during a breakout campaign.

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Maddy Lubov, Ursuline, 8

Olivia O’Brien, Bedford, 8

Lexi Davos, Norwell, 6

Shaye Denning, St. Mary’s, 6

Emily Hagan, Walpole, 6

Grace Hagan, Walpole, 6

Cece Levrault, Apponequet, 6

Ava Nason, St. Mary’s, 6

Stella Scobbo, Medfield, 6

Kenzie Gage, Westborough, 5

Riley Halloran, Walpole, 5

Talon Joia, Cape Cod Tech, 5

Regan Kittredge, Westborough, 5

Sophia Babington, Bedford, 4

Grace Collins, Bedford, 4

Zoe Dwyer, Marblehead, 4

Emily Regan, Cohasset, 4

Ceci Tremante, Duxbury, 4

Cecilia Tripp, Swampscott, 4

Miles Yerkes, Cape Cod Tech, 4

Maddy Lubov, Ursuline, 5

Natasha Mikus, Norwell, 4

Molly Bullard, Marblehead, 20

Madelyn Reynolds, Beverly, 13

Ashley Smith, Apponequet, 12

Morgan Mueller, Barnstable, 8

Lucy Thibeault, Hanover, 8

Lilah Caplan, Swampscott, 7

Eleni Spack, Peabody, 6