What Upper Valley student-athletes did in college sports this spring

Brendan Brigham

Brendan Brigham

Jake Dulac

Jake Dulac

Jake Dulac, front, played for the University of Massachusetts men's lacrosse team during the 2023 season.

Jake Dulac, front, played for the University of Massachusetts men's lacrosse team during the 2023 season. THOM KENDALL — UMASS ATHLETICS

Maddie McCorkle

Maddie McCorkle

Pierce Seigne

Pierce Seigne

Blake Southworth

Blake Southworth

Blake Southworth played for the Northern Vermont-Lyndon softball team during the 2023 season.

Blake Southworth played for the Northern Vermont-Lyndon softball team during the 2023 season. Bob Blanchard photograph

By TRIS WYKES

Valley News Staff Writer

Published: 06-29-2023 4:26 PM

Here are some of the Upper Valley residents who played varsity sports during the recent spring season:

BASEBALL

Plymouth State (11-21) enjoyed the services of senior pitcher Trey Parker (Meridan/KUA), who was 3-2 with a 5.57 ERA while starting nine times and throwing 46 innings. … Northeastern senior Jordy Allard (Woodstock/Hartford) missed two months with an arm injury before pitching eight times for 9⅓ innings and a .579 ERA. He was 0-1 while striking out seven opponents and walking two. The Huskies were 44-16 and reached the NCAA Division I tournament. … Castleton (18-22) featured senior outfielder Hunter Perkins (Quechee/Hartford), who started every game and hit .229 with 11 doubles and four home runs. He had a .965 fielding percentage.… Seth Balch (Hartland/Windsor), a junior at New England College, made eight relief appearances for a total of 12⅓ innings. He struck out 11 batters, walked 11 and had a 9.24 ERA. The Pilgrims were 16-22. … Norwich University was 11-22 with Upper Valley residents Ryland Richardson (Windsor), Zeb Perrault (White River Valley) and Timber Russell (White River Valley). Richardson, a senior infielder, started 28 of the 29 games in which he appeared and hit .212 with 14 RBIs. Perrault, a junior catcher, started all 14 games in which he played and batted .310 with eight RBIs. Russell, a junior pitcher, made six relief appearances for two-thirds of an inning total. He had a 27.0 ERA… Ian Hedgepeth (Norwich/Hanover) appeared four times and had three at-bats for Northern Vermont-Lyndon (12-23). … Western New England (25-15-2) received a .245 batting average and 22 RBIs from sophomore outfielder Jack Loftus (Norwich/Hanover), who played in 34 games. … Stetson (Fla.) University freshman pitcher Brendan Walker (KUA) was 2-2 with a 6.11 ERA for the Hatters (35-23). He made six starts among his 14 appearances. … Sophomore Preston Hewett (Plainfield/Lebanon) appeared in four games for Vermont’s St. Michael’s College (5-30)… Senior pitcher Orin Mahikoa (Corinth/Oxbow), made three appearances totaling 1⅓ innings for Wentworth Institue of Technology (4-27). He produced eight walks and no strikeouts.

MEN’S LACROSSE

Rensselaer was 9-7 with senior captain and midfielder Nick Porter (Quechee/Hartford), who played in every game for the second consecutive season. He scooped 32 ground balls and was honored as the Engineers’ strength and conditioning male athlete of the year. … Senior defenseman Jake Dulac (Lebanon) started 11 of 14 games in which he played for UMass (8-6) and has started 30 of 45 contests in his college career, scoring twice. … Dulac’s former New Hampton School teammate, Plymouth State senior attackman Michael Fleury (Lebanon), helped his team go 14-4, starting one of the 16 games in which he played and producing 20 goals and eight assists. He earned second-team All-Little East Conference honors. … Vassar (N.Y) College freshman attackman Baker Morton (West Hartford) played 16 games and put up 17 goals and seven assists for the Brewers (7-9). … Sophomore midfielder Hill Carter (Hanover/KUA) posted eight goals while playing in six games for Kenyon (Ohio) College (15-3), which advanced to the NCAA Division III tournament, losing in its first game. … Oberlin (Ohio) College was 8-8 with freshman midfielder Dylan Hendrick (Lyme/Hanover) scoring two goals during the seven games in which he played for the Yeomen. … Scoring three times and assisting once during the nine games in which he appeared for Connecticut College (6-8) was Camels sophomore midfielder Colter Lingelbach-Pierce (Etna/KUA). … Northern Vermont-Lyndon, featuring what was originally an 18-man roster, was 1-8, outscored, 180-37, and canceled its last three games. Senior midfielder Koltin Leduc (Tunbridge/Sharon Academy) started every contest. Classmate Alex Reed (Woodstock), the team’s only other senior, had six goals and two assists. … Castleton University was 4-13 this spring and is 6-43 the past four seasons under 12th-year coach and Hartford High graduate Bo McDougall. Dawson Nalette (Hartford), a senior attackman, started 11 of the 15 games in which he started and produced 14 goals and three assists. Eriq Bowie (Hanover), a sophomore long-stick midfielder, got into five games. … Junior midfielder Brendan Brigham (Norwich/Hanover) appeared in 15 games for St. Lawrence (12-6). As one of the Saints’ faceoff men, he won 48 of 94 draws and scooped up 12 ground balls. Teammate and first-year midfielder Jack Bayreuther (Canaan) appeared in four games. … Micah Schlabach (South Royalton/Woodstock) a senior midfielder at Emmanuel College in Boston, started one of the 18 games in which he played, scoring once. … The Maine Maritime Academy (14-4) won the North Atlantic Conference and advanced to the NCAA Division III tournament for a second consecutive year. Senior Jed Astbury (Bridgewater/Woodstock) appeared in every game and took almost all of the team’s faceoffs, winning 56% and producing two goals and four assists. He also set the school’s season record for ground balls (170) for a second consecutive season. Another senior midfielder, Caden White (Woodstock), started 16 of the 17 games in which he appeared and put up 13 goals and 20 assists. … Matt Sites (Plainfield/KUA), a junior defenseman at St. Michael’s, appeared in seven games for the Purple Knights (6-7). … Dean College in Massachusetts was 10-6 with sophomore midfielder Owen Brine (Lebanon), who appeared in 16 games and had 21 goals and five assists… Hunter Grant (Lebanon), a freshman midfielder at St. Joseph’s College in Maine, appeared in six games and scored once for the Monks (10-8).

WOMEN’S LACROSSE

Middlebury (23-0) won the NCAA Division III title with freshman Caroline Adams (Norwich/Hanover) landing on the all-tournament team. She set the program’s season record for draw controls won (84) while starting three times and posting 15 goals and 11 assists. The Panthers scored at least 12 goals in every game and put up 20 or more seven times. … Duke (8-10) went 1-8 in the Atlantic Coast Conference. Junior midfielder Maddie McCorkle (Hanover) appeared in every game and had 12 goals and two assists. … Maine-Farmington was 1-11 with sophomore midfielder Lydia Eastman (Sharon Academy), who posted two goals and seven assists while starting nine of the 12 games in which she played. … Freshman goaltender Sarah Howe (Tunbridge/Hartford) appeared in 12 games and started seven for Keene State (8-11). She was 1-6 with a 15.18 GAA.

MEN’S TRACK

Franklin Pierce was second at the Northeast 10 Conference championships, aided by junior Tad Darrah (Thetford/Thetford Academy) finishing sixth in the 10,000 meters in 32 minutes, 19 seconds, a personal best. Freshman teammate Ben Gilbert (Windsor) finished 10th in the shot put at the same meet, throwing it 41 feet. … Knute Linehan (Strafford/Thetford Academy), a UVM freshman, was 16th in the long jump at the America East Conference championships, covering 20 feet, 11.25 inches. … St. Lawrence freshman Jack Simack (Sharon/White River Valley) threw a personal-best 156.8 feet in the javelin in April. … University of Wisconsin freshman Pierce Seigne (Norwich/Hanover) finished fourth in the 1,500 during a six-team meet hosted by the Badgers in early May. Seigne’s time was 3:47, and he then redshirted the rest of the outdoor season.

WOMEN’S TRACK

Grace Davis (Thetford/Thetford Academy), a junior at Quinnipiac, was 10th in the javelin with a throw of 28.94 meters during an April meet at UConn. … Kieran Black (Thetford/Thetford Academy), a St. Lawrence freshman, was eighth in the heptathlon at the Liberty League championships. … St. Lawrence senior Laken Mooney (Lebanon), had a good day during the Saints’ final home meet, taking second in the triple jump at 30 feet, 7 inches. She was also third in the long jump at 15-3. … Plymouth State junior Mackenzie Labrie (Canaan/Mascoma) set a school record in the 100-meter dash in 12.5 seconds at Southern New Hampshire’s Penmen Relays in early April. During the same meet, she was ninth in the 200 in 27.12 seconds and part of a 4x100 team that finished fourth in 52.59 seconds. … Castleton freshman Bethany Davis (White River Junction/Hartford) won the 1,500 in 5:33 at the Mount Saint Mary Invitational in late March. The Spartans won the meet, beating out eight other schools. … Sophomore Faye Stevens (Barnard/Woodstock), a Vassar College (N.Y.) heptathlete, competed in five meets and achieved personal bests in the javelin (97-8), shot put (25-5) and the 800 (2:28)… Janiah Young (Perkinsville/Windsor), a freshman at Southern Maine, earned the Little East Conference rookie of the year award by winning the 100 and the 200 at the conference championships. She was also part of a 4x100 team that recorded the ninth-fastest time in program history (48:41) at the New England Intercollegiate Amateur Athletic Association meet. The Huskies finished 19th out of 42 teams. … Colby-Sawyer finished 23rd out of 33 teams at the NCAA Division III Regional championships. Junior Anna Bieszczad (Grantham/Lebanon) was part of a 4x100 relay team that was 21st in 54 seconds.

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Lena Nowell (Lebanon), a Union (N.Y.) sophomore, competed in the fifth seat for the varsity eight during its crew season opener, a dual-meet loss to Amherst. A back injury ended her season. ... Shannon Walsh (Hanover), a Boston College senior and four-year member of the Eagles program, rowed for the victorious third varsity eight at the Atlantic Coast Conference championships. … Mary Baldwin College (Va.) women’s tennis was 5-16 with junior Hannah Eastridge (Windsor) leading the Fighting Squirrels in combined victories with six in singles and four in doubles. … Junior Joseph Patrick Osborn (Hanover) lost his lone tennis appearance for Northern Vermont-Lyndon (4-7). … Blake Southworth (Bethel/White River Valley), a sophomore softball infielder at Northern Vermont-Lyndon, started all 15 games in which she appeared, batting .313 with nine RBIs. … Junior Mackayla O’Meara (Grantham/Lebanon) played for the University of New England 7s rugby team, scoring in the season finale, a loss to Northeastern.

Tris Wykes can be reached at twykes@vnews.com.