The Greenfield Tennis Association is awarding scholarships of $250 each to Greenfield’s Jacob Frank, Turners Falls’ Isabelle Farrick and Frontier’s Mary Laurens, all high school tennis players who are graduating this year.
These awards are the first in what the GTA intends to be an annual scholarship program, intended to reward young high school tennis players for their academic success and tennis’s commitment to civic ideals.
“It’s more for students who have shown a dedication to the game and are extraordinary young citizens,” head of GTA’s membership committee Brian Lamore said. “We not only care for the public clay courts, we care about the future of our community.”
The three won the scholarship not only for their skill on the tennis court, but for being leaders, good students and possessing exemplary character.
GGSL
Chloe Bigelow drove in a pair of runs, Tayler Bergeron hit an RBI single and Bianca Reynolds and Olivia Lemay each had a hit to lead Camelot Cleaners to a 10-9 win over Pelletier Electric in a Greenfield Girls Softball League Ponytail game on Wednesday.
Ava Worden struck out four in the circle for Pelletier while Emmy Nash had three hits and an RBI and Emma Peterson hit an RBI single.
• Freedom Credit Union and Elks Club battled to a 4-4 tie on Tuesday in a Lil Nipper game.
Aurora Reynolds and Amelie Gauthier each went 3-for-4 for the Elks, with Reynolds scoring a pair of runs. Raine Wonsey went 3-for-3 and scored a run.
Miley Frey and Kamryn Beck each had three hits for Freedom, with Elise Laprade adding a pair of hits.
GMLB
Carter Gerry and Conner Bergeron each pitched a pair of innings and combined to strike out 11 as Denny’s Pantry earned a 10-4 win over Smitty’s Pub on Wednesday in Triple A action.
Tevaariss Hall hit a triple while Bergeron doubled and singled and Nick Ward hit an RBI single in the win for Denny’s.
Bryce Zraunig, Casey Burke and Nolan Kalinowski each hit safely in the loss for Smitty’s, with Zraunig making three impressive pop-up catches behind the plate.
• In Single A action, Leo McDonald had three extra base hits, Andrew Quintana and Noah Stoffolano each had three hits and Eli Skinder had four hits including a triple as Fitzgerald Real Estate defeated Pioneer Valley Tire, 18-17, on Wednesday.
Carson White had three hits, Jackson Puchalski drilled two triples, Jackson Baker had four RBIs and Preston Charboneau added four runs for Pioneer Valley.
Jade Cuevas singled and tripled, Josh Lashway, Jeff Gibson and Yohenny Pinentel each had two hits and three RBIs and Jake Benedict had three hits and two RBIs as the Liberty Tax Sharks defeated Riff’s North, 19-14, in a Greenfield Co-ed softball game on Wednesday.
Brian Sicard hit a home run, a single and two RBIs for Riff’s, with Seth Dellert and Nick Martin each recording two hits and Davin Ojala hitting safely three times.
Thomas Memorial
Paul Cloutier finished with the best point quota of the week of plus-7 in the Knights of Columbus League at Thomas Memorial Golf Course.
Jim Welcome, Rod Brunelle and Reggie Stevens tied for second with scores of plus-6.
Brunelle won closest to th e pin on No. 7 (3-1) while Frank Penny was the winner on No. 9 (8-10). Rod Herzig, Steve Call, Ed Baker, Stephan Smith, Slan Wondoloski and Mike Beauregard all won skins.