Redmen Roundup: Lacrosse Teams In Tournament Action This Week

Lacrosse

boys and girls lacrosse teams will both be in action this week when the State Tournaments get started.

The boys squad qualified for the Division 2 East Tournament with an 11-9 record.

The girls posted just four wins this season (4-11) but qualified for the Division 2 North Tournament via the Sullivan Rule. That rule states that for a Division 2 Team like Tewksbury, only games played against Division 2 or 3 teams are counted toward the 50 percent victory threshold needed to make the tournament. In other words, all losses against Division 1 teams are tossed out.

Both Redmen teams will face difficult first-round matchups.

The boys are seeded No. 29 in the 32-team D-2 East Regional (combining teams from the North and South) Tournament. The Redmen will be on the road Wednesday to take on No. 4 Wellesley. Game time is 3 p.m. If Tewksbury can manage to pull off the first-round upset, they would take on the winner of No. 13 Shawsheen Tech and No. 20 North Andover in the second round.

The girls are seeded No. 15 in the 16-team D-2 North Regional. They will open on the Road on Thursday at No. 2 Ipswich (13-3). Game time is 5 p.m. An upset victory in the first round would move Tewksbury into the quarterfinals against the winner of the game between No. 7 Newburyport and No. 10 Manchester/Essex.

Complete Division 2 Lacrosse Tournament Brackets for both boys and girls can be found as PDF files attached to this article.

Baseball

Tewksbury High fell short in its bid for a championship at the Lawrence Invitational, falling to North Andover (16-4) in the title game on Friday, 6-3.

Tewksbury (7-12) had their chances in this game. The Redmen loaded the bases in the fifth inning and again in the sixth but came up empty both times.

Cam Oliveira led the Tewksbury offense, with two hits and two RBI. Brad Gahagan also ripped a pair of hits. Eric Hunter doubled and drove in a run, while Frankie McLaughlin added a triple.

Oliveria took the loss on the hill. He allowed just three earned runs and struck out six in five innings of work.