Mike Sabin was merely looking for a place in which to coach tennis.
Wellesley provided that opportunity and the rest is history.
Sabin earned a milestone 600th win Friday afternoon as Wellesley improved to 11-6 with a 5-0 boys victory over Braintree in a Bay State Conference contest. In typical Sabin fashion, he downplayed the personal accomplishment.
“It just means I’ve been around a long time,” said Sabin, who started coaching at Wellesley High 35 years ago. “I’ve been fortunate to have a lot of kids here who care about the sport and want to do well. When I was looking for a tennis coaching job, I was hoping to find a place where the kids wanted to work and improve and Wellesley was it.”
In other action, Nik Narina, Akarsh Janarthanan and Conor Rea all won their matches in straight sets as Andover defeated North Andover 5-0 in the Merrimack Valley Conference.
Boys lacrosse
Micheal Valois (four goals, 12 of 18 face-offs), Dominic Matteodo (three goals, three assists), Jack Balfour (two goals), Maxx Smith (two goals, including his 100th) and Vinny Pinnetti (assist) fueled Mashpee offensively in a 17-5 nonleague win over Sturgis.
Girls lacrosse
In the Commonwealth Conference, Meghan Lesniak tallied four goals while Julia Canario added another three points (two goals, one assist) as Greater Lowell Tech (13-2) defeated Lowell Catholic, 9-3.
Ciara Hendricks recorded seven goals while Sophia Morin (four goals) and Claire Howard (three goals) added to a Mashpee nonleague win over Sturgis East, 14-6. … Kendall Rogers finished with a career-high six points overall, as Weymouth rolled to an impressive 16-7 win over Foxboro. … Coco Clopton (five goals, two assists), Avery Laundry (four goals, two assists), Chloe Puzzo (three goals) and Lea Beatrice (two goals) paced the Swampscott offense in a 17-5 win over Georgetown. … Quinn Anderson (seven goals), Avery Cobban (four goals, three assists), and Kyla Darmon (three goals, four assists) led Sandwich to a 21-11 win over Nauset.
Karina Bosco scored five goals as Dighton-Rehoboth defeated Bourne 13-3 in the South Coast Conference. … Natalie Van Luling registered a hat trick (including her 100th career goal) for Abington in a 12-9 win over Plymouth South.
In the Middlesex Conference, Charlize Collins netted four goals while seven other teammates added to a Burlington win over Stoneham, 16-4.
Kerri Finneran (three goals, 300th career goal) and Kierstyn Zinter (100th career goal) notched milestones, and Jackie Tattan scored three goals as Central Catholic (17-0-2) defeated North Andover 9-5 in the Merrimack Valley Conference.
Baseball
Gabe Zuber fanned 10, walked three and gave up five hits over a complete game effort, and Nathan Levesque (four hits, RBI) and Lucas Trembaly (three hits, double) steered the Apponequet (12-4) offense toward a 5-1 South Coast Conference win over Old Rochester.
In the Merrimack Valley Conference, Ben Workman tossed a one-hitter, finishing off a complete game shutout as Andover blanked Chelmsford, 3-0.
Jack Spear pitched a no hitter, striking out eight, as Swampscott silenced Saugus, 5-0, in the Northeastern Conference.
Matty Taylor struck out six and scattered four hits over a complete game, and Ty Creighton hit a critical two-RBI double to put Sandwich (10-6) ahead in the fourth inning during a 4-2 South Shore League win over Middleboro.
Softball
Elsie Testa pitched a two-hitter with 12 strikeouts, and Kasie Bailey had three hits as Abington (17-1) beat Stoughton 3-0 in a nonleague game. … Cara Facey (three hits), Sadie Steuterman (two hits) Victoria Fish (two hits) and Ellie McConville (solo home run) guided the Milton (14-2) offense in a 6-2 win over New Bedford.
Madison Nereu tossed an abbreviated one-hitter with 11 strikeouts and two walks while going 3-for-4 with two doubles, a home run and three runs scored, and Jossalyn Anctil and Olivia LaCava drove in three runs each as Wareham rolled to an 18-0 Mayflower Athletic Conference win over Upper Cape in five innings.
Seventh-grader Camryn Collier and freshman Ashlyn Brady combined for a three-hitter, with Brady adding a home run and four RBI at the plate as Latin Academy bested O’Bryant 7-1 in Boston City League action.
Lauren Bernaiche struck out 13 and allowed one hit over six shutout innings while going 2-for-4 with an RBI and two runs scored as Apponequet (13-4) took down Old Rochester 12-0 in a South Coast Conference matchup. Morgan Saraceno went 3-for-5 with an RBI for the Lakers. … Edy Latour struck out three and gave up two runs, three hits and three walks over seven innings, and Lucy Latour had two hits, two RBI and a run scored as Dighton-Rehoboth (15-3) defeated Greater New Bedford, 7-2. … Sydney Bednarz went 3-4 with a double, an RBI and three runs scored, while Emma Javier finished 3-4 with 4 RBI as Somerset Berkley (12-5) routed Seekonk, 13-1 in five innings.
Jenna Roche drove in four runs on four hits, and Brigid Gaffny struck out 10 in the circle for North Andover in an 11-5 Merrimack Valley Conference win over Lowell.
Football
Former Reading football coach and athletic director John Hollingsworth passed away at the age of 96. He spent two decades as the head football coach at the school (1956-1975), winning more than 100 games and five Middlesex League titles. He guided the Rockets to their first Super Bowl appearance in 1974, losing to Natick in the Div. 1 Super Bowl, 26-14. The football field at the school is named in his honor.
Boys volleyball
Parth Pawar dished 47 assists, and Obi Umeh had 22 kills as Acton-Boxboro beat Cambridge 3-2 in a Dual County League matchup.
Mason Cleary’s 20 kills paced BC High in a 3-1 nonleague win over Greater New Bedford. … Teddy Stylianopolous, Tri Duong and Jarvis Huynh combined for 52 digs while Daniel Imasuen had 17 kills as Latin Academy pulled off a reverse sweep over Boston Latin, 3-2.
Scores
BASEBALL
Abington 5, Monomoy 4
Andover 3, Chelmsford 0
Apponequet 5, Old Rochester 1
Belmont 11, Winchester 1
Cathedral 11, Brighton 0
Dighton-Rehoboth 4, Greater New Bedford 1
Durfee 1, Bishop Stang 0
English 18, East Boston 3
Hingham 4, Whitman-Hanson 2
Latin Academy 2, Charlestown 1
Lynn English 5, Medford 4
Masconomet 6, Gloucester 1
O’Bryant 4, New Mission 2
Plymouth North 8, Duxbury 1
Sandwich 4, Middleboro 2
Swampscott 5, Saugus 0
Wakefield 5, Wilmington 4
BOYS LACROSSE
Barnstable 14, Whitman-Hanson 6
Burlington 15, Stoneham 3
Mansfield 17, Sandwich 8
Mashpee 11, Sturgis 5
Medfield 11, Westwood 10
Monomoy 17, Bourne 5
Nashoba 17, Groton-Dunstable 6
Needham 16, Framingham 5
North Andover 15, Central Catholic 14
Plymouth South 14, Apponequet 7
Reading 16, Woburn 4
St. John’s Prep 13, BC High 3
Tewksbury 11, Methuen 7
DANISH CUP
Ch.: Bishop Fenwick 8, Peabody 6
GIRLS LACROSSE
Abington 12, Plymouth South 9
Belmont 11, Winchester 6
Burlington 16, Stoneham 4
Cape Cod Academy 14, Apponequet 12
Central Catholic 9, North Andover 5
Dighton-Rehoboth 13, Bourne 3
Franklin 14, Bishop Feehan 7
Greater Lowell 9, Lowell Catholic 3
Hanover 15, Scituate 8
Lincoln-Sudbury 13, Westford 6
Mashpee 14, Sturgis East 6
Medford 16, Whittier 3
Methuen 13, Tewksbury 8
Milford 15, Seekonk 13
Nantucket 16, Dennis-Yarmouth 1
Rockland 6, South Shore Voke 5
Sandwich 21, Nauset 11
Swampscott 17, Georgetown 5
Weymouth 16, Foxboro 7
BOYS RUGBY
Braintree 55, Hingham 12
SOFTBALL
Abington 3, Stoughton 0
Apponequet 12, Old Rochester 0
Archbishop Williams 9, Bishop Feehan 8
Braintree 10, Wellesley 0
Brighton 17, Boston International 13
Cohasset 8, Cardinal Spellman 7
Dighton-Rehoboth 7, Greater New Bedford 2
English 14, TechBoston 13
Essex Tech 8, Manchester Essex 1
Fenway 15, Charlestown 5
Greater Lowell 3, Minuteman 1
Hingham 13, Whitman-Hanson 1 (6i)
Latin Academy 7, O’Bryant 1
Lincoln-Sudbury 11, Acton-Boxboro 1
Marblehead 8, Swampscott 6
Martha’s Vineyard 22, Muniz 10
Methuen 18, Central Catholic 5
Milton 6, New Bedford 2
North Andover 11, Lowell 5
Peabody 7, Gloucester 1
Randolph 17, Maimonides 7
Rockland 13, South Shore Voke 6
Somerset Berkley 13, Seekonk 1 (5i)
Triton 16, Ipswich 10
Wakefield 4, Wilmington 1
Wareham 18, Upper Cape 0 (5i)
Wayland 5, Watertown 4 (8i)
Westford Academy 15, Waltham 3
BOYS TENNIS
Andover 5, North Andover 0
Apponequet 5, Bishop Stang 0
Arlington 4, Burlington 1
Bishop Feehan 1, St John’s 4
BC High 4, Winchester 1
Cambridge 4, Boston Latin 1
Central Catholic 4, Chelmsford 1
Cohasset 5, Carver 0
Gloucester 4, Marblehead 1
Haverhill 5, Lowell 0
Hingham 5, Whitman-Hanson 0
Latin Academy 5, Catholic Memorial 0
Manchester Essex 5, Ipswich 0
Melrose 4, Watertown 1
Nauset 3, Dennis-Yarmouth 2
St. John’s (S) 4, Bishop Feehan 1
Somerset Berkley 4, Durfee 1
Wayland 5, Hopkinton 0
Wellesley 5, Braintree 0
Westford Academy 5, Waltham 0
Weston 3, Newton South 2
Xaverian 3, Medfield 2
GIRLS TENNIS
Andover 5, Notre Dame (T) 0
Bishop Fenwick 3, North Reading 2
Central Catholic 5, Tewksbury 0
Durfee 3, Somerset Berkley 2 (1 of 2)
Durfee 3, Somerset Berkley 2 (2 of 2)
Hingham 4, Whitman-Hanson 1
Lowell Catholic 3, North Middlesex 2
Malden 5, Revere 0
Marblehead 4, Gloucester 1
Monomoy 4, Nantucket 1
Newton South 5, Weston 0
North Andover 4, Haverhill 1
Pembroke 3, Scituate 2
Wakefield 4, Stoneham 1
Wareham 5, Westport 0
Westford Academy 5, Waltham 0
Winchester 5, Belmont 0
BOYS ULTIMATE FRISBEE
Xaverian 15, St. Sebastian’s 10
GIRLS ULTIMATE FRISBEE
Cambridge 9, Phillips Academy Andover 7
BOYS VOLLEYBALL
Acton-Boxboro 3, Cambridge 2
BC High 3, Greater New Bedford 1
Braintree 3, Norwood 0
Catholic Memorial 3, Scituate 1
Central Catholic 3, Dracut 0
Greater Lowell 3, Nashoba Tech 0
Latin Academy 3, Boston Latin 2
Madison Park 3, Brockton 0
Medfield 3, Bellingham 0
Needham 3, Brookline 2
New Bedford 3, Quincy 0
St. John’s (S) 3, Newton South 2
Winchester 3, Wakefield 0
