In an Independent School league game, Henry Machnik finished with 288 yards through the air and four touchdowns to boost BB&N to a 35-12 football victory over Nobles.

Jayden Campbell rushed for a score and threw another as Brockton (2-5) doubled up Southeast Conference opponent New Bedford 12-6. Luke Turco had a pair of interceptions, the last one sealed the win for the Boxers.

In the Cape Ann League, Michael Sanchez had 12 carries for 147 yards and two scores as Amesbury (5-1) handled Hamilton-Wenham 42-6. … D’von Burcy ran for three scores as Reading (2-5) defeated Lexington 34-0 in the Middlesex Liberty.

R.J. Faessler rushed for 145 yards and a touchdown as Lynn Classical (5-2) defeated Revere 14-0 in the Greater Boston League. … Tommy DeSimone ran for a pair of scores as Saugus (4-3) defeated Falmouth 20-12 in a nonleague contest.

Field hockey

Siena Brackett netted two goals as Hingham defeated Pembroke, 7-0, in the Patriot League.

Boys soccer

Ryan Cura scored twice as Tewksbury topped Wilmington, 2-0, in nonleague play.

Caleb Green scored a hat trick while Ben Clark added two assists as Cardinal Spellman earned a 6-3 victory over Arlington Catholic in Catholic Central League action.

Girls soccer

Rachael Geniuch scored a pair of goals as West Bridgewater rolled to a 5-0 victory over Abington in nonleague play. … Lucy Irwin, Sarah Tressler, Macy Daigle scored as Central Catholic (12-2-1) defeated Beverly, 3-1. … Maggie Blosser tallied two goals and two assists while Amanda Schneider added two goals and an assist as Masconomet blanked Lincoln-Sudbury, 8-0. … Bridget Deignan and Emily Hoffman scored twice as Medfield (13-1) defeated Canton, 4-1. … Bella Owumi scored twice and Kylie Kennison notched her sixth shutout as St. Mary’s of Lynn (10-6-1) blanked Marblehead 3-0.

In the Dual County League, Abby Wilder scored twice as Waltham edged Boston Latin 2-1 for the program’s 10th win for the first time in 15+ seasons.

Scores

FIELD HOCKEY

Austin Prep 4, Millbrook School 2

Dover-Sherborn 4, Masconomet 1

Hingham 7, Pembroke 0

Newton North 4, Wayland 0

Pingree 3, Concord Academy 0

St. George’s 2, Tabor 1 (ot)

St. Mary’s (L) 2, Danvers 1

Ursuline 3, Newton South 1

Whitman-Hanson 1, Martha’s Vineyard 0

FOOTBALL

Amesbury 42, Hamilton-Wenham 6

BC High 34, St. John’s (Shrewsbury) 15

Brockton 12, New Bedford 6

BB&N 35, Noble and Greenough 12

Framingham 42, Brookline 0

Governor’s Academy 43, Middlesex 0

Greenwich Country Day 36, Austin Prep 6

Hingham 42, Silver Lake 14

Keefe Tech 8, Minuteman 0

Lowell 27, Lawrence 13

Lynn Classical 14, Revere 0

Milton Academy 24, Roxbury Latin 7

Plymouth South 37, Quincy 8

Reading 34, Lexington 0

St. George’s 29, Groton 7

St. John’s Prep 19, Catholic Memorial 8

Saugus 20, Falmouth 12

Swampscott 14, Beverly 0

Tabor 53, St. Mark’s 0

Tri-County 21, Bristol-Plymouth 8

Wellesley 17, Natick 10

BOYS SOCCER

Abington 6, West Bridgewater 5

Austin Prep 2, Dexter Southfield 1

Bedford 2, Wellesley 0

Beverly 5, Danvers 1

Brookline 1, Cambridge 0

Cardinal Spellman 6, Arlington Catholic 3

Concord-Carlisle 2, Burke 0

Hingham 2, Whitman-Hanson 1

Leominster 3, Ludlow 0

Medway 2, Milford 1

Northeast 2, Weston 2

Noble and Greenough 1, Roxbury Latin 1

Somerset Berkley 2, Fairhaven 1

Tabor 1, St. George’s 0

Tewksbury 2, Wilmington 0

Watertown 7, O’Bryant 0

GIRLS SOCCER

Algonquin 2, Hingham 1

Brookline 3, Braintree 2

Brooks 1, Dexter Southfield 0

Central Catholic 3, Beverly 1

Dedham 1, Somerset-Berkley 1

Grafton 4, Methuen 0

Masconomet 8, Lincoln-Sudbury 0

Medfield 4, Canton 1

Milton Academy 1, Rivers 1

Nauset 0, Newton South 0

St. Mary’s (L) 3, Marblehead 0

Somerset Berkley 1, Dedham 1

Tyngsboro 3, Dracut 2

Waltham 2, Boston Latin 1

West Bridgewater 5, Abington 0

Westwood 4, Stoughton 1

VOLLEYBALL

Austin Prep 3, St. Luke’s 2

Billerica 3, Lowell 0

Duxbury 3, Nantucket 1

Newton North 3, Acton-Boxboro 0

North Reading 3, Medford 0

Football summaries

AMESBURY 42, HAMILTON-WENHAM 6

Amesbury (5-1)              8    20   14   0   –   42

Hamilton-Wenham (0-7) 0    0    0      6   –    6

AM – Michael Sanchez 5 run (DJ DiCarlo rush)

AM – Christian McGarry 10 run (DiCarlo rush)

AM – Sanchez 62 run (rush failed)

AM – Robbie Dalton 7 pass from Justin Dube (rush failed)

AM – DiCarlo 45 run (DiCarlo rush)

AM – Ben Richard 48 run (rush failed)

HW – 7 run (rush failed)

BELMONT HILL 34, THAYER ACADEMY 12

Belmont Hill (4-1)           7   7  13   7   –   34

Thayer Academy (1-4)   0   0    6   6   –   12

BH – Marcus Griffin 3 run (Nick Ascione kick)

BH – Griffin 20 run (Ascione kick)

BH – Griffin 9 run (Ascione Kick)

TA – Nate Austin-Johnstone 65 pass from Arnaud Dugas (kick failed)

BH – Reis Little 30 run (kick failed)

TA – Austin-Johnstone 3 run (conversion failed)

BH – Jack Barrett 9 run (Ascione kick)

 

BOSTON LATIN 28, WESTON 21

Boston Latin (4-2)   0   14   14   0   –   28

Weston (2-5)           7    0    14   0   –   21

WE – Emilio Tanzi 8 run (Cameron Cort kick)

BL – Eric Power 40 run (Marcus Brown kick)

BL – Power 1 run (Brown kick)

BL –  August Groh 1 run (kick failed)

WE – Ryan Kirmelewicz 8  run (kick failed)

BL – Power 2 run (Evan Dalmanieras pass from Brown)

WE – Tanzi 14 yard run (Henry Weiner pass from Kirmelewicz)

 

BROCKTON 12, NEW BEDFORD 6

Brockton (2-5)          6   0  6  0  –  12

New Bedford (2-5)   0   6   0   0   –   6

BR – Jayden Campbell 2 run (kick blocked)

NB – A’Jay Rivera 5 run (kick failed)

BR – Cameron Monteiro 33 pass from Campbell (pass failed)

BB&N 35, NOBLES 12

BB&N (4-1)  0   14   14   7 – 35

Nobles (1-4) 6    0     0   6 – 12

NO – Johnny Grinion 2 run (kick failed)

BB – Sam Kelly 40 pass from Henry Machnik (Vince Snoonian kick)

BB – Kelly 20 pass from Machnik (Snoonian kick)

BB – Brett Elliot 76 pass from Machnik (Snoonian kick)

BB – Bo McCormack 3 run (Snoonian kick)

BB – Snoonian 60 pass from Machnik (Snoonian kick)

NO – Grinion 80 pass from Collin Kenney (rush failed)

LYNN CLASSICAL 14, REVERE 0

Revere (1-7)               0   0   0  0  –  0

Lynn Classical (5-2)    0   0  8  6 –  14

LC – Brian Vaughan 11 run (Thomas Nolan rush)

LC – RJ Faessler 31 run (rush failed)

MANCHESTER-ESSEX 37, LOWELL CATHOLIC 6

Lowell Catholic (1-6)       0     0     6   0   –     6

Manchester-Essex (4-3)  8   15   14   0   –   37

ME – Zach Hurd 57 run (Hurd run)

ME – Hurd 46 run  (Stephen Martin run)

ME  – Preston Potter 32 pass from Hurd (Cian Brennock kick)

ME – Quinn Brady 26 run (Brennock kick)

ME. – Hurd 13 run (Brennock kick)

LC. – Seamus Scott 59 run (run failed)

MILTON ACADEMY 24, ROXBURY LATIN 7

Milton Academy (3-2)   7  10  7  0  –  24

Roxbury Latin (2-3)      7    0   0  0  –  7

RL – Angus Leary 2 run (Lucas Numa kick)

MA – Chase Judge 12 pass from Qua’ran McNeil (Tom Breese kick)

MA – Breese 22 field goal

MA – Matt Childs pass from McNeil (Breese kick)

MA – Owen West 5 run (Breese kick)

READING 34, LEXINGTON 0

Lexington (1-5)  0   0   0    0  –  0

Reading (2-5)    6  14  0  14 –  34

RE – D’von Burcy 7 run (kick failed)

RE – Brady Comenos 8 pass from Jack Murphy (rush good)

RE – Comenos 10 pass from Murphy (rush failed)

RE – Burcy 6 run (rush good)

RE – Burcy 24 run (kick failed)

ST. JOHN’S PREP 19, CATHOLIC MEMORIAL 8

Catholic Memorial (4-2) 0   0     8    0   –    8

St. John’s Prep (7-0)      0   0  16    3   –   19

SJ – Merrick Barlow 31 pass from Deacon Robillard (Jimmy Nardone rush)

SJ – Cam LaGrassa 75 run (Nardone rush)

CM – Isaiah Faublas 80 pass from Peter Bourque (Michael Hegarty pass from Bourque)

SJ – Langdon Laws 21 field goal

ST. MARY’S 12, CARDINAL SPELLMAN 0

St. Mary’s (5-2)               0   6   0   6   –   12

Cardinal Spellman (5-2)  0   0   0   0   –    0

SM – Maxwell Parent 2 run (conversion failed)

SM – Parent 4 run (conversion failed)

TAUNTON 21, MILTON 14

Milton (5-2)     7   0   0     7   –   14

Taunton (4-3)  0   0   7   14   –   21

MI – Harrison Hinckle 30 pass from Patrick Miller (Aidan Rowley kick)

TA – Jose Touron 6 pass from Dylan Keenan (Trinley Dudley kick)

TA – Ethan Harris 38 run (Dudley kick)

TA – Harrison 6 run (Dudley kick)

MI – Hinckle 3 pass from Miller (Rowley kick)

WELLESLEY 17, NATICK 10

Wellesley (4-3)  0   10    7      0   –    17

Natick (4-3)       0     7     0      7   –   10

WE – Bronson Maccini 24 field goal

WE – Henry Redgate 1 run (Maccini kick)

WE – Max Poirier 1 run (Maccini kick)

NA – Nathan Napier 34 field goal

NA – Ben Chandler 31 pass from Jesse Gagliardi (Napier kick)

WINCHESTER 31, ARLINGTON 14

Winchester  (6-1) 10    14    0      7   –    31

Arlington       (3-4)  0     7     0      7   –   14

WI – Kieran Corr 49 field goal

WI – George Nelson 31 run (Corr kick)

WI – Nelson 57 pass from Ronan O’Connell (Corr kick)

WI – Ryan Doucette 25 pass from Harry Lowenstein (Corr kick)

AR – Kayden Mills 23 pass from Roshan Mandal (Jack Zambardino kick)

WI – Joe Guida 65 interception Return (Corr kick)

AR – Alexi Trapotsis 37 pass  from Mandal (Zambardino kick)

 

 

Decorating the inside of the bus whenever the team qualifies for the Div. 1 state final has become a tradition for the Walpole field hockey program.

Head coach Jen Quinn partook when she was a senior in 1990, drawing on posters and hanging pink streamers before eventually winning the state title. She’s been a Porkers assistant coach on eight of their 12 state champion teams, and all of them participated. Players can design however they want, though a sign on the back must read, “Honk if you love bacon.”

It’s a wonderful spectacle for coaches, a sort of coming-of-age moment Walpole players got to experience each of the last two seasons as the program broke a four-year finals hiatus. The anticipation to add their names to a long list of champions on the ride over was as thrilling as anything.

But the trip back, after losing each state final to Andover by a 1-0 score, was a different story.

“We actually started undecorating on the bus on the way home (last year),” Quinn said. “The loss is always tough, it’s never easy, but it’s just kind of how hard it hits. Some years they just want it down, they just start doing it on the bus on the way home. Other years they can’t bring themselves to take it down. … Oh my god, it’s brutal. That’s the end-all be-all. That’s the final it. There’s nothing else. We have other events too that come after, but nobody thinks of that. Pulling that down just kind of makes it all real.”

Senior Bryant-commit Kerin Birch – who started on each of those finalist teams – can recite every year the program won the state title.

It’s not just because she’s loved the Porkers since she was 6 years old, but because the championship banners line the gymnasium. Reminders are elsewhere, while some adults and classmates in the school innocently joke about how long it’s been since the program last won it all in 2016.

They might not understand the feeling of eternity that six years weighs on the Porkers. But Birch and senior defender Katie Colleran do.

“It’s definitely a bummer,” Birch said. “We’re right there. We’re knocking on the door. … There’s so much stuff all around that reminds me (we haven’t won). Even when it was lacrosse season, my offseason in the winter – I never forget about it.”

“Getting out in the state championship two years in a row is just, we need to get it done,” Colleran added. “I think about a lot. … It’s kind of been a long time.”

Teammates tease Birch, who has driven the 40 or so minutes to Burlington on her own four or five times since the last state title loss – just to remind herself of the anticipation, excitement and heartbreak she felt.

She’s a bit obsessed. But truth be told, a whole team of returning key players is fixated on righting the wrong.

While other programs use a modest, game-by-game philosophy, Walpole doesn’t shy away from a goal it’s historically achieved. Frequently.

Nine of the 10 Porkers coaches are alumni, and all 10 have won a state title. Everyone directly talks about a championship often – in both team meetings and casual conversation. There’s not one person who isn’t starved for it.

After all, these six years match the longest the program has ever gone without winning a championship. Fourteen seniors and a large handful of returners have the sour taste of losing the last two years. Quinn still feels robbed from 2018 and 2019 by the co-ed Somerset Berkley teams that won it all, too. Anticipation has built.

There’s no pressure to get over the hump – only an expectation to win. And at 15-1 with at least four goals in all but two games, and shutouts in all but five, Walpole is in perfect position. It has sat atop the MIAA Div. 1 power rankings all year, and no team outside of a 1-0 loss to Uxbridge has come within two goals of the Porkers.

“I look at all of (the seniors), they were there for two years in a row and didn’t get it done,” Quinn said. “I think this is a really big deal this year. … This year, it’s attainable. It definitely is attainable. Do I think it’s going to be a walk in the park? No. But they totally can win it.”

“It’s definitely that anticipation of revenge because a lot of us have been on the team since that first time we lost to Andover,” Birch added. “Having the same result the second year in a row, the exact same team, everything was just so – it honestly was a heart-breaker. … Everybody came back, agreed with (Colleran and I) that this is our year. We can’t lose again. We can’t do it.”

It’s not only about revenge, though.

Out of a list of traditions, Colleran can’t pick just one outside of simply being a Porker. It’s an honor that this class of 14 seniors grew into alongside each other, one they take a lot of pride in.

Winning a championship together would just be icing on the cake.

“Every single one of my coaches except (Sue Wick) was a Porker themselves and they all have state championships,” Colleran said. “It’s something they carry with them … I think of being able to hold that legacy for the Porkers and having your name on that banner. And I think we have the opportunity again this year.”

Chip-ins

Junior twin sisters reunited on Friday, both being foreign-exchange students from Belgium who attend different schools. Jasmine Royen (Hingham) and Elise Royen (North Attleboro) played against each other as their respective junior varsity teams clashed, marking just the second time the two have seen each other since arriving in August.

“That was pretty awesome,” said Hingham head coach Susan Petrie. “So glad it worked out.” …

A tight, four-team Northeastern Conference title race finally came to an end Wednesday. Danvers’ dramatic win over two-time reigning champion Masconomet – on an expired-time corner – sealed the crown for the Falcons.

“The parity in the league, as well as it being all of (the players’) first-ever league title in any sport, makes it all the more special,” said head coach Kristen McCarthy.

Milton’s Ali Drane, rear, defends against Walpole’s Kerin Birch during Walpole’s field hockey victory Wednesday. (Chris Christo/Boston Herald)