Duluth High School Weekly Sports Review

BASEBALL

Coach Matt Champitto's Duluth Wildcats (8-4, 3-3) enjoyed a successful week, winning two games and losing only one.

John Clark turned in a stellar pitching performance on Monday as Duluth downed Norcross 3-1. Relief pitcher Patrick Riley came on in the seventh inning to record the save for the Wildcats. Chris Rich provided the winning runs with a two-run double. David Matton drove in Duluth's only other run with an RBI single.

DULUTH ― On Wednesday, the Wildcats got another strong pitching effort, this time from Zack Erwin (4-1), who tossed a complete game, striking out four en route to a 5-3 win over Region 7-AAAAA foe Mill Creek.

Alex Raffensperger belted a three-run homer to lead Duluth to its second win of the week, a 5-3 victory over Region 7-AAAAA foe Mill Creek. John Clark added a double and an RBI for the Wildcats.

HOSCHTON ― On Friday, the Wildcats ran into a buzz saw and got spanked by a strong Mill Creek team that pounded out 11 hits in five innings as the Hawks (9-3, 5-1) topped Duluth 11-1 in a Region 7-AAAAA contest.

Cody Pugh (2-0) tossed a three-hitter for Mill Creek and struck out four Duluth batters in five innings.

LACROSSE

DULUTH ― Duluth's lacrosse teams also enjoyed a successful week. The boys team defeated Riverside Military Academy 5-3 on Monday and the girls closed out the week by pounding Gainesville 19-2 on Thursday.

David Ogden led the way for the Wildcats (5-2) with a pair of goals and Chris Gage, Brendan Eckard and Zack Consie added one each. Erick Brewer contributed three assists, and the Wildcats defense held RMA scoreless the final 27 minutes.

Chad Waldes also had a dominant performance, going 10-for-11 in faceoffs.

GAINESVILLE ―Duluth's girls traveled to Hall County on Friday and smacked the Red Elephants 19-2. Ajahna Grosvenor turned in one of her strongest performances of the season, scoring five goals. Ali Cole added four goals and three assists for the Wildcats (4-4). Paige Falkowski recorded six saves for Duluth.

TENNIS

DULUTH ― Collins Hill beat Duluth 4-1 Thursday in a Region 7-AAAAA girls tennis match. The Eagles (10-3, 3-2) Erin Ensley and Ashley Johnston posted singles victories and the doubles teams of Megan Gorham and Lina Tibavinksky and Maddie and Cassie Owensby also recorded wins

DULUTH ― The Duluth boys also suffered a 4-1 loss to Collins Hill, which is unbeaten in Region 7-AAAAA competition. Tyler Kallgren and Chris Clark got the Eagles (11-2, 4-0) off to a good start before Alec Rahmanian and Jake Inderrieden triumphed in the No. 1 doubles match and Marcus Maloney and Peyton Rushing won the No. 2 doubles match.

SOCCER

HOSCHTON ― It was a disappointing week for Duluth's soccer teams, which lost all three of their matches.

The Lady Wildcats (5-2-1) gave Mill Creek, the state's No. 4 ranked team, all they could handle before falling 2-1 on Monday in a Region 7-AAAAA match. Duluth's only goal came on a penalty kick by Erin Falk.

Mill Creek (8-1, 1-0) received goals from Lindsay Kempf off an assist by Torie Scalera and Scalera off a feed by Tatum O'Keefe.

In the other Monday match, the Hawks used a well-balanced offense to blank Duluth's boys 6-0. Six different players got in on the scoring for Mill Creek (8-1, 1-0). Matt Sinclair, Taylor Scalera, T.J. Hoppiness, Brandon O'Toole, Collin Robinson, Kenny Valencia each scored for the Hawks.

DULUTH ― The Duluth girls closed out the week with another heartbreaking loss, this time to Norcross by a score of 1-0. The Wildcats had many chances, attempting 13 shots on goal, but couldn't connect in the Region 7-AAAAA match up.

GOLF

DULUTH -- It was a picture-perfect spring day, but a dark cloud seemed to hang over the Duluth golfers who were simply no match for Mill Creek. Emerson Newsome and TuHyun Choi burned up the course with a pair of 39s to lead Mill Creek to a 161-234 win at Hamilton Mill. Duluth's low scorer was Justin Cho.