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Courtney Stone won the diving with a 219.90 as Andover swept all the firsts on the way to an 86-79 win over Belmont.

NORTH ANDOVER — Once the baseball postseason rolls around, it’s always nice to have an ace who reacts to the pressure like an ace is expected to. North Andover has an ace.

Mike Weisman put the clamps on seventh-seeded Belmont with a no-hitter yesterday as the second-seeded Scarlet Knights beat up on the visiting Marauders 10-0 in the Division 2 North quarterfinals. The victory advances North Andover into Thursday’s semifinals against third-seeded Reading at a time and site to be determined.

Strong team swimming allowed Haverhill to win events even though Belmont had the first finisher, winning 95-85 as a result. Connor Cronin and Phil Donnelly were neck-and-neck for second and third in the 200 IM while Mike Carbone and Max Koffman finished 2-3 in the 100 backstroke separated by just 4/100th of a second. "We came together as a team (yesterday)," said head coach George Nigro. "It felt nice to win."

No. 6 Belmont scored off a corner kick with less than a minute left in overtime to beat No. 11 Pentucket 2-1 in the first round of the Division 2 North tournament.  

Pentucket ended its season with an 8-6-5 record.

Sam Hall won the 500 freestyle and team with Jess Mancini, Kate Sullivan and Emma Cammann to win the 200 medley relay as Andover bested Belmont 85-77.

Andover swimming topped Belmont, 97-86, to improve to 8-1-1 and set up next week's season-ending showdown with Chelmsford.   

"Every single year it comes down to this meet," said Andover head coach Marilyn Fitzgerald. 

North Reading defeated Belmont 25-9, 25-18, 25-7. Elizabeth Sutera had seven kills and three aces and Nicole Cecchini had four kills as the Hornets improved to 2-0.

LYNN | Some would call it "small ball." Others would say it was opportunistic baseball.

In this instance, however, you can simply refer to it as The Danvers High Way.

The Falcons, who have become hardball masters at exploiting their opponents' smallest mistakes and capitalizing to the fullest, did so again last night | and in the process earned the program's biggest win in seven years.

Losing Northeastern Conference MVP Juliet Munroe after she got two yellow cards in the first half might have been enough to derail Marblehead High's girls lacrosse team yesterday in the Division 2 North tourney.

Brian Martin's worst fears were realized yesterday in the first round of the Division 2 North tournament.

 Defending Eastern Mass. champion North Andover held Belmont down for six innings before the Marauders erupted for 10 unearned runs in the top of the seventh on their way to a 12-0 victory.