Westfield State’s Grace Poplawski was honored as the Owl athletics Female Senior Scholar Athlete of the Year this week. 

The Scholar Athlete Award recognizes the four-year student athletes who maintained the highest cumulative grade point average. Poplawski — a Mohawk Trail alum — graduated from Westfield State in the fall with a degree in elementary education and was a four year member of the Owls’ cross country and track and field teams. 

During her time at Westfield State, Poplawski was part of four straight MASCAC championship women’s cross country teams and on the track, she helped lead the Owls to conference indoor and outdoor titles in 2024, running a career best time of 19 minutes, 40.56 second in the 5,000 meters.

Since graduating, Poplawski has started her teaching career and is coaching in the ‘Girls on the Run’ program.

Tyler Dubreuil earns All-LEC honors

Tyler Dubreuil put up impressive numbers on the baseball diamond during his time at Mohawk Trail and Frontier and that has carried over during his college career at Castleton. 

The junior infielder from Shelburne Falls finished the season with a .333 batting average, knocking 43 hits, driving in 27 runs and scoring 30 times himself. He was second in the LEC Conference with 21 steals, recorded 96 putouts and two assists in the field and had a fielding percentage of .980. 

Those numbers helped Dubreuil be named to the LEC All-Conference Third Team, the first time Dubreuil has been named to an All-Conference team. 

Golf

Crumpin-Fox Senior Open 2-Ball

Crumpin-Fox Club held its Senor Open 2-Ball Tournament on Wednesday, with Dean Godek and Chris Ferriter taking first with a score of 68. 

John Fasick and Chris Ferriter came in second (70) while Jon Shea and Ron Lowe settled for third (73). 

Bob Bergeron and Rich Carroll shot the low net (62) followed by Peter Jenkins and Dan Emery (64) and Greg Laughran and Mike Cove (73). 

Joe Cocco and Joe Whalen won skins on No. 2, Peter Jenkins and Dan Emery won skins on No. 9 while Jon Shea and Ron Lowe won skins on No. 17. 

K of C League

Kyle Norwood set the pace at the Knights of Columbus Golf League at Thomas Memorial on Wednesday, posting the top point quota of plus-8, just ahead of Darren Lenois in second place (plus-6).

Norwood shot 2-under 33 for the low gross, while Bob Bourbeau and Rod Demers won skins. Demers was closest to the pin at No. 7 (8-11) and Rick Greene was closest at No. 9 (3-9).

Thomas Women’s League

Sally Malloy shot the low gross of 44 while Hilda Worden carded the low net of 29 in the Thomas Women’s League at Thomas Memorial Wednesday. 

Deb Demers won closest to the pin on No. 7 (five feet, four inches). 

Youth softball

GGSL

Freedom Credit Union 5, Sandri 0 – Adeline Ebbighausen and Ayla Doherty both went 4-for-4 in the win for Freedom on Wednesday.

Sophia Flores had three hits while Kinslee Gebo-Lutenegger added two hits for Sandri.

Youth baseball

GMLB

Lundgren Honda 6, Liberty Tax 6 – Brock Puchalski slashed three hits, while William Simanski and Joseph Locke each had two hits for Lundgren in a 6-6 AAA Division tie on Wednesday.

Liberty Tax was led by Ben Trombley’s three hits, in addition to strong offense from Cam Santerre and Jack Barrett.

Sweet Lucy’s Bakeshop 20, Parody Builders 16 — Dexter Fioery had an unassisted triple play and added four hits while Griffin McCloud had four hits in Sweet Lucy’s Rookie win Tuesday. 

Brady Bernard and Griffin Hampton both had three hits for Parody. 

Adult softball

Greenfield coed

Liberty Tax Sharks 18, Common Ground Fitness 17 – Ray Sylvester had four hits and five RBIs, including a walk-off single in the bottom of the seventh inning to lift the Sharks on Wednesday.

Other Sharks to have big nights included Jacob Christi (4H, 2B, 4 RBIs), Che Christi (3H), Kristine Given (3H, 2B, 2 RBIs), Cody Willor  (3H, 2B), Trevor Thomas (2H, 3B), Marcy Conway (2H, 2B, 3 RBIs), Bobbi Morey (2H, 2B), Kyle Conway (2H), and Mark Giovinazzi (2H, 2B).

Common Ground was led by Ed Morley (4H, 3 RBIs), Jake Perkins (3H, 2B, 2 RBIs), Matt Welcome (3H, 2B, 2 RBIs), Dustin Underwood (3H, 4 RBIs), Amanda Sanderson (2H), and Britt Senn (2H).