Seventy-one golfers played in the Kelli Martin Memorial Golf Tournament to Fight Cancer on Saturday at Thomas Memorial Golf & Country Club, with Marshall Sisson, Jake Sisson, David Kalinowski and Jason Grader taking first with a score of 58. 

Chet Czernich, Eric Czernich, Brian Peters and Charlie Peters finished in second. In closest to the pin Dave Dion won on No. 7, Brian Fuller won on No. 9, Bob Beaushene won it on No. 16 and Peters took it on No. 18. 

The tournament raised $3,620 for the American Cancer Society. 

Mass Golf Junior Am 

Stroke play of the 105th Junior Amateur Championship got underway on Monday at GreatHorse in Hampden, with Gunnar Moore of Conway finishing the day tied for 14th place. 

Moore, representing the Country Club of Greenfield, shot 73 in his opening round to finish 1 over par. The second round of stroke play will get underway on Tuesday before match play begins on Wednesday, with the top 16 from stroke play qualifying. 

Mass Am Public Links
Qualifier

Nineteen golfers qualified for the Mass Amateur Public Links Championship last week, one of which being a Crumpin-Fox representative. 

Michael Williams, representing Crump, shot a 74 in his qualifying round, putting him in a tie for third place on the day and earning him a spot at the Championship Proper. The Mass Amateur Public Links Championship will take place on Aug. 7-8 at Olde Scotland Links in Bridgewater. 

CCG

Bill Erman and Paul Viens (50.5 points), Bob Ferris and Vinnie Melendez (48.5) and Frank McDonald and Art Belanger (47.5) were the top pairings in the Greenfield Elks League at the Country Club of Greenfield last week. 

Sean Coughlin won closest to the pin on No. 2 (30 feet, four inches) while Pete Kuzmeskus won it on No. 5 (6-5).

Baseball

Junior Legion 

Greenfield Post 81’s Junior Legion team traveled out to Middleboro High School to compete in the Massachusetts American Legion Department Junior Tournament, where it went 0-2 over the weekend. 

Post 81 opened things up on Saturday against Pittsfield, where it suffered a 12-2 loss. On Sunday, playing in an elimination game against Middleboro, Caleb Thomas was dealing on the mound, going seven-and-two-thirds innings on the mound to force extras with the game tied, 1-1.

Thomas was pulled after he hit his pitch count and Post 81 was unable to get the winning run across, with Middleboro walking the game off in the ninth to knock Greenfield out of the double-elimination tournament. 

Luca Siano had the lone RBI on the day for Post 81. 

“We played very well on Sunday,” Greenfield coach Alex Siano said. “The Middleboro pitcher pitched an excellent game and we couldn’t get that timely hit. We were solid all day on defense. A bounce here or there and it’s a different game. That’s baseball – sometimes it doesn’t go your way.

“On Saturday we played a very strong and well coached Pittsfield team,” Siano continued. “You have to really be on your game to play with them. We got off to a slow start and never really recovered. The kids kept fighting but it was an uphill battle.” 

It wasn’t the ending Post 81 dreamed up but it was a a successful season for the club, achieving its goal of qualifying for the state tournament while going 11-5 during the regular season and earning a win over Belchertown in the District 3 playoffs. 

"Overall it was a great experience,” Alex Siano said. “It was a lot of fun coaching this team this summer. We have a lot of kids coming back. You never know, maybe next year it goes our way.” 

Softball

FCL

The second round of playoffs games in the Franklin County Summer Softball League took place on Monday at Murphy Park, with Mia Shaw striking out seven as the Bombers earned a 9-8 win over the Menace in a three inning contest. 

Shaw tripled and drove in a run at the plate, Carson Farrell had a double and three RBIs, Riana Shaw cracked a hit that brought in two runs while Brooke Skowron knocked a hit and an RBI in the victory for the Bombers. 

Kylee Gamache tripled to bring in two runs, Aleysha Ramos brought in three runs with a base hit, Lindsey Taylor tripled in a run while Skyler Steele hit safely for the Menace. Raine Wonsey had a strikeout in the loss. 

Tennis

GTA

The Beacon Red Clay Tennis Classic played its semifinal matches on Friday, with Yanis Chibani and Anthony Holley advancing to Monday’s final match. Results from the final weren’t available at print deadline. 

Chibani picked up a 6-4, 7-5 win over Steve Pedigree in the semis while Holley earned a 6-1, 7-6 victory over Mike Husted to move on to the finals.  

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