Sports Roundup: Shrewsbury All-Star team wins Jimmy Fund Tournament
By Ken Powers Contributing Writer

Region - With a hard-fought 9-6 win over a tenacious Southborough squad, the Shrewsbury National 10-year-old All-Star team won the Massachusetts District 5 Little League Jimmy Fund Baseball tournament, hosted late last month by the Oxford Little League.

Shrewsbury finished 10-1 in the 17-team tournament, and its win over Southborough in the final was the second time in the tournament that Shrewsbury had won a game between the two teams.

Members of the team were Mike Abbott, Kevin Akerson, Kearan Burke, Nick Ellis, Shane Govoni, Matt Jackson, Daniel Quinlivan, Jack Quinlivan, Kevin Quinlivan, Chris Sanchez- Ussia, Kyle Trocki and Chris White.

Coaching the team were Mark Abbott, Mark Akerson, Bob Trocki and Jim White.

Boys basketball

Behind the consistent play of Kareem Kalil, Tim McDonald and Mike Stasaitis, the team consisting of players who compete for Algonquin Regional High School during the academic year advanced to the championship game of the Auburn Summer League.

The team, which went by "Algonquin" during league play, lost to a team of players from Tantasqua Regional, many of whom were integral parts of the team that captured the Massachusetts Division 2 championship in March.

Kalil led the Algonquin effort in the final with 14 points, while McDonald and Stasaitis added eight each. Six of Stasaitis's points came via two shots he drained from beyond the threepoint arc.

Other members of the team included Kevin Brown, Joe DePalo, Tom Dumont, Ricky Fagan, Matt McNulty, John Moreno, Dan Solis and Mike Speranzella. Coaching the team was Alan McDonald, who was assisted by Rick Fagan.

"I'm proud of the way the kids played hard and never gave up," McDonald said. "It was a fun season."

Algonquin finished the summer season, 13-3.

Golf

Congratulations to Hudson's Alex Daley and Shrewsbury's Nicholas Erlichman as both turned in a fine allaround showing at the Optimist International Junior Golf Championships, held last month at the PGA National Resort and Spa in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla.

Daley, who graduated from Hudson High in June, competed in the 16- to 18- year-old division. He finished tied for 32nd after shooting a 74-73-80-76- 303 on the par- 72 course.

Erlichman, finished tied for 98th in the 14- and 15-yearold division. The junior-to-be carded rounds of 81-87- 79- 247.

The Optimist Championship is truly an international event with more than 750 golfers representing 43 states, six Canadian provinces and 39 nations. Past champions include Tiger Woods, Phil Michelson, Ernie Els, Craig Stadler, Amy Alcott, Brandie Burton, Nick Price and Lorena Ochoa.

Rowing

Northborough's Lilly Anderson and Shrewsbury's Christina Peltier rowed their way to the semifinals of the 125th annual Royal Canadian Henley Regatta held last week on Martindale Pond, a body of water fed by Lake Ontario.

Competing in the Senior B Women's Pair, Anderson and Peltier covered the 2,000-meter course in their qualifying heat in 8:30.45, good for second in the heat. They finished sixth in the semifinals, but only the top two boats qualified for the final.