The Mt. Hope High School lacrosse teams opened up their 2025 seasons in recent days, the boys claiming a pair of decisive victories including an18-3 win over Burrillville at the Naomi Street Field in Bristol.

The Huskies, who ripped Cranston West, 12-4, in their spring debut, broke open a close, 5-3, game against the Broncos with a second-half surge.

Charlie Knapman, who missed the outing against the Falcons with an ankle sprain, netted a game-best four goals for the locals in his first contest of the season.

Ben Browne and Emerson Torrey each had hat-tricks. Will Stimpson and Nate Carpenter scored a pair. Aedan Nelson, Noah Sweeney, Maddox Canario and Brayden Vales added one apiece.

Browne, Stimpson and Sweeney had three assists each. Knapman and Jack Godbout were credited with two helpers. Tommy Loiselle had one.

Ethan LaBollita made nine saves on 12 shots faced in the Mt. Hope net. Browne had eight face-off wins, Carpenter six.

Girls' lacrosse
The Mt. Hope girls, unfortunately, were on the wrong end of two, one-sided defeats as they began 2025.

The Huskies dropped a 15-2 decision in Cumberland and most recently an 11-5 setback to Middletown also at Naomi Street.

Against the Clippers, Lilliana Redman and Miley Boucher accounted for the goals. Adriana Botelho had an assist.

Lola Silva had a hat-trick in the loss to the Islanders. Boucher and Sophia Santoro had the other goals. Boucher had a helper.

Baseball
The Mt. Hope baseball team began 2025 with a late-game loss to Lincoln High, 5-3.

The Huskies took a 3-1 lead into the seventh inning, but the bullpen couldn't hold the lead as the Lions scored four times in the top of the frame.

The defeat spoiled a fine start by Ethan Santerre, who went five innings in his first start of the season, allowed just one hit and struck out 11. The one run he allowed was earned. He walked three.

The Huskies scored all three of their runs in the home half of the first. Lincoln scored one in the top of the fourth, then rallied with the four-spot in the seventh.

Logan Dubois, Rhys Davies and Brian Abbruzzi scored the Mt. Hope runs. Trace Dubois drove in all three with a bases-clearing triple. In front of Trace Dubois, Davies singled, Logan Dubois walked and Abbruzzi reached on an error.

Davies finished the afternoon with two of the Huskies' six total hits in the contest.

Softball
The Mt. Hope softball side suffered a 13-1 defeat in its 2025 debut in Portsmouth against the host Patriots.

Sophia Haberman drove in the lone run for the locals with a double in the third, plating Hallie Ferreira, who walked earlier in the inning.

The Patriots took immediate control of the contest, scoring four times in the bottom of the first then adding five more in the home half of the second. Portsmouth scored twice more in the third and fourth, eventually ending the game via the 10-Run Rule after five innings.