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By Nate Weitzer @nweitzer7
READING – Tensions ran high during the final quarter of Monday's D3 North semifinal between fourth-seeded Dracut and eighth-seeded St. Mary's at Austin Prep.
Dracut led, 8-5, late in the third quarter, but the Spartans scored twice in a 19-second span and tied the game, 8-8, early in the fourth.
That's when Dracut senior Allyn French wrestled momentum away from the Spartans, by scooping up one of his 21 faceoff wins on the evening and sprinting to the cage for a goal to put his Middies ahead.
French scored twice more in the fourth quarter, as Dracut held on for a 12-10 victory to make the first sectional final in program history. The Middies will fa