Ullrich, Fuls Earn Athlete of Week Honors

It was a short week, but the iBerkshires.com Athletes of the Week were anything but short on talent.

 

The winter high school sports season kicks into gear in the next few days, when most of the county’s teams play their season openers.

 

But a handful of teams jumped the gun and started playing games that count on Thursday. Those games produced the usual assortment of standout performances.

 

No one had a better week than Mount Everett junior Michael Ullrich.

 

On Thursday, he scored 26 points in a three-point win over Ware in the opening round of Franklin Tech’s Eagle Holiday Classic.

 

Twenty-four hours later, Ullrich scored 12 as the Eagles beat McCann Tech to claim Mount Everett’s first title at the season-opening invitational since 2014.

 

Mount Everett stays busy this week with its home-opener on Monday against the Pioneer Valley Christian Immersion Charter School and a shorter road trip on Thursday to Westfield to face St. Mary’s

 

The McCann Tech hockey team debuted on Friday and got solid performances from junior goaltender Abby Fuls on back-to-back nights.

 

In the road opener, Fuls stopped 33 shots in a 3-1 loss. On Saturday at the Peter W. Foote Vietnam Veterans Memorial Rink, she made 15 saves to backstop the Hornets to a 5-2 win over Mount Everett.

 

“We have a lot of confidence [in Fuls],” McCann Tech senior David Delisle said after the win. “She’s a really good goalie. She’s been with me since youth league. I know how she plays, and she can step up. She can do a lot.”

 

McCann Tech is home again on Wednesday when it faces the Taconic at 7:30 p.m.