Last modified: Friday, March 11, 2005 12:08 AM EST GOBIS: Ward earns NEWMAC honor Former North Attleboro High hoopster Suzy Ward was named to the All-NEWMAC first team, the sophomore forward leading Babson College to a 17-11 record and its eighth ECAC Tournament berth. `` Suzy enjoyed a breakout season,'' said Babson coach Judy Blinstrub, as Ward was the te -- What was Attleboro High senior Brent Cunniff doing the day after scoring the game-winning goal (just his second of the season) for the Bombardiers' against Bishop Feehan in the MIAA Tournament? Creating puff pastry in his culinary arts class. -- `` I think that he's going to have a good year for us next year,'' related North Attleboro High boys' basketball coach Chris Perron of junior guard Nick Kirby, who improved exponentially over the second half of the season. `` He was really solid.'' -- `` He's played very well for us,'' related Bishop Feehan High hockey coach Phil Hulbig of junior defenseman Ted Carmone. `` He's been the steadying force for us back there. He's technically sound and he plays with an intensity, an edge.'' -- Perhaps one of the best Bombardier hoopsters to hardly ever represent Attleboro High on the basketball floor was senior swingman Jon Linhares, who tore his meniscus on the first day of preseason practice and sat out the entire season under physician's orders. `` He definitely would have helped us with our shooting,'' said AHS coach Mark Houle. -- Bishop Feehan High hoopster Matt Doherty will represent the EAC in the Boys Club Challenge against the South Coast Conference all-stars March 18 at the New Bedford Boys Club. -- Bill Cuthbertson's Dighton-Rehoboth boys' hoop team was represented in the South Coast Conference all-star game at Case by guard Brad Koneski and forward Tim Pacheco. -- Jen Stowell, the former captain of the North Attleboro High softball team, has made the Seton Hall University team as a walk-on, the Pirates beginning their season by winning two games in Florida and now head to Columbus, Ga., for another tournament. -- `` For this team to win 16 games, it's just unbelievable,'' said Foxboro High coach Bo Ruggiero of his Warrior boys' hoop team. `` And they're good kids too. We really did put some fear into Seekonk. We played intense, we played hard -- we just didn't play well.'' -- After just two wins this season, Norton High boys' hoop boss Marc Liberatore is already looking forward to next season, what will be a young Lancer team. `` Our freshman class is our best class, we had several of them playing with the junior varsity and we have some others coming in so we might have to bring them in quickly,'' he said. -- Former Bishop Feehan High swimmer Meaghan Thomas of Foxboro rewrote three of her own Bridgewater State College records -- in the 500 (5:22.01), 1,000 (10:59.44) and 1,650 (19:12.7) freestyle events. -- `` He really had a phenomenal season,'' related Tri-County High boys' basketball coach Dave Wallace of senior guard Kolby Simmons, who cut down on his turnover rate to average 10 points per game and shoot 74 percent at the free throw line. `` The way that we ran our offense, he didn't have to make many decisions and his turnovers dropped. He became the offensive threat.'' -- In the March 2005 issue of the National Masters News, the U.S. Outdoor Masters Track and Field Rankings for 2004 has Attleboro's Sheila McKenna ranked fifth in the 800 meters (3:46) and 12th in the 400 meters (1:39) in the 60-and-over bracket. -- The Attleboro High boys' gymnastics team received a superb season from Matt Lincoln, while senior captains Sam Schultz (vault, floor exercises) and Shane White (high bar, rings) were consistent, `` but after that we had a drop-off in talent,'' said Bombardier boss Mike Martin, `` we didn't have the depth that we normally do.'' -- Attleboro High grad Tim McGlaston, a freshman at Washington and Lee University, was named to the All-Bluegrass Mountain Conference all-star swimming team after taking second in the 50 freestyle (21.57 seconds) at the league meet. -- Brian Chapin, a two-time Sun Chronicle hockey all-star defenseman during his freshman and sophomore years at Feehan before leaving to play junior hockey, played a regular shift with the UMass-Dartmouth hockey team. -- `` He had a great year,'' said North Attleboro High track coach Scott Holster of junior Ivan Fears, who rewrote the Rocketeer record in the 55 dash at 6.65 seconds, was unbeaten during the Hockomock League season in the 50 dash (at a season-best 5.5 time), ran a 23.1-second leg for the 4x200 relay team and also high jumped. PETER GOBIS can be reached at 508-236-0375 or via e-mail at pgobis@thesunchronicle.com