The Attleboro Area Girls' Holiday Basketball Tournament will be in limbo for a year.

Due to the withdrawal of Mansfield High, Attleboro High, Bishop Feehan High and North Attleboro High will now play each other an additional time as a non-league foe. Mansfield sought to participate in the Hingham Holiday Tournament as guest of former Hornet athletic director Margaret Conaty.

Only a handful of teams responded to inquiries for a fourth entry, perhaps sensing the strength of the field as the Shamrocks, Blue 0Bombardiers and Red Rocketeers were all MIAA Tournament-tested last season...

Head coach Joe Reardon and his Bishop Feehan High volleyball team raised some $4,400 in its home match against Attleboro High two weeks ago for Breast Cancer Awareness. The once-beaten Shamrocks have a stellar defensive specialist-libero in senior Jess Nolan, "she's everywhere," said Reardon of her agility...

Former Attleboro High gridder Jono Graziosi, starting at linebacker as a freshman for the WPI football team (4-1), was the Engineers' Defensive Player of the Week for his 11-tackle (three for lost yards) and forced fumble effort in a three-point victory over Union on Homecoming Day. In that same game, Foxboro's Andrew Connolly, a freshman at Union, tossed a pair of first-half TD passes... Also at Union, Norfolk's Alli Cuozzo, was the Liberty League's Offensive Player of the Week, the midfielder scoring two goals for the women's soccer team (8-2-1) in a victory over Utica and the lone goal in a loss to Williams...

And another former King Philip Warrior great, Kaitlin Lamothe, produced a hat trick for the Bridgewater State women's soccer team (5-1-2) in a victory over UMass-Dartmouth, tallying in the sixth, 13th and 41st minutes of the first half...

Former Mansfield High Hornet Bruce Burley, the senior running back for the Bridgewater State College football team, was named to the D3football.com Team of the Week for his 202 yards rushing, two-TD (runs of 48 and 41 yards) performance against Fitchburg. Burley is now No. 7 on the Bears' all-time rushing list with 1,953 yards in three varsity seasons...

"There's not a better leader," related Foxboro High girls' soccer coach Caitlin Annicelli of senior captain and fullback Cayleigh Lincoln, perhaps the Warriors' best one-on-one defender. "She's always working so hard, even in practice"...

Paul Pontes' unbeaten Bishop Feehan High girls' soccer team is riddled with injuries. Captain Liz Farrell and workhorse defender Cat Wald are gone for the season with ACL injuries, striker Siobhan Devoy may be out for another week with a foot injury and Meg Zerba is banged up...

Former Dighton-Rehoboth High soccer star Tim Warren, a senior defender with the St. Michael's College (5-6-1) booters, scored the match-winning goal in the 70th minute in a 1-0 victory at Stonehill. Warren hasn't missed a start since moving into the lineup late in his freshman year...

"He's such a machine, such a workhorse," North Attleboro High boys' soccer coach Steve Santos praised senior midfielder Christian Pirnie, whose endless energy and runs and throw-ins put tremendous pressure on opponents...

Junior captain Jason Beland of the Foxboro High cross country team is the son of former Attleboro High distance star, Dennis Beland, the Warriors' No. 1 runner. He tailed Mike Moverman (4:16 miler, ranked No. 8 nationally) of Oliver Ames the entire race the other day. "He's on the brink of a top-12 finish at Tuesday's Hockomock League meet, if he is healthy," said Foxboro coach Mike Atwood...

The Grand Slam Riverdogs AAU 15-and-under baseball club (30-18-1) celebrated its recent season with a number of awards to local players - Ryan Bettencourt of Dighton-Rehoboth High School, the Gold Glove Award, and Sean Weyland, of Bishop Feehan High School, Batting Champ...

At the Stone-E-Lea Golf Course last weekend, 61-year old Andre Chevrette of Blackstone downed his second career hole in one, using a 7-iron on the No. 7 hole, playing in a group with Dave Wordell, Bill and Pat Perry... Clay Field of South Kingstown, R.I., who has had assistant coaching stints at Bryant University and Rollins College, is the new head coach for the South Attleboro Post 312 Legion baseball team...

Freshman Kristen MacGray will never forget her first varsity match in uniform for the Norton High girls' soccer team, albeit a 5-2 loss to Millis. Just up from the junior varsity, she scored on a penalty kick and a one-touch volley in the box. "She showed that she belongs," said coach Todd Kefor...

The second annual Sun Chronicle All-Star Soccer match, featuring the top boys and girls players from the area's schools and MIAA sanctioned, will be played Nov. 22 at Mansfield High's Alumni Field...

Mansfield High girls' cross country coach Derek Ellis is raving about the Hornets' future, what with four finishers among the top 35 at the Freshmen-Sophomore Meet - Lauren Caeran, Haley Bougas, Tina Rothchild and Emily Ballastock.

PETER GOBIS can be reached at 508-236-0375 or at pgobis@thesunchronicle.com.