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FOXBORO - It was the Warriors best game of the season. More of this storyTRACK: Record-setting day at Relays MANSFIELD - Junior Steve Gannon had never run a 400 meter race before, let alone the first leg for a 4x400 relay team. With senior captain Kyle Kilduff anchoring that quartet, the Mansfield High boys' relay team not only finished first in that event at the McIntyre Relay Meet Sunday at the Reggie Lewis Center, the Hornets shattered the school record. More of this storyH.S. BASKETBALL: Seekonk outlasted SEEKONK - With only one senior on the team, Senior Night festivities were brief for the Seekonk High girls' basketball team Monday night, but the undermanned Warriors probably could have used a little extra rest as they ran out of gas in the fourth quarter and eventually fell to Greater New Bedford, 50-38, in a South Coast Conference game. More of this storyANDOVER - Matt Fyfe had a runner-up performance on the floor Monday night to highlight the Attleboro High boys' gymnastics team's trip to the State Coaches Invitational in Andover. More of this storyWHITMAN - For years, the North Attleboro High wrestling team has dominated the Division 2 South Sectional dual-meet tournament. More of this storyATTLEBORO - Less than 24 hours after successfully defending their regular-season Hockomock League title, the King Philip Regional High boys' swimming team took to the pool again Saturday for the Hockomock League Championship Meet and repeated again. More of this storyHOCKEY: KP wins first must-win FRANKLIN - As far as coach Bob Piotti and the King Philip Regional High ice hockey team are concerned, the postseason has already started. More of this storyMANSFIELD - The Mansfield High girls' gymnastics team had a great day at the Hockomock League Championship Meet, boasting four individual champions on the day. More of this storyFARINELLA: Heart says Saints, head says Colts The biggest game of the season is today. It's called the Super Bowl, unless you happen to be trying to sell something related to it to somebody and don't have dispensation from the NFL to use the two magic words, in which case it becomes "the big game in Miami." More of this storyPROVIDENCE - They did a creditable job defending the nation's best three-point shooting team, even though Marquette University still managed to drill 11. More of this storyTRACK: Youngsters solid at Janiak Meet NEW BEDFORD - Foxboro High sophomore Kristina Ketchum had no competition in the mile at the Janiak Freshman Sophomore Invitational meet at New Bedford, winning the event with a time of 5:41.1, first by 13 seconds. Teammate Taylor Laubenstein wasn't far behind, the freshman taking fifth with a time of 6:16.64. More of this storyFRANKLIN - This was the breakout game for junior forward Michael Lofton, the game that he will remember for many a year. More of this storySWIMMING: NA, KP boys share title NORTH ATTLEBORO - Talk about delayed gratification. More of this storyFOXBORO - It was senior night at Foxboro High School, but it was a freshman that stole that show. More of this storyATTLEBORO - The Bombardiers can put the moniker OCL champions on their varsity jackets. More of this storyREHOBOTH - The Dighton-Rehoboth Regional High girls' basketball team is going to need a little help to catch Old Rochester for the South Coast Conference championship after suffering a 56-53 loss to Wareham Friday night. More of this storyGIRLS' HOOP: Hoffman leads FHS WRENTHAM - Kristen Hoffman poured in a career-high 35 points Friday night to lead the Foxboro High girls' basketball team to a 64-40 drubbing of King Philip. More of this storySEEKONK - Senior Jeff Thomas of Foxboro, senior Ryan Younis of Franklin and senior Patrick Sullivan put on a show at the Ellis Mayers Natatorium at Seekonk High School Thursday during the Southern Conference Championship Swimming Meet. More of this storyFOXBORO - Their progress is apparent. But so far, it just isn't enough. More of this storyGOBIS: Holy Cross to honor local Still pounding the pavement 10 miles a day, former North Attleboro High Red Rocketeer runner Lynn Liberatore (now Lynn Johnson) will be elected into the College of the Holy Cross Athletic Hall of Fame in May. More of this storyNEW BEDFORD - Senior Casey O'Brien, who has the 10th best clocked time nationally in the 300 meter run at 35.17 seconds this winter, won that event and the 50 dash in guiding the Seekonk High boys' track team to a 72-14 verdict over Fairhaven Thursday in a South Coast Conference meet at the Greater New Bedford Voke Fieldhouse. More of this storyGIRLS HOOP: T-C remains winless EASTON - Some halftime adjustments helped the Tri-County Regional High girls' basketball team carve into a 21-point deficit, but it wasn't enough to get in the win column as Southeastern prevailed Thursday, 47-31. More of this storyCampbell, Delaney to play together at UMass It was a tag team formed a few years ago, while meeting at the Boston College summer football camp - one kid from South Attleboro, the other kid from New Jersey with folks in Foxboro. More of this storyWashburn, Mansfield dominate Foxboro FOXBORO - It was a thoroughly dominating performance on Wednesday night for the Mansfield High hockey team, the Hornets controlling play en route to a 9-0 victory over Foxboro. More of this storyVaughn left off NFL combine roster NORTH ATTLEBORO - The road to the National Football League became a little more difficult for a local prospect this week. More of this storyNORTON - No doubt about it. This felt good. More of this storyWRESTLING: Early dominance holds up for North NORTH ATTLEBORO - Winning five of the first half-dozen matches contested, including the very first three on the mat Wednesday at the Kenneth Pickering Gymnasium, the North Attleboro High wrestling team went on to take a 35-24 decision from King Philip in the Hockomock League match. More of this storyTRACK: D-R boys have inside track for SCC title NEW BEDFORD - The Dighton-Rehoboth boys' track team is one more win away from a three-peat. More of this storyGYMNASTICS: Rocketeers just shy NORTH ATTLEBORO - The North Attleboro High gymnastics team put forth its best effort of the year but came up just short, falling to Sharon 138.8-136.2 in a nail-biter of a regular-season finale. More of this storySEEKONK - There's a certain amount of pressure that builds for a high school athlete approaching his or her 1,000th career point. More of this storyHOCKOMOCK BOYS: No room at the top SHARON - So now there are three teams atop the Hockomock League - each with two losses. More of this storyBOYS HOOP: Feehan lights it up ATTLEBORO - Talk about being on fire! More of this storyDARTMOUTH - The Bishop Feehan High Shamrocks not only secured at least a share of the Eastern Athletic Conference title, they qualified for the MIAA Tournament. More of this storyHOCKOMOCK GIRLS: North rolls on NORTH ATTLEBORO - The Big Red rolls on. But, it was a bit of a bumpy road for the North Attleboro High girls' basketball team before taking a 57-47 victory over Canton Tuesday in a Hockomock League game. More of this storyFARINELLA: Media Day not much to write home about I've got to admit, I felt no sympathy for the thousands of reporters who had to crowd into the club level of Your Name Here Stadium in Miami (they sell that name faster than McDonald's sells hamburgers) Tuesday for Media Day at Super Bowl XLIV. More of this storyNORTH ATTLEBORO - Robb McCoy is back on the sidelines, not that he ever left them - as the head football coach at Durfee High School in Fall River. More of this storyGYMNASTICS: AHS no match for Barnstable ATTLEBORO - The Attleboro High boys' gymnastics team just wasn't able to match up with Barnstable, the top team in the state, falling 175.8-138.0 Tuesday afternoon. More of this storyWRESTLING: T-C pins down title COHASSET - Talk about late-season drama. More of this storySWIMMING: Norton finishes strong NORTON - It was an exciting regular-season finale for the Norton High boys' and girls' swimming teams on Tuesday, the Lancer boys earning their second win of the season while the girls picked up their second tie at the pool at Wheaton College. More of this storyWALPOLE - Down two goals with just over a minute remaining in the game, it would have been easy for the North Attleboro High hockey team to give up against Bishop Feehan Tuesday evening. More of this storyHe is atop the totem pole, having accumulated more victories than any other wrestler in the brief, four-year history that is the Norton High School wrestling program. More of this storyBASKETBALL: Hannon leads Lancers into tournament WESTWOOD - Ed Hannon scored nine of his game-high 17 points as the Norton High boys' basketball team held off Westwood 48-44 Monday night and clinched its third straight MIAA Tournament berth. More of this storyTRACK: AHS girls give up OCL title BOSTON - The field events led the way for the Attleboro High girls' track team on Monday at the Old Colony League Indoor Track Championship Meet at the Reggie Lewis Center, but it wasn't enough for the Bombardier girls to repeat as league champs. More of this storyMANSFIELD - Considering that the Attleboro High School boys' basketball team had been averaging some 68 points per game this season, there was one end of the court that the Hornets of Mansfield High School had to pay attention to on Sunday afternoon at the James Albertini Gymnasium. More of this storyNORTH ATTLEBORO - Had the North Attleboro High boys' basketball team known that Franklin's Matt Palazini, one of the best players in the Hockomock League, would spend a majority of Sunday's game on his bench in foul trouble and finish with only five points, they probably would have thought they'd have a better-than-average chance to complete the season sweep of the Panthers. More of this storyGIRLS' BASKETBALL: Mansfield holds off gutsy Attleboro ATTLEBORO - Briena Walker wanted the ball in her hands and delivered eight fourth-quarter points as the Mansfield High girls' basketball team withstood a strong challenge from Attleboro High before prevailing 60-43 Sunday in the non-league game. More of this storyTRACK: Tiny Seekonk has huge day BOSTON - They may be one of the small teams in the state, but the Seekonk High School winter track squads put up some big results during Sunday's Mass. State Track Coaches Association Elite Meet at the Reggie Lewis Center. More of this story |