FHS iceman fall late

FOXBORO - It was the Warriors best game of the season.

TRACK: 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.

H.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.

GYMNASTICS: AHS boys solid

ANDOVER - 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.

North pins down title

WHITMAN - For years, the North Attleboro High wrestling team has dominated the Division 2 South Sectional dual-meet tournament.

SWIMMING: KP boys defend

ATTLEBORO - 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.

HOCKEY: 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.

GYMNASTICS: Great day for MHS

MANSFIELD - The Mansfield High girls' gymnastics team had a great day at the Hockomock League Championship Meet, boasting four individual champions on the day.

FARINELLA: 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."

Pesky Friars fall short

PROVIDENCE - They did a creditable job defending the nation's best three-point shooting team, even though Marquette University still managed to drill 11.

TRACK: 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.

Lofton leads MHS

FRANKLIN - This was the breakout game for junior forward Michael Lofton, the game that he will remember for many a year.

SWIMMING: NA, KP boys share title

NORTH ATTLEBORO - Talk about delayed gratification.

Myers upstages Senior Night

FOXBORO - It was senior night at Foxboro High School, but it was a freshman that stole that show.

BOYS HOOP: AHS wins OCL

ATTLEBORO - The Bombardiers can put the moniker OCL champions on their varsity jackets.

GIRLS' HOOP: D-R downed

REHOBOTH - 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.

GIRLS' 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.

Locals make splash

SEEKONK - 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.

Knights making progress

FOXBORO - Their progress is apparent. But so far, it just isn't enough.

GOBIS: 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.

TRACK: O'Brien leads SHS boys

NEW 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.

GIRLS 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.

Campbell, 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.

Washburn, 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.

Vaughn 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.

Tickled pink

NORTON - No doubt about it. This felt good.

WRESTLING: 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.

TRACK: 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.

GYMNASTICS: 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.

Silva nets 1,000th

SEEKONK - There's a certain amount of pressure that builds for a high school athlete approaching his or her 1,000th career point.

HOCKOMOCK BOYS: No room at the top

SHARON - So now there are three teams atop the Hockomock League - each with two losses.

BOYS HOOP: Feehan lights it up

ATTLEBORO - Talk about being on fire!

GIRLS HOOP: Feehan clinches

DARTMOUTH - The Bishop Feehan High Shamrocks not only secured at least a share of the Eastern Athletic Conference title, they qualified for the MIAA Tournament.

HOCKOMOCK 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.

FARINELLA: 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.

McCoy takes over at Durfee

NORTH 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.

GYMNASTICS: 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.

WRESTLING: T-C pins down title

COHASSET - Talk about late-season drama.

SWIMMING: 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.

HOCKEY: North rallies to tie

WALPOLE - 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.

GOBIS: Mixing it up

He 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.

BASKETBALL: 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.

TRACK: 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.

Working for the clampdown

MANSFIELD - 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.

Panthers are top cats

NORTH 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.

GIRLS' 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.

TRACK: 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.