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March 9, 2010

Madison Park falls short

Central Catholic ends Cardinals run

By Jamie Rosa and Justin A. Rice
With 30 seconds left in Monday night’s EMass Final, Madison Park trailed Central Catholic by 10 points when the Cardinals’ coach Dennis Wilson walked down his bench and shook each and every one of his players hands, thanking them for the [...]

March 8, 2010

Mission accomplished

Titans defeat Cathedral High to win first state title

By Justin A. Rice
With about 1 minute and 15 seconds remaining in the Division 4 state championship boys’ basketball game on Monday afternoon at TD Garden, members of the New Mission girls’ basketball team started chanting “Cory, Cory, Cory, Cory!”
Check out Patrick O’Connor’s [...]

March 7, 2010

New Mission boys advance to Division 4 State Title Game

By Patrick E. O’Connor
The New Mission boys’ basketball team are off to the Division 4 state title game on Monday at the TD Banknorth Garden and will meet up with the Cathedral High Panthers. The Titans, led by Cory McCarthy, decisively defeated the Winthrop Vikings on Saturday, 70-38, at Emmanuel [...]

March 6, 2010

Madison Park dances to victory

Cardinals blow past Mansfield for first sectional title since 1982

By Jamie Rosa and Justin A. Rice
The Madison Park boys’ basketball team won its first South Sectional title since 1982 on Friday night, defeating Mansfield High 72-60 at TD Garden.
“I’m so much more happy for them, they worked for this since March,” [...]

March 4, 2010

New Mission headed to first sectional finals

Titans take out Snowden
The New Mission boys’ basketball team defeated Snowden 85-57 on Wednesday night to advance to its first ever  Division 4 North sectional finals.
The top-seeded Titans (21-2) will play No. 2 Winthrop (21-3) at noon on Saturday at Emmanuel College.
Samir McDaniels scored 20 points on Wednesday night and added 11 rebounds for New [...]

March 3, 2010

Cardinals in the Garden

Madison Park beats Brockton in OT

By Jamie Rosa
BPSsports.com Correspondent
DORCHESTER — Four quarters wasn’t enough to decide this one as top-seeded Madison Park gave up a 19-point halftime edge before holding on to defeat No. 4 Brockton on Tuesday night in the Division 1 South semifinals.
Check out Patrick O’Connor’s slide show from the game.
Senior [...]

February 27, 2010

Kelley reaches 1,000 points mark in final game for Titans

By Patrick E. O’Connor
The reining Boston City League champs, New Mission High’s girls’ basketball team, had high hopes for advancing in the state tournament but the season ended with a two point loss to Georgetown on Thursday night, at English High.
Georgtown (7-14) defeated the Titans, 47-45, in the second round of [...]

February 25, 2010

More on Southie hoops

Here is Bruce Lerch’s story on last night’s Southe-Watertown stunner in the Boston Herald and here is my story for the Daily News Tribune.

February 25, 2010

Southie sends defending champs packing

By Jamie Rosa and Justin A. Rice
WATERTOWN — Only using five players on Wednesday night, South Boston’s boys’ basketball team upset defending champion Watertown High in the opening round of the Division 3 North bracket.
Losing three players to academic ineligibility recently, the No. 12-seeded Knights (11-10) were forced to play with a short bench consisting [...]

February 24, 2010

Latin freezes Watertown

The Boston Latin boys’ hockey team defeated Watertown in the state tournament on Tuesday night. Here’s the story in the Daily News Tribune.