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Hard to believe, but the 2019-2020 regular season is at the two-thirds pole. Teams now are clinching post-season berths, and zeroing on league championships. And, there is a new #1 this week in the latest HNIB News Massachusetts Girls Division 1 Top 10. The distinction ...

Being the only team in last week’s Top 6 not to suffer a loss this past week, surging Salisbury (14-1-1) moves into the top spot in the HNIB News Boys Prep Top 15. The Crimson Knights, whose Saturday game against Kent was postponed, had big ...

Oyster River crossed the state Saturday and dealt No. 1 Keene (5-1-1) its first loss of the season, 4-3 – a bit surprising in the sense that the Blackbirds had yielded just three goals in three previous home games. We could penalize the Blackbirds but ...

Been around long enough to know there’s no such thing as a sure thing. However, given the way that No. 1 Concord (11-0-0) has powered through the rest of the division, it’s hard to view the Crimson Tide in any other way at this juncture. ...

West Springfield (9-3-0) was off this past week, and they will be plenty rested for a big tilt against Westfield on Wednesday. Minnechaug (6-5) earned a quality win 5-4 win over previous No. 2 Longmeadow on Thursday, before dropping a 6-3 decision to Auburn on ...

Wachusett Regional (10-1-2) snapped a two-game winless streak when they downed Westboro, 5-3 on Saturday. Northbridge (11-1) has now won ten in a row after two more this wins this past week.  The Rams showed they are the 3A team to beat in Central Mass. ...

Things finally have stabilized a bit in the HNIB News Connecticut Division 3 boys hockey rankings, which remain unchanged almost from top to bottom from last week. It was a quiet week with many teams getting in only one game, if any at all. Hall-Southington ...

And now, No. 1 is the only one left. After a week in which two undefeated Division 2 teams took a fall, Wethersfield-Middletown-Rocky Point remains the lone perfect team across all divisions in Connecticut boys hockey, and retains the top spot in this week’s HNIB ...

It wasn’t a week of shocking upsets or anything surprising, really, in Rhode Island boys hockey circles. Only two of our Top 5 teams actually lost games – Barrington has now dropped two out of three falling to Bishop Hendricken and LaSalle. And Hendricken fell ...