Tag Archives: Xaverian

  Years from now, when the tales of this strangest of all seasons are told, the words of St. Mary’s coach Mark Lee, will apply to everyone who laced them up this winter. “These kids will be telling their kids about playing during all the ...

CHAMPIONSHIP Xaverian 2, Catholic Memorial 1 Make that a double for Xaverian. The regular-season champion Hawks added the Catholic Conference Tournament title to this season’s haul with a 2-1 win against 2020 champion Catholic Memorial Saturday afternoon at the Canton Ice House. Junior Braden O’Hara ...

SEMIFINALS Catholic Memorial 3, St. John’s Prep 1 At the Essex Sports Center, CM defeated the Eagles for the second time in nine days to take 5-of-6 points on the season. The 2020 regular-season champion Knights packed all of their scoring into the second half ...

And on and on it goes. Chaos has characterized this most unusual of seasons and it continued last week. Three previously unbeaten teams lost for the first time, two of them against high-end lower division opponents. Additionally, 14 teams moved one way or another from ...

In a week that saw 19 postponements, enough hockey was played to present our first in-season Massachusetts Boys Division 1 Top 20. And, to that end, there haven’t been any significant surprises. ** One piece of business – teams that have yet to play a ...

From the looks of things, this should be a typical highly competitive Catholic Conference race. Each team will play the other twice, for a 10 league-game season, with plans for a small post-season league tournament. St. John’s of Shrewsbury, a longtime independent program, joins the ...

There will be no State Tournaments. With teams playing only for league championships, those high-pressure non-league match-ups between elite programs that provide the measuring stick and the heartbeat of each season won’t take place. Framingham and Reading are on indefinite pause of their winter programs ...

The correct decision by the MIAA to cancel State Championship games and that board’s ensuing declaration that co-champions would be recognized provided a bit of history in Division 1A. There is no question players, coaches, fans and media alike would have preferred the championships be ...

Winner’s Bracket In Stoneham, the Spy Ponders (18-1-4) jumped on the Prep with three first-period goals and then turned things over to senior goalie Nathan Brennan (29 saves) to close it out as they extended their unbeaten string to 20 games (16-0-4). The Middlesex League ...