LOWELL — The Middies made their own luck Monday evening. The sixth-seeded Dracut/Tyngsboro hockey team threw pucks at the net every chance it had during its Div. 3 round of 16 contest against No. 11 Nashoba Regional at the Tsongas Center and the strategy of tossing rubber en masse toward the goal paid off. The […]
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Local roundup: St. Bernard’s storms past Sandwich
The St. Bernard’s ice hockey team played the role of road warriors Sunday afternoon. The ninth-seeded Bernardians took to Gallo Arena in Bourne for a Division 4 round of 16 contest against No. 8 Sandwich and pulled off a minor upset, topping the Blue Knights, 4-1, to advance to the tourney quarterfinals. The win lifts […]
Heartbreaking defeat for Blue Knights
FITCHBURG — The Pentucket Regional hockey team has certainly become a thorn in the side of the Lunenburg/Ayer-Shirley Regional team. For the second straight season, Pentucket dropped the curtain on the Blue Knights’ playoff run as the Panthers defeated the Blue Knights 4-3 in overtime Thursday in round of 32 action of the Division 4 […]
St. Bernard’s opens tourney with big win
FITCHBURG — The great Eddie Olczyk said it best during the gold medal game on Sunday morning: you win your faceoffs, you can dictate the pace of play and attack. In ninth-seeded St. Bernard’s case, it didn’t have to win every faceoff. It only had to win just enough. The host Bernardians were unrelenting in […]
Diving into MIAA tournament pairings
The Fitchburg High School boys basketball team return to the postseason for the first time in three seasons to draw the 37th and final seed in the MIAA Division 2 state tournament Saturday, and will travel to Walpole High to take on the 28th seeded Timberwolves in the preliminaries on Wednesday evening. The winner of […]
Pairings for hockey, hoops released
Let the chase for high school championship glory begin. The MIAA released its ice hockey and basketball pairings Saturday, giving myriad programs dreams of hoisting hardware in the coming weeks. Locally, there’s no shortage of teams which qualified for the postseason in both boys and girls hockey and boys and girls basketball. Here’s a look […]
