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 […]
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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 […]
Local roundup: Tournament time for St. Bernard’s
The St. Bernard’s girls basketball team officially punched its postseason ticket Tuesday. And it did so with a little bit of breathing room. Needing to win at least one of their final two games to guarantee a playoff spot, the Bernardians took care of business in its first opportunity. St. B’s is headed to the […]
Bernardians light up the scoreboard in win
FITCHBURG — Morning skates are some of the most important moments in a high school hockey player’s development. And with limited ice time, morning skates are ways to drum in the finer points of things one has to work on. St. Bernard’s turned what had been a planned vacation week morning skate into game conditions, […]
