Silver Lake starts sports hall of fame

The first Silver Lake Regional Hall of Fame induction ceremony will be held on Jan. 27. The inaugural group will feature 26 players, coaches, and administrators. Among the inductees is Dartmouth College football coach Buddy Teevens, who played football, hockey, and baseball at the high school before graduating in 1974.

The first class also will include former basketball coach John Killilea and the 1959-60 boys' basketball District C Championship team.

The ceremony will be at 3 p.m. at Halifax Country Club, and all are welcome to attend. For more information, contact Silver Lake athletic director Bill Johnson at bjohnson@slrsd.org or the athletic office at 781-585-3844, ext. 1500.

The University of Massachusetts field hockey team concluded its best season since 2000 with three starters from communities south of Boston.

Freshman forward Katie Kelly and senior forward Kara Murphy, both of Dedham, and junior midfielder Mary Shea of Foxborough were members of a squad that captured the program's first Atlantic 10 title since 2001.

With Murphy scoring the game's first goal, UMass defeated 17th-ranked Princeton, 2-1, in a play-in game to secure a spot in the NCAA tournament. The Minutemen (14-9) lost to fourth-ranked Connecticut, 4-1, in the first round of the tournament, but the team's 14 wins were the most since for the program since 2000.

Murphy ended her college career with three goals and three assists as a senior and played all 42 games the past two seasons. She was part of Dedham High's state championship team in 2003 that finished 23-0-1. That team also included Kelly, who went on to lead Dedham to another state title in 2005. Kelly scored three goals and one assist this fall, while Shea had three assists.

Tim and BriAnna Habeeb even impressed themselves with their performance at the recent US Junior Figure Skating Championships.

The Hanover siblings placed eighth out of 32 teams in the national competition held in Salt Lake City.

"It was exciting. I wasn't even expecting to get that far, " said Tim Habeeb, a freshman at Sacred Heart High School in Kingston. BriAnna is an eighth-grader at the school.

A top-10 finish was quite an accomplishment for the pair, who had not competed for over a year.

In 2005, Tim Habeeb developed Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy Syndrome, a chronic neurological disease that causes everything from severe burning pain to tissue swelling to extreme sensitivity to touch. He was on crutches for nearly a year because he could not put pressure on his right foot. Through therapy and treatment he was able to walk again in September 2006 without crutches.

"I didn't understand much about what was going on. . . . It was kind of frustrating," he said.

In March, just as Habeeb regained his strength and desire to return to skating, his appendix ruptured. But in April, he returned to figure skating, a sport he and his sister have participated in since they were 3 years old.

"I had the feeling that we would skate again," said his sister. "It's just that you're not really sure at first."

They have grown up skating at Pilgrim Skating Club in Pembroke, and this year began working with pairs coach Bobby Martin at Colonial Figure Skating Club in Boxborough.

In that short time, they were able to get back into competitive shape and put together a 2-minute, 40-second routine that was good enough for national honors in Utah, where they recorded a score of 32.56.

The pair will take a few weeks off and then return to training in January in preparation for another season.