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All-State football team
The Massachusetts Football Coaches Association has announced the 2009 All-State Football Team.
Super Bowls 2009
Relive the glory right here with these great moments from the 2009 Super Bowls at Gillette Stadium.
Champions Gallery
View photos from the fall state championships in field hockey, cross country and volleyball.
Division 1 Soccer
View photos of Catholic Memorial's 1-0 win in the Division 1 State boys soccer final.

The Globe's Bob Hohler investigates the sad state of athletics at Boston's public schools in an eye-opening, seven-part series.
Boys basketball
Somerville players adapt to changing roles on court
One of the top-scoring guards in the Greater Boston League, Franklin Salvadore, is used to shouldering the offense for the Somerville High boys’ basketball team. After averaging 16 points per game as a junior, the 5-foot-9 Salvadore plans to pick up where he left off.
Saving grace for Newton South coach
It wasn't the first time he had these thoughts. End it all? Sure. What the hell.
Rams are tough and hope to deliver
The team slogan, “Ram tough,’’ is printed on the back of their green-and-white warmup shirts.
King, Bowman ignite Babson's start
With former Framingham High star Kathleen King and former Arlington Catholic High standout Becky Bowman of Melrose producing stellar play, the Babson College women’s basketball team is off to a 7-2 start.
Groton-Dunstable succeds by pushing
Keith Woods traces his up-tempo, push-the-ball philosophy to a coaches clinic he attended nearly 15 years ago at the College of the Holy Cross, in which Paul Westhead , then head coach at George Mason University, was one of the day’s speakers.
Girls Hockey
St. Mary's a budding sisterhood on skates
From year to year, the faces and the names will change, but one thing always seems to remain a constant with the success of the girls' hockey program at St. Mary's Junior-Senior High in Lynn.
- School roundup St. Mary’s earns record win
- Ice Chips South | West | North
37th Globe Scholastic Awards
North Andover scores narrow win
North Andover and Reading are separated by less than 13 miles, but to look at the results from the 37th edition of the Globe’s Scholastic Awards, the two schools are much closer. (Globe Staff, 12/24/09)
Scituate hockey trio having big impact on Cornell’s Big Red
On a college hockey roster stocked with Canadian-born players and just six Americans, it would be a long shot to find one person from a small town like Scituate. (Globe Correspondent, 12/26/09)
Danvers High band to strut for third time at Tournament of Roses Parade
When the Danvers High School Falcon Marching Band makes its way down Colorado Boulevard in Pasadena, Calif., on New Year’s Day, it will be making Massachusetts’ history. (Globe Correspondent, 12/26/09)

Family shares the court
Jasper and Nicky Grassa, like many siblings, feed off each other on the court, each able to anticipate the other’s next move. The Grassa brothers also have a pretty good sense of the mindset of their head coach at Lynn Classical: Their father, Tom, has been a fixture on the Rams bench since 1985.
- Globe North 5 players, teams to watch
Boys basketball 2009-10 preview

English has edge in pick-up
This was supposed to be a rebuilding season for Lynn English after the team graduated six rotation players from last year’s Division 1 EMass championship squad.
Girls basketball 2009-10 preview

MVC powers share spotlight
The Andover girls’ basketball team outscored Central Catholic by a combined 29 points in their two regular-season games last year. But after falling to Lowell, 50-48, in the Division 1 North semifinal, the Golden Warriors had to watch from the sideline as Central Catholic went on to win the state championship.
- Girls Globe preseason top 20

Millis senior sets tone for state champs
Millis High senior cocaptain Molly Breen hits the floor hard and gets up every time stronger -- just as her team has come to depend upon.
- Globe West 5 players, teams to watch

Scituate guards suit up for last act
Rodney Beldo and Sam Malone first met when they were in sixth grade, as opponents in AAU basketball. After playing against each other for a season, the two point guards decided they wanted to be teammates.
- Globe South 5 players, teams to watch

Lexington High girls' hockey team comes of age
Lexington High girls’ hockey coach Jay Pelkey remembers vividly a conversation he had with his coaching staff four years ago.

Boys' hockey 2009-10 preview
Words to fear . . . CM is loaded
Catholic Memorial, reigning Super 8 champions, may need to make room for another trophy.

Girls' 2009-10 hockey preview
St. Mary's back for more
After 54 straight wins and back-to-back Division 1 state titles, coach Frank Pagliuca and the St. Mary’s girls’ hockey team want more.
- Girls Globe preseason top 20

Great expectations for a new Red Devil team
The run to the Super 8 championship game last March against Catholic Memorial was well-earned and remarkable. But the Burlington High boys' hockey team needs to put those memories in the rearview mirror.
- School roundup St. Mary’s earns record win
- Unity strengthens Hingham Harborwomen on and off the ice
- School roundup Belmont Hill, St. Sebastian reserve Fenway date
- Burlington skaters reload after last year’s Super 8 run
- Veteran Arlington Catholic hockey squad seeks repeat run to state final, different result
- ‘Green’ Canton ice hockey team reloads for Hockomock League title chase

All-Scholastics
Fall 2009 All-Scholastics
Their seasons are over and now is their time to shine. The Boston Globe salutes EMass' best.

Wrestling champ gears up
Isaiah Williams, the reigning 160-pound wrestling champion, is hitting the weights and working hard for another season on the mat.
















