Wednesday, April 3, 2013
The defending Old Colony League Champions, the Barnstable High baseball team rode the efficient opening day pitching of senior James Burke and some collective hot bats en route to a 10-0 win over the visiting Whalers of New Bedford.
Leave it to the lefties. Senior James Burke staged an efficient starting performance on the hill for the Barnstable High nine yesterday afternoon in Hyannis, and got all the offense the Red & White would need when senior co-captain Dylan Morris (3-4, 3 RBI) drove in fellow co-captain Danny Walsh in the bottom of the third to make it 1-0. The score would remain as such until two innings later. Barnstable broke it open versus the visiting New Bedford Whalers (0-2) in the bottom of the fifth inning, scoring nine runs on six hits two walks and a pair of Whaler errors and it all started when Morris led off with a single then stole second base and scored when Jack Harrington reached on an error. Freshman Griffin Burke (1-4, 2 RBI) got his first …
Thursday, January 3, 2013
On the heels of a tough road loss to Taunton last Saturday, the Barnstable High School boys basketball team (3-1) came roaring back against Sandwich in the fourth quarter to pull out the team's third victory of the season.
Never underestimate your opponent. It seemed that the Barnstable High Red Raider boys hoop squad may have done just a bit of that heading into last night's season home opener versus the Sandwich High Blue Knights (2-3), but thanks to a stellar fourth quarter by senior Manny Perry and some opportune late buckets from senior Jason Eddy, the Red & White pulled out a win, 59-39. But until the fourth quarter, it looked like the visiting Sandwich five had the upper hand. The Blue Knights led their hosts 11-8 after a meagre first quarter and held a 25-23 lead at the half. Barnstable pulled out a 38-37 edge after three frames, but in the fourth quarter the Red Raiders turned things up a notch as Perry scored eight of his 10 points late and those …
Saturday, November 10, 2012
The top-ranked Barnstable High football team (9-0) took care of business versus visitor Plymouth North (3-6) last night, defeating the Eagles, 52-12. The Red Raiders now have 13 days off till Turkey Day when archrival Falmouth comes to town.
The Plymouth North Blue Eagles scored first, but the host Barnstable Red Raiders returned that volley with 46 unanswered points in a 52-12 rout last night. The top-ranked Barnstable High squad got two touchdowns each from Tedaro France, James Burke and Justus Chaffee, while France (4 carries/108 yds.) and junior running back Hayden Murphy (11 carries, 124 yards) ran wild at a sparsely-attended W. Leo Shields Memorial Field. Virtually every Red Raider on the roster saw playing time last night as senior quarterback Nick Peabody (6-10, 102 yds., 3 TDs passing) led the Red & White in the first half to a 33-6 advantage, then gave the reins over to junior Kristian Lucashensky who went 4-8 in the air for 85 yards and a pair of touchdown passes. …
Saturday, November 3, 2012
For the first time since 1962, Barnstable High last night captured back-to-back football league championship titles as it defeated the host B-R Trojans in a nailbiting, 27-25, rollercoaster of a game.
Here comes the postseason. With two regular-season games still on the November slate, the top-ranked unbeaten Barnstable High School football team (8-0) defeated the host Bridgewater-Raynham Trojans, 27-25, and in so doing captured its second straight Old Colony League championship and secured a spot in the MIAA playoffs after Thanksgiving. With Lincoln-Sudbury's victory last night over archrival Acton-Boxborough, a win that ensured the Dual County League Large championship for the Warriors, it looks like Barnstable will once again face Lincoln-Sudbury in the playoffs in four weeks. Last year, the Red Raiders lost to L-S in the playoffs. Barnstable has not won back-to-back league titles since 1961 and 1962 under then head coach John "Jack…
Friday, October 5, 2012
Top-ranked Barnstable High School football (4-0) welcomes the feisty New Bedford Whalers to W. Leo Shields Memorial Field Friday night at 6:00 pm.
Most if not all of the players on the Barnstable High School varsity football roster this fall weren't even born the last time the Red Raiders won their first four games of the season. It's been 17 years. Not since the vaunted 1995 season -- replete with a #1 ranking in Eastern Massachusetts and an 11-0 Super Bowl Championship -- have the Red Raiders fared so well on the gridiron. On the heels of a major upset over Everett High last week, the Red & White will seek to avenge last year's 31-17 loss to New Bedford, even though last year's loss proved to be a major turning point in the 2011 campaign. That's because then wide reciever now quarterabck Nick Peabody got his chance to shine once former quarterback D.J. Crook was sidelined with a …
Sunday, September 30, 2012
District 10 American Legion baseball has long been known as the ultra-competitive hotbed of superlative high school-aged summer baseball talent and this week has announced its postseason accolades.
District 10 American Legion Baseball announced its postseason All-District Team today, as well as the establishment of postseason awards, as it strives to add to one of its most successful and competitive seasons in recent memory. In conjunction with its prior establishment of a postseason All-District team, the District 10 board of directors voted last week at its monthly meeting to establish an annual District 10 Most Valuable Player, Pitcher of the Year, Umpire of the Year, Executive of the Year and Coach of the Year. The establishment of the postseason accolades included a four-page ballot which included all District 10 All-District Team, 1st team Selections as the nominees for Most Valuable Player, all 1st team pitchers as the …
Saturday, September 22, 2012
In an early-season battle of a pair of local unbeaten teams, the high-scoring, potent offense of Barnstable (3-0) downed host Sandwich (2-1), 35-14, last night at the Sandwich Pop Warner Field.
When it comes to passing the football, there just aren't many better teams in the state than Barnstable High School's Red Raiders. Senior quarterback Nick Peabody landed himself in the Red Raider record books once again last night, throwing 29-42 for 402 yards, five touchdowns and just his first interception of the season to lead BHS to a 35-14 victory. Peabody's 29 completions was the second most ever in a single game by a Red Raider quarterback. His 398 yards passing marks the second highest yardage total in school history and he has 966 yards passing in just three games, averaging just shy of 321 yards per game. Senior wide receiver Dylan Morris caught just four passes -- three of those for touchdowns and a total of 77 yards, while …
Saturday, September 8, 2012
Barnstable High (1-0) nearly duplicated last year's season-opening rout of Durfee High last night, when it opened the 2012 campaign with a 55-6 thrashing in Fall River, a game replete with the offensive excitement Red Raider fans have grown to love.
Two plays. Two men. Instant victory. In just 19 seconds last night at B.M.C. Durfee High School in Fall River, the Barnstable High School Red Raiders scored all the points they would need to defeat the host Hilltoppers. On the opening kickoff, senior Tedaro France raced downfield 100 yards, was almost tackled at the opposing 15, but squirmed free and netted the first touchdown of the Red Raiders' 2012 campaign. France's 100-yard touchdown on the game's opening kickoff was just the second time in Red Raider history that a kick returner ran for a 100-yard touchdown score. 1970 tri-captain Arthur Pacheco of Centerville held the record all alone for 42 years until last night. Pacheco had a 100-yard kickoff return touchdown on October 17, 1970 …
Tuesday, August 7, 2012
For the first time in the program's 82-year history, Barnstable Post 206 American Legion Baseball is heading today to the Northeast Regionals in Old Orchard Beach Maine to make a bid to get to the American Legion World Series in Shelby, NC.
"Inning by inning." That's been Barnstable Post 206 American Legion Baseball's motto all season long as it marched through the regular season toward its first-ever Massachusetts State Championship in Worcester two weeks ago. And it's the same motto the team will take with it this morning as it boards a coach bus en route to the 2012 American Legion Northeast Regionals in Old Orchard Beach, Maine, according to Manager Sean Walsh, now in his 25th year coaching baseball. "This has been an extraordinarily difficult two-week layoff," Walsh said. "We've done just about everything possible to keep the guys sharp, practicing and playing scrimmages. It's not an easy thing to do on the heels of the waning momentum of winning the state championship…
Friday, March 2, 2012
Some things just weren't meant to be and last night proved that phrase to be true as the high-scoring Catholic Memorial Knights devoured the visiting Barnstable High School boys basketball team, 81-63, in the first round of the Division 1 South Sectionals
Never underestimate the adrenaline produced by an energetic home crowd. Add 20 turnovers to the mix and a debilitating first five minutes of the third quarter, and the Old Colony League champion Red Raiders soon found themselves on the back end of a rout as the host Catholic Memorial Knights ran away with last night's MIAA Division 1 South Sectional first-round affair, 81-63. Outrebounded by the likes of 6'8" junior center Gerard Adams and senior captain Dan Powers, the Red Raiders nevertheless did not lack for hustle; but intermittent spurts of the team chemistry seen earlier in the season, combined with a 43.64% shooting percentage from the field, proved ill-fated for the guests and uplifting to a host accustomed to performing in a …
