Sunday, December 2, 2012
In a match-up whose script seemed written by Hollywood, the top two teams in the state - Barnstable (11-1) and Everett (11-1) - pounded each other to the very end in the MIAA Div. 1A Super Bowl championship at Gillette Stadium this afternoon in Foxboro.
One loss by one point. For the 75 young souls who stood dumbfounded at the end of this afternoon's MIAA Div. 1A Super Bowl championship at Gillette Stadium - the 75 players of the top-ranked Barnstable High School Red Raiders - it seemed too much to swallow. It was a bitter pill to have realized it had just fallen to a team it had beaten earlier in the season, and the loss came when all the marbles were laid bare on the table, a 20-19 defeat that invoked tears and collective looks of disbelief. Number two-ranked Everett High simply outlasted the Red & White on this snowy, biting December afternoon, even in spite of one of the most punishing defensive efforts seen on a Barnstable football field in, perhaps, decades. Barnstable's defense …
Wednesday, November 21, 2012
In the annual celebration of the 120-year-old Barnstable High School football program, as well as its salute to the school's 15-time volleyball state champions, hundreds of fans flocked to Main Street, Hyannis and the village green Wednesday afternoon.
Welcome to a "Sea of Red." Such was the premonitory speech delivered by 2nd year Barnstable High School head coach Chris Whidden Wednesday afternoon, as the BHS Annual Thanksgiving Day Parade culminated on the Hyannis Village Green, much to the delight of hundreds of fans, parents, players and alumni. The annual parade - begun in the 1940s as a salute to BHS football players who returned home as veterans from World War II - vanished from the local scene for three years before returning in 2007, with thanks to the school's football booster club, The Quarterback Club, founded in 1967. Centerville's Judy Lambert, whose son Mark Lambert is a senior wide receiver for the Red & White, chaired the club's parade committee and by all accounts it …
Saturday, October 27, 2012
The Barnstable High School football team (7-0) retained its unbeaten mark this afternoon at W. Leo Shields Memorial Field in Hyannis with a 46-33 barnburner against guest Billerica High (2-6).
This one rattled some nerves. Still ranked atop the Eastern Mass. polls heading into this afternoon's home game versus first-time-ever opponent Billerica High School, the Barnstable Red Raiders seemed a bit rusty at times after a bye week, but thanks to some incredible defensive play by senior captains and linebackers Andrew Ellis and Ryan Litchman in the second half, victory for the home team was assured. With the score tied at 26-26 with 5:08 left in the third quarter, Barnstable found itself with its back against the wall and was forced to punt. Litchman lofted a 50-yard boot to put Billerica at its own 25. As the Indians started to make progress downfield, senior Dakota Perilli registered his first-career sack to bring up a key 3rd and…
